NPCs Can FEEL? The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 2 Breakdown 

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As soon as Pomni said you can come back to the circus with me, I immediately went "Oh he's gonna die."

Caine did mention before the Candy adventure he was using an AI that was 57% more immersive this time around. So perhaps an AI being able to have their psyche shattered is a new thing

Hey, she smiled. *IT’S PROGRESS*

3:15 The village probably didn’t even exist. Think about it, these guys were just made by Caine for this short adventure, he wouldn’t go through the effort of actually making a village. Just like when Pomni and gumigoo glitched into the bottom of the map and saw all the character models, Gumigoo’s mom doesn’t actually even exist, because why would she? As long as her existence is coded into gumigoo’s head, she doesn’t need to be real

I swear when Gummigoo died I literally said, “F&$! you Caine!” There’s going to be a point where Pomni will snap and put this talking dentures with eyes in a fricking chock hold!

I'm glad you showed the clip of Pomni falling out of bed and glitch-bouncing off that block. I hadn't noticed it foreshadowed Pomni using the test room blocks the same way.

The reason the Npcs were so life like was because Cain said he was testing out a new ai to make the adventures better and more immersive

Gonna give my thoughts about the show and characters so far: Even though Zooble got the least amount of screen time, I think that the funeral spoke volumes for their character; they're depressed and angsty towards Caine for forcing these adventures on everyone, but it seems like they intentionally distance themselves from the others so they don't get too attached when they Abstract. Jax, on the other hand, had a "blink and you'll miss it" moment of sadness about the funeral. He's become nihilist and an anarchist as a form of coping with his "imprisonment" in the Digital Circus. Pomni definitely had the most growth and even got a bit of closure with the funeral, realizing that even though she's trapped in the Circus, at least she's not alone. She can also reach out to help others if needed, if she's able to get an NPC into the Circus, she might be able to do a lot to change things and mess with Caine (maybe). Kinger was much more mentally present this time, and even had his own moments of being the voice of reason, to the point where I'm pretty sure he's hiding just how capable he is in this world. He might even be more aware of how certain things work than the others, and I'm really curious to see where that goes. I'm not a fan of the Gangle gag, if she's going to in an episode, I don't want the first thing to be her instantly getting her happy mask broken and then she's sad for the remaining 95% of the runtime. It's already gotten old, and I hope that we either see her fixing her mask or making it more durable. Overall, I loved this episode, and I'm excited to see more.

Caine's stated reason for not allowing npcs into the circus is so he doesn't get the humans and npcs confused, and his face while he says that implies it might have happened before, and it didn't end well.

The gummy gator doing the poses (according to my boyfriend) was references to Pizza Tower. Apparently, doing enough of those poses rebounds attacks(?) And during the funerap part, you can see Jax having a sad emotion go across his face; it's a blink you miss it detail. I feel Jax isn't one to show his real emotions, so he's probably in his room to avoid feeling sad about Cofmo being gone.

4:00 this was actually based on the pizza tower taunting mechanic

Episode 3 is definitely coming much sooner than late this year. The way animated shows work is that episodes are worked on by different teams and divided so that multiple episodes are worked on at once. When a team for a specific part of an episode is finished, they move on. This means that when one episode is released, the next is already partially done. Compare that to this episode, which first needed to be greenlit (probably about a week) Then they needed to sign long term contracts with the voice actors, then they needed to expand the teams, write a whole season of scripts, and finally they could begin by starting from scratch. Now all of that up front cost is complete, and they have a head start, it will be drastically faster than the 6 months it took for this episode.

R.I.P. Gummigoo….

I actually know people who don’t do well at funerals and stuff so I kind of understand why it would be hard for Jax to attend? We do see him sad for a split second before masking it with anger, so maybe he just doesn’t know how to handle those feelings?

RIP GUMBO he didn't deserve it 😔🙏🏾🕊️

Nice to see a breakdown lees than 24 hours after the release. 😅 The episode was definitely did *not* disappoint here. The funeral at the end was especially my favorite.

