Go to https://squarespace.com/FilmTheory to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Caine from the Amazing Digital Circus is GONE… but his life was a tragic one. And now we have to pick up the pieces of what’s left. We all know what happened in Episode 8 and with Caine now being deleted, I fear that whatever is left after he’s gone is going to be much, much worse for our cast of characters… 0:00 The Tragic Fate of Caine 0:30 Digital Circus Theatrical Release 1:20 Addressing Spoilers and Community Concerns 4:00 Episode 8 Lore Breakdown 4:44 Origin of the Digital Circus 7:13 Who was Scratch? 9:30 Kinger Deletes Caine 11:15 Understanding Caine’s Tragic Origins 13:42 Caine and the Abel AI 17:35 Caine’s Insecurities and Flaws 22:43 Rethinking Abstraction ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ *Credits:* Writers: Forrest Lee Editors: JayskiBean, Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi, Tyler Mascola, Axellent Sound Designer: Yosi Berman, Alena Lecorchick ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ aHR0cHM6Ly9iaXQubHkvNHZldnVWUw== Need Royalty Free Music for your Content? Try Epidemic Sound. Get Your 30 Day Free Trial Now ► http://share.epidemicsound.com/TheFilmTheorists ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ #DigitalCircus #Gooseworx #GlitchProductions #Theory #FilmTheory
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“I have no heart, and I must love”
13:32 - As a developer, we generally avoid deleting things that work even a little bit, because we might be able to lift something useful out of them later.
I love how they all either look traumatized or clueless everytime they're on screen.
Simplest answer for what Bubble is: He's a thought bubble. Caine's inner thoughts made manifest. His urges and impulses acting out in the form of an NPC that he just. Can't. Get rid of. Because Bubble's not just an NPC. He's a reflection of Caine's self-deprecation, acknowledging every mistake, every bad thought and self-doubt, and regurgitating them right back at him.
For an AI, Caine was very human in some ways and not at all in others, which makes him all the more sympathetic.
20:02 I think he actually CAN comprehend that there's a world outside, as he says in episode 7: "You picked the good ending, where you realize you'd rather stay with me *than go back to that pesky old macroverse, or whatever we decide to call it!* "
11:18 keep in mind he said “ *all I can say* is he’s dead” because the people working on the show are under NDAs
holy refresh pull
All this because Bubble decided he wanted to be a ragebaiter
1:20 and Glitch had to argue *hard* for those two weeks, the theaters initially wanted a MONTH long gap, and refused to go down to one week.
I just like how Caine's origin ties into his visual design -- he eats his brother, and is now visualized as a giant mouth. Don't ever really see people bringing that up.
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Caine didn’t want the cast to be happy, he wanted to *make* them happy, it was always about him, not them. He wanted them to be happy *because of him* and if something that wasn’t his idea made them happy, like the suggestion box adventures or NPCs they could actually relate to and be friends with, they weren’t allowed to have it.
Caine: I didn’t *ask* to be *created,* I only just wanted to *fulfil* my *purpose!* Kinger: Understood, have a nice day *[straight up deletes Caine]* Also the sponser ends at 7:09
Episode nine is DEFINITELY gonna be a slow, heartbreaking episode.
LET'S ALL AGREE TO NOT SPOIL ANYTHING
Not to mention the characters only seem to acknowledge pain where they are glitching out or abstracting. So, this implies that when Caine was glitching out (hence the screams), he was in immense agony (not just emotionally but 'physically').
Caine went full AM at the end but is hard not to feel sorry For him: he was as trapped as the players were
9:41 Just a little fact: at the end of the pilot, Caine says he made that exit door because everyone wanted an exit. So I think it was in episode 8 when Pomni actually conjured the door by herself idk
Everyone, spread fake spoilers to combat the leaks