THE ENDING Since the show is doing the: "thinly veiled gnosticism" thing I forsee this ending:The circus goers have to "die" to unlock the power to rival Caine. (This alluded to with Kinger saying they should be able to alter the circus.) I'm guessing the theory that they're all the original players and have just been getting reconfigured every time they abstract will be true and as such they'll have to abstract and choose not to "reincarnate" a la the "soul catcher" thing from gnosticism. Perhaps the reason Caine locks them in the basement when they abstract is because otherwise they would figure out that they're gaining the power to do anything.After they figure this out, Caine will be defeated and they'll live the rest of their lives on Minecraft creative mode with infinite cheat codes.I don't forsee them getting out of the circus at all.
>>153465329> thinly veiled gnosticismWhat’s that mean?
>>153465374Nothing. There's at an autist running around /co/ who thinks everything is an allegory for some specific brand of gnosticism.
>>153465374So I'm gnosticism they believe that God is actually the devil and that the devil is either the good guy or that you're the real diety and that you have to break out of this reality by dying or otherwise doing something horrible that you're not supposed to in order to break the illusion. They think after you die you need to turn away from the light at the end of the tunnel and then you'll turn basically into a character like Caine where you can make anything and do anything in an endless space of your own creation.It's a rather popular pagan belief that permeates in Hollywood which is why you see so many episodes where: "your real life was just a dream, you're actually crazy and stuck in an insane asylum" and they have to get out of it by jumping out of a window or something to wake up in the real world.If you look at the plot of the show there's a lot of parrelels with the world they live in being a "dream" i.e. the Circus, Caine being the evil diety with a Christian referenced name, and them being able to gain the power to do anything if they break away from Caine's lies and reality.
>>153465374>>153465730Not either of you, but I got a glimpse of learning about it via "Seance at Blake Manor". The internet part is that they consider Planet Earth a "great prison", i.e., the world we're in right now ,IS Hell. To me, it all comes off as a super cynical
>>153466033>The internet partThe interesting part.
>>153466033Gnosticism covers a wide range of different and contradictory beliefs, of which for whatever reason a certain subset have become trendy on the internet lately. But you may note:>Planet Earth a "great prison", i.e., the world we're in right now ,IS Hellwhen stated as you just did is not all that different from the contemporary Christians.
>>153465730>It's a rather popular pagan belief that permeates in HollywoodStrong>As the first of the four elements, Plastic is the most important elementenergy.
I know what's really gonna happen. So it starts out with the players finding out that they're copies, and they're all bummed out because they think they're stuck in a dying simulation. But then SUDDENLY! It turns out that Scratch was also building sweet robot bodies, and he was actually planning to transfer his mind into one of them, and uploading his mind into the digital realm was just meant to be a temporary solution, and also the robot bodies can shapeshift to look like the players' digital avatars. So they escape the Circus that way, and they find out that their human selves are living their lives and they've gotta sort that shit out, and then Doc Brown shows up in the DeLorean and says they've gotta go BACK TO THE FUTURE with him because something's gotta be done about their kids, and then the Imperial March starts playing and a big Rick & Morty portal opens and Thanos flies in on a Death Star with two smaller Death Stars attached to make it look like Mickey Mouse, and Thanos looks directly at the camera and says "I'm coming for you, Redditors." Then everyone starts jerking each other off and shitting in each other's mouths, Roger Ebert rises from the grave and declares TADC to be the greatest cinematic masterpiece in history, and all of the buses start clapping. Not the people in the buses, no, I must clarify that the buses themselves are clapping. The actual vehicles. They're just standing on their back wheels and slapping their front wheels together like seals.
>>153466993I think they're gonna FUCKZongle or whatever her name is foreshadowed it when she said she wanted to FUCKIt's basically confirmed at this point.
>>153465374NTA, but maladjusted retards are all about gnostic metaphors right now. It appeals to the deluded idea that anything they don't like (normalcy, God, natural order) is part of a fake and gay conspiracy to suppress their true selves. The creator of TADC is an emotional wreck because he watched too much porn and decided he was a girl, so now he's made a show about how everyone's defined by their trauma, we're all trapped in a simulation, and God has to be dead or malicious because the will of an omniscient father should always be predictable and obvious and in constant service to the whims of mortals who couldn't even take the hint when he put a dick in their pants. His suggested solution is radical self-acceptance and le heckin wholesome embracing others, even though any justifications you need to dismiss normality contradict the justifications you'd need for say humans or their feelings have any value. So it's just nihilism for retards who want to eat their cake and have it. It's a shame "degenerate" has become such a meme, because that perfectly describes a person who defines the soul as whatever the most base, easily accessible version of yourself is as an excuse to jack off all day and cry if you aren't being validated.
>>153467198>>153466993All said, at least the OP knows how to use the motherfucking return key.
>>153467198There's a reason why Christians stamped the Gnostic out so fucking hard that we don't know who came up with it
>>153465329>(This alluded to with Kinger saying they should be able to alter the circus.)I don't understand what you're getting at here. Kinger said they just have to concentrate hard to alter the circus, and we've already seen that happen. If they can already do something like summoning Caine's code and changing it from within, then I don't see why they would need to "die" now>Caine will be defeatedI am pretty sure Caine isn't coming back in any meaningful way aside from flashbacks. It's not impossible but his purpose in the story seems to be fulfilled, and now they need to deal with the effects of his absence.
>>153467602We will never know who was the Gnostic Jesus flapped down from heaven to disseminate a bunch of different religious ideas to a bunch of different places that were deemed heresy by the eventually dominant sects, no
>>153467342AmIusingthereturnkeyenoughnow,asshole?
>>153467819Yep!
>>153467821It's unironically better, but that's because it was just ten words vs. a couple hundred. This is not you vs. me, or being some grammar nerd: if you want people to read what you write consider investing in some little formatting. Or continue as you are and 95%+ of people won't read it, makes no difference to me.
>>153468221Yes.
>>153468247Fuck it, I'm not posting it a third time. I fucked it up twice, feel free to make fun of me for that, I deserve it.
>>153468274We can't, context is deleted. Tell us exactly how you fucked up in detail so we can mock you.