This episode made Jax seem like WAY worse of a person than the Pilot. Back then he was just a sarcastic prankster, now he's actively manipulative, destructive, and evil.

I like how Jax acts like the leader of the group while Ragitha is the voice of reason….

I feel bad for the gummy shark when he says he can't remember his mom's face it made me realize he thought everything was real he didn't know nothing was real

just want to say this is the first video of yours I watched and it was really good. Your scripting, voice, references, and editing are all on point. keep up the good work

The scene where jax offers the fudge monster the key is a reference to episode 1 where he has the key to kaufmos room I wonder if that will have any plot significance later down the line or at least it’s a running gag

This was a very nice Continuation, i really appreciated the Pizza Tower Reference with the Purple Gummigator, had the same sound effect too. Anyway, i really find it interesting how Jax wasn’t featured amongst the Hands grabbing Pomni, it could just be due to how Jax wasn’t at the Funeral, but considering what the curators has said about him, i think it’s a detail worth keeping in mind.

i don’t think gumigoo died he just got reset back to his world

Absolutely love this episode, was very bittersweet the entire time even if they’re supposed to be in a sweet candy kingdom lol. Also interesting is I have seen and been informed some are making theories on if any of the main characters(besides Pomni for obvious reason) is actually an NPC that snuck their way into the circus. This came from Caine’s scene about worrying of getting NPCs and humans mix up before cutting to him looking disturb(like it happened before). Which if true, then maybe some of the past humans didn’t “die” from abstracting..

Fun fact: the poses is that the purple crocodile were doing are based from the game pizza tower

4:00 this is actually a reference to pizza tower, one of his poses is like the protagonist of the game's (the one laying sideways), the sound and white pop effect are present in both versions.

the get out reference hit me like a truck man

My idea or prediction is that maybe Caine is able to store NPCs' memories, and switch their memories to fit the "adventures' narratives". I also believe that Caine not only makes "adventures" for a group, he should also be able to make "solo adventures" (Which are for just one of the humans in the digital circus instead of more than one). And Also, I believe that it should be possible (maybe in future episodes) that Caine could do "special solo adventure request events", a special events where humans in digital circus get a chance to request what kind of adventures they would like to have (usually being small adventures), (I am sure that Jax would request for an adventure with an over-the-top war) Those are just my opinions (and theories)

4:02 it’s a refrence to a game called “Pizza tower” where you can do a move called taunting to avoid damage. I viewed it as him doing it to avoid hitting the rocks on the ground

8:10 I didn't even notice that those hands belonged to her friends. I just saw the colors and assumed it was Kaufmo's hand. I have no idea what sort of direction that would take the story, but I now know that's not what they're going for.

Something that I feel like went through most of the fandom’s head is that earlier in the episode Cain said that he’s experimenting with a new A.I in this adventure, which could easily explain why Gummigoo is all that aware of his reality, Gummigoo isn’t a normal NPC like the mannequins he is the new A.I

Did anyone else notice that the chest piece of Zooble is different in this episode? In the pilot, it was a blue and white hoop, and in this episode, it was a black and white striped square. My best guess is that it, the black and white striped square, was to symbolize a formal outfit for a funeral, like at the end of the episode.

due to that there is a diffrence inbetwen "npcs" and non "npcs", i think it means that the main cast is tecnicaly made of playable carecters, so that means that its not just a simulation, its a game, a video game, that you can play and take control of.

