All this discussion regarding wether or not the cast will get out or how they'd be alive after however much time they've spent inside the circus makes me realize that some people really aren't used to 'endless fall' scenarios in their fiction, these people don't think you can have good situations while going through a bad life, that the only way to have a good end is to succeed in getting out of the bad place and that's it when for the majority of people in similar situations that is never the case and they never get out at all. Idk