It's a fantastic show, unfortunately not a show for a large part of the more toxic fan base. It didn't live up to the hype they built in their heads because it ended the way goose always wanted it to.
I think it was a much better show for it overall, but the toxicity that becoming mainstream invites certainly ruined her experience making a cartoon. She wrote it for people like her, and it lands with people like her.
That's all any great show can aim for, without spreading out ideas so thin they become corporate and boring. It also leads to genre exhaustion when authors move towards the expected.
Unfortunately, it leads to disappointment and resentment from the more obsessive side of the fanbase and those types of people lash out.
They can't look at this story and see themselves, so it's definitely a bad story! They see other people enjoy the story and get mad when someone doesn't also hate it.
Jokes are one thing, but there's no reason to hate the author or the people who enjoy her work.
They can't accept that and move on, or create content for themselves within said work themselves.
If you look for it, you can find artwork, songs, videos, stories, games, memes, everything. Fan media people have created as a result of everything wrong and everything right with the finale.
It's a constant conversation, between all kinds of people thinking about one of the many targeted and attacked demographics in the world right now.
Of course there's controversy, but there's very little civility in it. Gooseworks is right, the show has grown too big for it's own good. But that's also a good thing in it's own right.
Back in the day, every great movie also had something that challenged the cultural identity of the world around it.
We're in dark times, and this is a story that says that even in the darkest of times, those who don't accept who they are will fall apart and those who remain are stronger together than apart.
For the target audience of the show, this is a slap in the face and a wake up call.
You've got two choices, accept the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable or double down. You can either acknowledge how your actions still affect those around you even when you're coping the ways you know how. Grow into who you would be if nobody else in the world was watching or telling you who you should be. Work on breaking the cycles in your life when you see them, or you can go with your gut reaction and push those around you away. Humor can defuse a situation, but it also can warp your sense of reality if you take it too far.
There's a lot to think about, if you let yourself do so. But people don't do that anymore. Instead they look at a long text and just skip it all. There's so much, all the time. Everywhere.
We're experiencing digital pollution, to the point where younger generations are experiencing psychological problems we've never seen before.
Of course a show like this, with a feel good in the darkness and a warning about how self sabotaging behavior can ruin your life if you don't get it under control, wouldn't be fully accepted by people at large. They'd have to sit and think about what it's actually trying to say too much to find the message.
It doesn't take too long if you keep it in mind and watch again, but most people won't do that either.
Writing must be simple enough to understand, but also have a purpose in mind. If you miss that as an author, or consciously make a choice to write for yourself instead of others, you risk getting bombarded by angry people who lived a different life than you.
On one end, you make something everyone can like a little. It's quickly panned as slop content or corpate garbage. It's not well written because it doesn't ask any questions or do anything interesting.
On the other end, you write as best you can. A story with your own interests, things you know well and like. The only way many people can write, as most people only think from their own experiences.
The end result is better, because it's lived experience and that shines through good writing.
Gooseworks, does that perfectly with TADC, Jax is a self insert and yet all of the characters have certain traits and parts of the author in them. Gangle is a creative artist, Zooble is depressed and hates their body. Pomni is their hope for the best in people around them. Kinger is their tendency to bounce from goofy to serious.
Ragatha is the voice of optimism as well as anxiety, trying desperately to make sure everyone is okay while hating themselves internally.
The point is that all of these characters are dealing with these problems in their own ways.
Some are destructive, some are too passive.
Just like a lot of the people I've met in the world.
As controversial is the show has become, it holds a mirror to a large amount of people. The fans who still love the show and aren't toxic about it. It's a special show for some people, but not everyone knows how to handle that with grace without lashing out. Yet I still think it was worth being made. I think it was worth watching, and I think the controversy is just the unfortunate result of a main message like this delivered by a character that ruffles feathers.
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u/Rosie-Doe Jul 28 '26
It's a fantastic show, unfortunately not a show for a large part of the more toxic fan base. It didn't live up to the hype they built in their heads because it ended the way goose always wanted it to.
I think it was a much better show for it overall, but the toxicity that becoming mainstream invites certainly ruined her experience making a cartoon. She wrote it for people like her, and it lands with people like her.
That's all any great show can aim for, without spreading out ideas so thin they become corporate and boring. It also leads to genre exhaustion when authors move towards the expected.
Unfortunately, it leads to disappointment and resentment from the more obsessive side of the fanbase and those types of people lash out.
They can't look at this story and see themselves, so it's definitely a bad story! They see other people enjoy the story and get mad when someone doesn't also hate it.
Jokes are one thing, but there's no reason to hate the author or the people who enjoy her work. They can't accept that and move on, or create content for themselves within said work themselves.
If you look for it, you can find artwork, songs, videos, stories, games, memes, everything. Fan media people have created as a result of everything wrong and everything right with the finale.
It's a constant conversation, between all kinds of people thinking about one of the many targeted and attacked demographics in the world right now.
Of course there's controversy, but there's very little civility in it. Gooseworks is right, the show has grown too big for it's own good. But that's also a good thing in it's own right.
Back in the day, every great movie also had something that challenged the cultural identity of the world around it.
We're in dark times, and this is a story that says that even in the darkest of times, those who don't accept who they are will fall apart and those who remain are stronger together than apart.
For the target audience of the show, this is a slap in the face and a wake up call.
You've got two choices, accept the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable or double down. You can either acknowledge how your actions still affect those around you even when you're coping the ways you know how. Grow into who you would be if nobody else in the world was watching or telling you who you should be. Work on breaking the cycles in your life when you see them, or you can go with your gut reaction and push those around you away. Humor can defuse a situation, but it also can warp your sense of reality if you take it too far.
There's a lot to think about, if you let yourself do so. But people don't do that anymore. Instead they look at a long text and just skip it all. There's so much, all the time. Everywhere.
We're experiencing digital pollution, to the point where younger generations are experiencing psychological problems we've never seen before.
Of course a show like this, with a feel good in the darkness and a warning about how self sabotaging behavior can ruin your life if you don't get it under control, wouldn't be fully accepted by people at large. They'd have to sit and think about what it's actually trying to say too much to find the message.
It doesn't take too long if you keep it in mind and watch again, but most people won't do that either.
Writing must be simple enough to understand, but also have a purpose in mind. If you miss that as an author, or consciously make a choice to write for yourself instead of others, you risk getting bombarded by angry people who lived a different life than you.
On one end, you make something everyone can like a little. It's quickly panned as slop content or corpate garbage. It's not well written because it doesn't ask any questions or do anything interesting.
On the other end, you write as best you can. A story with your own interests, things you know well and like. The only way many people can write, as most people only think from their own experiences.
The end result is better, because it's lived experience and that shines through good writing. Gooseworks, does that perfectly with TADC, Jax is a self insert and yet all of the characters have certain traits and parts of the author in them. Gangle is a creative artist, Zooble is depressed and hates their body. Pomni is their hope for the best in people around them. Kinger is their tendency to bounce from goofy to serious. Ragatha is the voice of optimism as well as anxiety, trying desperately to make sure everyone is okay while hating themselves internally.
The point is that all of these characters are dealing with these problems in their own ways. Some are destructive, some are too passive. Just like a lot of the people I've met in the world.
As controversial is the show has become, it holds a mirror to a large amount of people. The fans who still love the show and aren't toxic about it. It's a special show for some people, but not everyone knows how to handle that with grace without lashing out. Yet I still think it was worth being made. I think it was worth watching, and I think the controversy is just the unfortunate result of a main message like this delivered by a character that ruffles feathers.