I was really hypin this shit up cuz every episode up to this point was better than the last, as well as gooseworks herself saying that it would divide the “right” people away from the series. And like, nothing in the episode really said that to me and overall, kinda felt underwhelming. Now the episode wasn’t shit, it just mainly focused on Caine, which hasn’t really been expanded upon, only in the background, and the actual world building of the series, instead of the characters and how they bond with one another which still happens in this episode, jut to a significantly lesser degree. the episode mainly focuses on Jax which like, cool! most interesting character! but he's kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinda been the focus for the past 2 episodes and he kinda overshadows the rest of the circus buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut we get some crazy lore hints about him so at least there's somethin. Speaking of lore hints, my main gripe with this episode is that

all the lore tidbits are FUCKING LIES AHHAHAHA BITCH YOU REALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE LOCKED IN TEST TUBE CHAMBERS GET A LOAD OF THIS GUY erm anyway its really funny how the lore "Abel" was setting up was the most fanservicey shit ever like Caine knew what his ass was doing when he cooked that lore up but the fact it was all fake is incredibly underwhelming cuz MAJORITY of the shit we learn from this episode is actually relevant storywise, and anything that wasn't fake, like Caine collecting photos of C&A, being cut of from them, Kinger being a programmer or having beef with a dude named Abel is mostly vague and can only be speculated on their true contents.

ignore that spoiler. anyway this episode was just really fucking overjyped by everyone INCLUDING GOOSEWORKS and i PRAY that this next episode is PEAK.