The ending of the first episode was also the last time we got any decent music out of the series.
I can't believe how hard the soundtrack just plummeted off a cliff after the pilot.
The soundtrack did peter out a bit after the pilot. I do remember some of the jazzier tracks during the guns episode, and the music during Caine's crash out where he tortures them all personally was on-point.
Turnout at my theater was mostly teenagers, with a few twenty somethings, and maybe one fat balding guy in his late 30's. Before the main attraction there were a few previews for upcoming Fathom Events screenings,in the middle of which also contained an advertisement for GLITCH-related merch at Hot Topic.
A couple of cosplayers, including a really good Kinger cosplay with a fully modeled helmet of Kinger's head. Nobody stank as far as my nose could tell, and for the most part everyone was well-behaved. (There were a couple of teenage girls freaking out over the Gangle and Zooble scenes, but they were silenced by an equally loud bunch of teenage girls clearly fed up with them.
) At the end there were a couple of freakouts over the merch advertisements, but then I heard one kid yell out "THE AURAFARMING!" when a statuette of Jax came on-screen, so I'm choosing to believe that most of the teens there were taking the piss out of it? If nothing else, I'm glad this theatrical release gave TADC fans a place to meet up and socialize, considering how anti-social most people act these days.
As for the episode itself? Having now watched it with English voice acting I think Michael Kovak displayed excellent range with Jax in the flashback sequences. You can hear the exact moment in his performance where he stops sounding like a normal person and starts putting on the Jax voice he used in every episode up to this point. Aside from that, and Alex Rochon's performance as Caine, my opinions are unchanged: I still feel like it was a lackluster way to end the series. Almost none of the character moments feel earned, and it retroactively casts the series in a worse light knowing how the show ends now.
One last thing that sticks out to me, since I re-watched the first episode through Josh's Gumroad video: when Kaufmo abstracts, Ragatha says something to Pomni along the lines of "Wait, there still might be time to fix this if we get Caine!" Why would she say that? She knows that abstractions are permanent, and all Caine does is just tput them in the cellar, but in the finale Pomni is able to have a full conversation with Jax, post-abstraction, and it almost looked like he was about to un-abstract? So is abstraction permanent or not? I'm sure a lot of other flaws with the writing will become clearer now that the show's over. Personally, I'm more interested to see where Gooseworks goes from here, and if the TADC fanbase will jump onboard the next Gooseworks-branded show, devolve into in-fighting, or quietly distance themselves from this show altogether.