Like gooseworx did say on tumblr that Zooble will become active in episodes 3-9

nice breakdown

I mean they are working on 2 or more episodes at the same time proven by the sneak peeks with the haunted mansion and stuff so I expect it being this year maybe again in 6 months or sooner on a good day

there are so many nods in this episode to previously animated toy themed movies. The chocolate monster being a clear reference to other monster from that 70s animated raggedy Ann Musical, Pomni falling down the black hole reminds me of Woodys nightmare in toy story two where Andy dosnt want to play with woody anymore, and my personal favorite is when that gumi australian gator just gives up on life, sits down looking down at the ground knowing that his reality is just shattered. Just like buzz light year in toy story 1. Where Buzz was just sitting in the same position as the gator in cids room with a rocket strapped to his back now knowing he is a toy and his space ranger reality is shattered. This second episode is so good.

"Running gag" that I will keep pointing out because I'm not happy woth it.

0:02 Yep, her mask is made out of Kenny, I'm sure.

Watching this episode yesterday has been amazing plus it's nice seeing Pomni being friends with Gummigoo and made him feeling better, well it was short lived because Caine killed him when they got back to the circus. Gummigoo and the Candy Princess are now my new favorite characters in The Amazing Digital Circus plus you can easily feel bad for Pomni after she had that nightmare in the beginning of the episode.🤩🥺

0:24 that's exactly what I thought when I first saw this

SOMEONE NEEDS TO MAKE MORE DIGITAL CIRCUS VIEDEOS - WE NEED MORE HYPE NOW

By the way, Loolilalu is also austrailian, not just the bandits but the fudge and the manequins are not.

Gonna be honest, I watched this with a group of friends and we all immediately called that Caine would just unceremoniously delete him.

The crock stroking poses is actually a pizza tower reference! As you can also hear the noises it makes when you taunt

the stunt animation the purple lizard was doing is a pizza tower reference

4:01 if you wanna know the true reference, it is from pizza tower Edit: also they’ve already hinted that they have already animated a bit of the next couple episodes

I really liked this episode

the first one IS a pilot, to test over all reception so they wouldnt of had anything done anything beyond episode 1 so episode 3 will be a lot sooner than how long episode 2 took

I wonder if the Princess is going to enact revenge on the Crew for unleashing the Fudge monster on them.

TBH Caine said that the new AI would be 57 or something else times more immersive which when we see all the doors the AI seemed to have evolved a lot when Caine Updates it

I was genuinely moved by Gummigoo and pommis scenes, idk but to me the concept of an npc gaining awareness is so sick and it was so well done too, even know i knew it was too good to be true, at time (moments before you know what) I was extremely excited to see where his character was going to go, but well I guess I’ll have to use my imagination for that lmao.

Episode 3 will most likely come out this year. Give Kinger a shotgun! Give Kinger a shotgun!

7:56 I feel like jax does care for kalfom "( dont know how to spell his name) because he does seem a bit sad when being told to join, but instantly changes his mood. maybe he just wants people to think his the rude jerk of the group?

Maybe Jax doesn’t like dealing with emotions, he doesn’t care about right and wrong, probably because he’s desensitized in his own way. He doesn’t want to go to the funeral, probably because he doesn’t want to feel his emotions. He’s smart but not a good person, he knows how to negotiate to say the least.

Fun fact: this scene 3:25 of Pomni stretching her arms is more of a reference to Scrat at the end of the climax in the Blue Sky Studios third movie "Ice Age 2", which makes more of a coincidence as (Kevin Temmer) the lead animator of "The Amazing Digital Circus" did work at Blue Sky Studios as a animator for Ice Age 5, Ferdinand and Spies in Disguise.🤩🤯 Pretty cool, right? Yeah he only work at 3 movies, but the sad thing is after Disney bought Fox before the pandemic happen, Disney shutdown Blue Sky Studios. RIP Blue Sky Studios 😢😔 1987-2021

I feel like at some point soon we will see an episode where Jax realises the NPC he kills are sentient, and will have a mental breakdown

I feel like Jax was a person forced into the Digital Circus, Pomni being more a curious person who tried it. But yeah, Gummi did not deserve what happened to him, I mean there WERE NPCs in the Circus itself, and the faceless human models were there, alongside one door having the human model on it. So for NPCs to not be there, they sure are reused a lot, to be considered 'not being where they shouldn't be' Overall, an okay episode, but truly, the depths that the game is run by an AI, seems to be... in question since Caine has just referenced AI usage, as if he ISN'T one? He could have said, 'I added more AI' rather than 'using AI'? Unless he was simulating himself as not an AI, or he is a Human who has more control over the Digital Circus.

