Oh, also, Caine says "paraphernalia".
en.wiktionary.org
"Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity."
He's supposedly not malicious, yet refers to the performers as essentially things. Why? A writing mistake?
It makes me suspicious that he'd use an... objectifying term like that, unless it wasn't meant to refer to the performers. But if not them, then what??
Interesting thing, the lyrics talk about them "day after day" "flying past the moon & the sun" & "we don't know why". Implying something about what the performers do? But I'm not sure what the connection is. Closest I can think of is Icarus's flying TOO CLOSE to the sun, but that's not PAST it nor related to the moon.
Also, during the looping lyrics, you can see the visuals looping, like the bubbles popping in the same sequence. So why is it looping like this? Is there a fault in the software/hardware?
Is it about the passage of time? Achieving stardom?
Jax asks Caine if newcomer Pomni is "one of your NPCs", suggesting Caine makes or controls NPCs? Life Manipulation?
Whoever is managing the circus's censoring has Law Manipulation (I think) & Sound Manipulation, & maybe also Text/Light Manipulation since it seems to be a natural law of the area that profanity is replaced with sound effects, & an attempt to "flip the bird" gets visibly censored in the same way, IIRC.
Though, IMHO, such suggests limitations. Caine did say he can't affect minds.... Anyway, noticeable censoring is still a bit crasser than just preventing the need of censorship at all. Make it so that instead of noticeable censoring, its replaced with softer equivalents?
Ex: "What the [BOING!] is going on?!"->"What the hey is going on?!"/"What in the world is going on?!".
But presumably the censoring is just for comedic effect slightly more than flavor.
Weird thing about Caine's teleportation/"flash step". They seem to be in the circus tent initially, but when they begin moving, are left of the tent, despite moving straight forward the whole way. How did they get left of & outside of the tent??
The lower part of day section of the skybox appears to have a circular section/hole in it, showing more cloudy sky.
More such holes/circles appear in the tent.
The first exit sign seen is red, but the one on the grounds is orange.
Weird that Caine calls the gloinks "humanoid hash browns", but then again, using correct words may not always be that AI's forte.
It's interesting that there's a toy motif. For example, giant potted plants can be seen in the background, as well as giant building blocks, dice, etc.
Gangle states her comedy mask is broken AGAIN. I wonder if the active mask influences Gangle's emotions, or if Gangle just only displays the emotions -like an actor- of the masks she has available. Caine can't affect minds, so if Gangle is a former human like everyone else, what's the reason for her emotional shifts?
There are room doors with x-ed out face icons on them. Former Abstractions, presumably, but it does beg the question of if they'll have significance beyond that? At 9:33 there's even a door with a mannequin's icon. But we see dozens of them later. They're clearly indistinct. On 1 hand, 1 mannequin is later shown bathing alone.... But is the door icon to mean all the mannequins share 1 room?
Pomni already has a room across from Jax's, installed before the performers checked the rooms. Hers isn't Kaufmo's, despite that some fans speculate she's to replace him.
Is Abstraction Kaufmo bashing through a wall calc-able? I suppose it's unclear what the material would be.
That Kinger was interested in an "insect collection" before the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure & calls the Gloink Queen in its den such is interesting. Just foreshadowing?
Another suspicious thing in the dialogue:
Pomni: Hello? Ragatha? That was your name, right?
If I'm not mistaken, Ragatha's name is NEVER said in the entire episode, except in the intro.
Pomni shows up interrupting the intro, so it's ambiguous if she could have seen the intro; So how did she learn Ragatha's name? Is she hiding something?
Or perhaps she entered shortly after seeing the intro with the characters?
It's curious that Abstraction Kaufmo sees everything as so bright. Why? Does light have extreme contrast/glare to the "darkness" of its new form?
The Gloink Queen calls Jax a "rabbitoid". Actual species or just weird terminology from a weird being?
Abstracted Kaufmo has another feat in shattering a barrel of monkeys toy monkey. Unsure of materials. Either we assume pure polygons or plastic, I guess??
The 2nd indoor exit door is also red, not orange.
When Abstracted Kaufmo is attacking the Gloink Queen, it makes cartoony sound effects. Is this more Sound/Law Manipulation via censoring?
An interesting detail is that in 1 of the offices, you can see what looks a lot like 1 of the many paintings found throughout the tent.
More plot relevantly, the computer Pomni sees there is seemingly implied -by her reaction at least- to resemble what she used outside of the digital circus. But given its condition, that would be strange.
Many have noted the C&A in the office could be referencing "Cain & Abel", given the AI's name of Caine. (Hah. The AI's name has "ai" in it.)
Where are Caine & Bubble dining? A building on the grounds, perhaps? The scenery seen beyond the windows seems more detailed than what the circus's island has.
When Caine checks his Wacky Watch, some of the on-screen banner's text says "Exclusive TV Offer", among other text. Are they on television??
I do wonder. Caine said "Oop!" & then did the Corruption curing when Ragatha crawled to him, but also cured Pomni. Did he notice her hand's issue, or does he just "cure all" for some kind of range/criteria?
I wonder why there were exit doors in the tent if Caine was trying to keep unfinished work hidden.
Gangle, Jax did do something. Arguably, he did more than a lot of you!
Some fans Kinger is notably knowledgeable about the mechanics of the digital food, & given he's been there before a lot of the other humans, it makes people wonder if he isn't more than he seems.
I wonder what they're talking about during the dinner.
