Hi everyone!
Before watching the finale in my local cinema next week - it's fully booked, looking forward to seeing some of you there - I have a handful of lore & detail questions about the show. Sorry if things were asked before, I have not been following or reading much in this subreddit.
Spoilers for episodes 1 to 8.
1) Why now?
The arrival of Pomni seems to kick the plot into motion, but the others have been there for many years already. How comes nobody has noticed Kingers mental state changing in the dark before? Why did Caine only release his ill-fated "exit adventure" now? The others wanted to leave too, right?
2) how much pain do they feel?
I am not sure how much pain sensation the characters actually experience. For me, the big discrepancy shows in the fast food episode. Within just a few minutes, we have Zooble being in immediate pain when touching the hot plate with her spatula arm - and we also get Jax tossing Ragatha into the deep fryer for the lolz. If Zooble has this strong reaction to heat, shouldn't Ragatha be in *absolute agony* and hate Jax afterwards? Instead she seemingly just goes straight to making burgers.
In Episode 8 we then have Caine casually torturing the group, Kinger being shredded and Pomni getting knives stuck all over her body. It doesn't seem to phase then much. So what do you think - how much pain is there?
3) How much can the characters just "will" into action? In the "everybody gets guns" episode, Pomni can just wish/focus on her gun skills, and seemingly that's enough to *have* gun skills. I guess we'll see more of that in the final episode, but what do you think? Are they all just gods without realising it?
4) Jax is friends with Kaufmo, but he doesn't react to the Abstraction at all like he's losing a friend. Is that just his "everything is a joke" attitude or maybe a pilot episode mistake?
5) Why do we never visit the carnival ride part of the Island/Grounds? It was teased in the first episode!
Thanks and see you all in the cinema. 😊