Okay so I finally saw the completed English finale and can start reading all the spoiler commentary i've been skipping over. And give my unwanted opinion like every other autist after seeing this.
It was a flaming bag of ass. It absolutely turned it's back on it's source, made the 'big reveal' of the fact that they are all brainscans in THE most anti-climactic manner possible, with Kinger just blurting it out and everyone getting the sads over it.
Jax abstracting off screen was fucking weaksauce, though the walk through his mind with Pomni was very well done. Hideki Anno could take lessons from it, but it went on too long and the whole thing became The Jax Story, and considering I found him among the less interesting characters of the crew I was getting bored. There was so little action, the thing that sold so many on the first 3 episodes of the show and all the big teased 'secrets' were either ignored or came to nothing.
C&A? How did they start? How did they shut down? Why is the VR supercomputer that powers the circus and contains the incredibly complex neural mappings of 10 or 12 humans (counting abstractions) and a learning AI system still running? Don't know.
Who'se paying the fucking power bill and why has no one taken over the IPs and offices of C&A? Don't know.
What's the Void REALLY? How does Caine getting 'deleted' just banished him there where he does some Superman 3 shit and kills his evil side? Don't know.
How did the abstractions get out of the cellar? Why is no one concerned about them ever again after a few minutes? don't know!
How did all these diverse humans, one of which was hospitalized at the time, end up in the C&A network to be brain-scanned besides the original devs? DON'T KNOW SO DON'T FUCKING ASK!
Overall it had tons of potential to explore a second 'season' of TADC going into these deeper mysteries with a sane Caine facilitating the hunt and new threats coming from either outside or code gone rogue, explore the many unused areas outside of the Big Top around the circus, set up a REAL story finale, instead it was a giant 'wrap up the story' attempt at a story that really wasn't ready to be wrapped up because Goose was a faggot and didn't want to play any more, so it turned into the Jax Therapy Show along with reveals of who their RL identities were with no real payoff at all. Oh, and Caine is sane now and the circus is nice and everyone is in touch with their feelies, and somehow a ribbon and a bric-a-brac toyset are having sex.
ENDUT! HECH HOCH!
I am disappoint, Kiwifams.