Gummigoo finding out he's an npc gave me major westworld vibes like when hosts find out they're hosts...

I’m calling Ragatha is the closest to abstracting

R.I.P Gummigoo, you were too good for this series. You’ll be missed

just realized that the beginning with the letter block was a Chekov's gun with the hitbox

4:01 I think this was a reference to SpongeBob showing Squidward how to blow a bubble.

well in programming abstraction is it using bits and peices of methods or classes. so Couldn't it be possible that abstraction grants Caine new methods or information to make the Ai's better. mixing and matching methods from each abstraction. and when classes are abstract that cannot be created as objects or called by a constructor. buuut abstracts can be used in other classes to reduce work and make things easier and faster, with some stuff being reworked in the child class.

4:00 it was a pizza tower reference

0:01 Whhhhhy why dose Gangle exist if she gonna keep getting treated like that. And that's the second time her mask breaks.

Caine biting the curb 4k no blur background

i think the croc pose is a reference to the pizza tower game

4:00 that was a pizza tower refrentch lol

It's clearly pizza tower references or something like that.

Zooble's leg is different. I felt like nobody noticed that.

Australian gummy crocodiles So, instead of Crocodile Dundee, they're Crocodile Gummies! WAKA! WAKA

Oh yeah, if it wasn't clear the candy trucks are definitely one big Mad Max reference.

THE PURPLE ONES TRICKS IS PIZZA TOWER REFERENCE!

That part where cain mentions if he doesnt know what would happen if he messed up people with npc has me concerned. If the NPCs dont evenknow they are NPCs, whose to say that pomni and the crew arent NPCs of the circus that cain has made to be the players of a game abandoned by people ling ago. They cant remember their names just like gummigoo cant remember his moms face. It never existed.

4:00 I think it more of the taunt from the pizza tower game.

Yeah this ep was dark considering its only the second ep. Rip gummigo

I think gomigoo will remeber when he comes back.

4:05 pizza tower reference

Mark, the purple croc doing all those poses is actually a pizza tower reference. Idk how a lot of people miss that since pizza tower is VERY popular

If you change this video to 0.25 speed at 8:12 you'll see Pomni thinking about falling into abstracting and almost everyone help her EXCEPT FOR JAX!!!!

Amazing :D

New ones can that new ai is "even more immersive"

the tricks the lizard did a a reference to pizza tower

Purple croc is a Pizza Tower reference.

Caine straight up is the villain and he doesn’t even know it

This was Based of Pizza Tower you can Taunt in the Game and yes that's a Refrence 4:00

Gummigoo, the gator dude, was using an Ai that caine developed, likely to make a challenging antagonist. The reality is that gummigoo IS that ai, not the gator. The gator was a model that caine designed. Its likely that gummigoo will appear sooner than you think but operating through another model as another character.... but considering how intelligent and smart he was then its possible he might grow stronger as an ai. ESsentailly a rogue ai developed by a rogue ai.

They were doing A poses

Can you do next top 10 strongest character of total drama pls pls pls pls pls

Gangle dint talk to pomni

Oh come on 0:04

Wow

Im only half way through this video but based on how Gummingo reacted to finding out he was an NPC why does Cane even need humans? Npcs seem to have a similar range of emotions. Is Cane human to some extent and so he needs human connection and thats why?

Cane said that ai is 50x times better or something like that this is why ai had emostians problobly

If the npc are 50+ percent more immersive, what if the candy people come back for revenge after what jacks did

2:55 he should not say jesus

What if he was a gummy bear

4:57 no that is an A pose not a T pose