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🗓️ 18 January 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello, internet, welcome to film theory. The show that's here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, mind-bending theories you can imagine. |
0:26.6 | In case you missed our last theory on the Amazing Digital Circus, the long and short of it is that we believe that the circus here isn't exactly what it appears to be. |
0:34.6 | Instead of some futuristic, fully immersive experience, we believe that it's actually a VR video game from the 1990s, |
0:40.3 | one that copies the brains of anyone who puts on the headset. |
0:44.3 | It then turns that copy into a digital character to go on adventures throughout the circus. |
0:48.3 | So the people trapped in this world looking for an exit, they're not actually people, just digital copies of their consciousnesses, their personalities. That's why we repeatedly see workstations of |
0:58.4 | VR headsets in the first episode, but with no one actually wearing the |
1:02.0 | headsets. And our theories didn't stop there. We continued by saying that POMNI is |
1:05.6 | either the creator of the game or an employee at the development studio making the |
1:09.5 | game as evidenced by our mental breakdown when seeing those work desks. |
1:12.6 | And while this is the direction that I still believe the series is headed for... |
1:15.6 | How about we talk about something else? |
1:17.6 | You see, there's still a ton to dig into here with the digital circus. |
1:20.6 | Well sure, those initial theories are the ones that I think are the most likely and the most intentional. |
1:24.6 | It's once to stretch a bit further out that some of the truly fun, wacky ideas really start to develop. Are they right? Yeah, probably not. Are they interesting and |
1:33.0 | fun? Absolutely. And therein lies the beauty of theory crafting. For example, last time I briefly |
1:39.0 | tossed out a bit of wild speculation that the digital circus may have itself some biblical connections. |
1:43.9 | In this brief scene exploring the backrooms of the company who seemingly created the circus, |
1:48.0 | we see the initials C and A painted onto the wall. |
1:51.0 | C made me immediately connect things back to our lovable AI ringleader Cain, |
1:55.0 | a guy who's probably the most in control of this entire situation. |
1:58.0 | And if you tend to see the name Cain partnered with the initial A in in any sort of pop cultural reference, the first immediate jump is going to be to the |
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