- Episode 2 the adventure was a good introduction, get back the stolen truck in this mad max parody. The cast is shoved in a truck and forced to interact and TRY to work together to complete the mission.
- Episode 3 was ok, A group was doing most of the work while B group just had a tea party.
- Episode 4 is when Gooseworks gives up, just get through a shift as a fast food worker which most of the cast just fuck around until the time runs out. It isn't like Caine gave them a goal to work towards like sell 1,000,000 burgers so they actually need plan and work together (and also emphasize the monotony of service work).
- Episode 5, again none of the adventures really matter, it isn't like they actually need to win the softball game so it doesn't matter that Ragatha likes softball and teaches Gangle how to pitch.
- Episode 6, the battle royal thing was ok, but needed stakes.
- Episode 7, Characters do nothing while an NPC does most of the work helping them escape, get mad when thing that seems too good to be true was too good to be true.
One of the more legitimately confounding things and wasted potential about this show is how just...relatively passive and non-decisive everyone is, even the more center-stage characters like Pomni and Jax didn't completely escape this, this is a story, people should do things that actively progress it, they could have made a point on how the circus was actively sucking the fun out of their life to the point they barely care anymore, but they didn't really go with that as a forefront issue surrounding the cast.
I'm personally not against the concept of "therapy sessions" like a lot of people in here apparently are, the real problem is the show just constantly uses the trope as a crutch for character development, as it makes it possible to do all of that in just a couple scenes lasting a few minutes, but that's not how naturalistic and believable character development works, you have to build it up slowly, and deliberately, flesh out who the character in question is, you know, have them function like a real person, you
CANNOT rush character development, people just don't work like that, otherwise the dramatic story you're trying to tell just falls apart.
We see very little of how the cast actually functions as a social network, make all the headcanons all we want, but what we see in the show isn't very much, Jax is a prick, Ragatha feels insecure and isolated, Kinger is kooky, and Gangle and Zooble just kind of there.
Meticulously flesh out the cast first, have them actually struggle together under the weight of the circus and treat each other as something like close friends, and then you can have your therapy sessions, now your big dramatic climaxes work for real, as we, the audience have seen how these people have worked together, we have experienced alongside the cast the trials and tribulations the story has given to them.
If you're going to try actual drama and character arcs, please, PLEASE fucking commit to it, don't make half-measures.
