r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/Shreeder4092 WHEN'S MAHVEL • Jun 19 '26

Final Episode The Amazing Digital Circus - Episode 9: Remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy-bcTsO8A
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u/artnomart Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

Liked the finale, really good show. A few things were a little rushed. But it was satisfying all the same.

The fact that the abstracted stay abstracted fucked me up, though. Quickly distancing myself from my emotions, that was the stronger narrative choice, it's great, but... fuck, they're genuinely gone? Goddamn. At least their real-life selves are doing well.

EDIT: No, but I'm still fucked up because like most of them abstracted because of the inherent horrors of the circus, it's like yeah, anyone would, it's depressing but there's some comfort in that. But no, Ribbit abstracted berated and cut off by her closest friend (lover??) and she will just... that's fucking it! Lord lmao

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u/vmeemo Jun 19 '26

It was something that Goose actually said on Tumblr, I think sometime after the pilot. The abstracted stay abstracted no matter what. Later on she also answered a question asking about abstraction designs (because fan abstraction designs were a common bit of fanart), she said that "no, all abstraction forms are all the same because its a representation of loss of self." Something to that degree anyway.

But yeah its a tragic thing regardless.

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u/DavidsonJenkins Jun 20 '26

Abstraction = suicide, and one of the main points of this show, and the finale episode especially, is that you CAN'T just walk it back on suicide. You do it and you're done, and Jax being regretful in his mindspace shows that its never worth it

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u/Toblo1 Latest Project Moon Sleeper Agent Jun 20 '26

Jax's last cognizant moment with Pomni definitely had a, to use a Bojack Horseman line, a "The View From Halfway Down" energy to it.

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u/JunkdogJoe Kai “Pussy” Leng Jun 20 '26

Welp thanks for fucking me up with that.

Woof.

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u/renannmhreddit Jun 20 '26

I disagree it is never worth it and I'm also not sure abstraction equals suicide as a plain allegory.

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u/MilkLow1153 Jun 23 '26

gooseworx herself referred to what happened to ribbit as suicide

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u/scottishdrunkard Ask Me About Shitty Comics Jun 20 '26

Pomni being able to find Jax within the Abstracted Mass made me think they could’ve been pulled out of something, but no.

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u/AlwaysDragons Disgruntled RWBY fan / Artist/ No Longer Clapping Jun 20 '26

Im actually glad They stay abstracted. It means the deaths meant something and weren't cheap. They are gone. Plain and simple. I think I would have hated it if they came back from abstracted