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- 25 de Feb, 2024
I'm fine with the cast being unable to escape.
I'm fine with the show not going full lore-mode.
I'm even fine with the show turning out to be sappy melodrama.
What I don't like is the show being incredibly sloppy about what it's trying to do, you pointed out the trauma dumping, trauma dumping by in on itself is NOT a bad trope, you just have to remember that it should be used sparingly as it's often used for an emotional climax, it has to be slowly, and meticulously built upon, and so when it happens, it makes your character feel like a real human being.
The Digital Circus does not do this for most of the characters, I'd like to bring the spotlight on one character, Ragatha, the way she was treated perfectly demonstrates how half-baked the character writing for this character-driven show is, after 4 episodes of being the happy one, she unexpectedly trauma dumps about her past, how her mother was a prick, and that's why she became the person we know now, completely unprompted, and apparently for the first time as everyone else is just as shocked, and then next episode, she breaks down in front of Kinger about how she feels so worthless and all that, and he cheers her up one one speech, and she basically fine from that point on, even fixing her friendship with Pomni offscreen, and they are suposedly best friends now by the finale.
Do you see what the problem is?, it's very unnatural character development, what should have been fleshing her out and making her feel like a real human, just winds up making her a rather weird and plastic person, and that's the worst thing you can do in a character-driven story, Gangle and Zooble also fall victim into this, while Pomni and Jax don't really have this issue on account of being the MCs, but their issues are entirely different.
