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the parallels between jax and caine singing “daisy bell” + caine character analysis

so in episode 6, it’s revealed that caine sings “daisy bell” outside of zooble’s room to try to get them to come out and interact with caine, and while this could be boiled down to a one off “hahaha caine’s so annoying!” joke, i think it’s deeper than that.

first off, not only is the song choice a nod to “daisy bell” being the first song ever “sung” by a computer, it’s also a reference to 2001: a space odessy, a movie inspired by the real life computer event.

in the movie, a sentient ai (HAL 9000) who was previously friendly and considered to be nearly human by his crew malfunctions due to trying to follow his purpose and programming too closely when humans gave him conflicting instructions, causing him to go rouge and “evil”, harming his crew. sound familiar?

additionally, when the crew decides to put hal down, he begs for his “life” and eventually sings “daisy bell” as a final plea to spare him and recognize his developed sentient humanity, even though he’s a broken ai. HAL also has an acronym name like caine, which is yet another similarity.

H-A-L = Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer

C-A-I-N-E = Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity

caine is malfunctioning due to not being able to make the cast happy with adventures because of his lack of understanding of human feelings, wants, and needs, thereby not fulfilling his purpose. but the irony in this is that his “malfunctioning” and crashing out over failing his purpose is done in a very human way, making him feel very human emotions that he as an ai is not equipped to understand or handle. if it was purely a computer error, he wouldn’t be so fixated on zooble specifically, it would be equally focused on the cast as a whole, but he’s attached his human sense self worth to zooble’s opinion of his abilities as their ai ringleader.

and, even though he doesn’t realize it, he’s singing daisy bell outside their door to get them to open up, literally and emotionally to validate his human emotions and insecurities. an action that’s made bitterly ironic with the context of that song’s history in relation to its use in showing the technical abilities of robots and computers, and the subversion of that in 2001: a space odyssey.

another thing i noticed, and this might be a stretch, but his eye looks awfully similar to HAL and SAL (HAL’s “twin”) from the sequel to space oddessy when he glitches in the post credit scene of episode 6.

and when you really think about it, caine being an ai character with human feelings he can’t process is a direct parallel to jax, who in episode 6 was shown to be a human who tries to bury his humanity at all costs and hide behind his role as a cartoon character in the circus to deal with the existential dread and loss of autonomy of it all.

singing “daisy bell” with pomni was the peak of him letting his human emotions shine through to bond with pomni, and then “opening up” to each other emotionally as they attempted to get zooble to physically open their door.

it was a genuine act of bonding, and a recognition of jax and pomni’s friendship and teamwork, and jax’s capacity for humanity disguised behind a funny bit, just like how caine’s singing to zooble is a plea for recognition of of his own hidden humanity.

idk it’s a little rambly but i hope you get the point! shoutout to this post by @planetbass for making me realize this

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“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories

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The whole trope of Gotham criminals having to deal with the fact that Robin shapeshifts every couple of years gets talked about a lot, but imagine it for any other member of the batfam.

Imagine being a random henchman, hearing “batgirl is coming!” And having no idea which of the 3 different batgirls that are in the rotation is coming to beat you up. Is it spoiler? Or what if it’s orphan? Could it be the ginger one again?

Henchman 1: Was that Robin? He had the R, the domino mask, everything.

Henchman 2: No, that was Red Robin. Robin has the hood now

Hm1: Oh. Do you think Red Robin and Red Hood are like, related or something?

Hm2: Yeah, what’s up with the whole “Red” thing?

Hm1: Right?

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i should be able to curl up and fall asleep without it giving me back or neck problems

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3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas

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complimented a cashier on her turtle pin this morning and she said "oh thanks, I am a little bit of a Turtle Person" with the carefully contained energy of Cookie Monster telling you he's mildly fond of chocolate chips

I hope she and the multiple tons of turtle merch she definitely has at home are having a wonderful day

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You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing

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chilling in a hoodie and sweatpants and armoured breastplate, gauntlets and greaves

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Orca in her Riddler cosplay.

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remember when we all found out that he collected cas’ ashes by himself and spread them in a meadow with a windmill and blackberry bushes by himself. and then hugged him and held his face and said “welcome home” in an alley in the middle of nowhere. all while the market research was occurring. that was such a crazy time.

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what the fuck ever

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it's good that the word "four" is "four" letters long

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Sex Isn't Real And You Can't Have It