i enjoyed it at a 9/10 level.
I can see how you're thinking on the lack of brevity but i disagree. With the depth of history and emotion it's trying to convey it could easily have had even more time.
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I was a big fan, Jax's story and their very non-traditional trans story pulled it together for me.
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I think of it as 7/10. The pacing of the episode was alright and did not make me impatient to get to the end; in fact, I'd argue it should've been longer to elaborate on Caine's perspective in the second half of the story. I believe the ending could've been better but it's still a good compromise the way it finished on a positive note.
My biggest concern is how the revival of Caine made the impact of his death in the last episode meaningless.
As a tragedy enjoyer, I loved that the circus and abstractions weren't solved, just coped with and the characters grew from them.
It was alright. Not bad, not great. But your post reads as unusually condescending in a way that prevents open discussion, so I'll have to downvote
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It was fine. I cried a bit. I'm used to finales being a full letdown, so this was actually a pleasant surprise.
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I wish that there had been more elaboration on the blue AI, its nature, and the impact their merger had on Caine.
I called the "they're 'just' scans and can't leave" realization from the first episode, but also harbored the incorrect theory that Pomni was somehow a manifestation of the blue AI, so you win some, lose some.
I really disliked it because Jax is insufferable and the episode being fully focused on him only made him more so. The reduced pomni to coddling an abuser while giving him a lackluster backstory. Everybody else got sidelined and the lore just got practically ignored. Huge disappointment to me.
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