Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Bard The 5th LW]

I can't really envision Hussie milking THAT MUCH cash out of a series that hasn't been updated in 6 months, merchandizing aside. Like, the dude's obviously bad with time, but I envision actually ending, call me an optimist. I'm pretty interested in seeing what the game will look like too.

[POS Industries]

I still don't really think the ever increasing probability of Homestuck never getting another update is a milking of the series' financial potential as much as it is that Hussie just has a bunch of other shit to work on that he actually DOES get paid for, on top of the fact that I'm not entirely convinced that even he knows where he wants to go with the story and that none of the current plot threads are even close to any sort of satisfying resolution.

To bring the story to a proper ending would require far too much work to be wrapped up in a single update like he's been claiming he'll do, so it will either be a year or two down the road that we'd get the rest of the story dropped on us that would take at least a week to read through on a binge or it will be a rushed piece of garbage that will ruin what's left of whatever goodwill the first four acts might have bought from the readers.

It's just better to presume the comic's stopped forever than expect either likely outcome.

"Paradox Space" is totally a cash in to keep the franchise running and maintain interest in hoodies and calenders or whatever, though.

[Loyal]

on top of the fact that I'm not entirely convinced that even he knows where he wants to go with the story and that none of the current plot threads are even close to any sort of satisfying resolution.

Yeah, when he first announced the hiatus and the fact that the final, mega-update would resolve everything in the story in one go, you immediately knew that's some first-class bullshit.

Insofar as I'm thinking about Homestuck at all these days (there isn't even anything entertaining coming out of the fandom anymore), I'm half expecting a feature-length film that somehow doubles the number of plot threads lying around.

[Locke cole]

When it was announced that the next update would be the last, I made two assumptions. First, that the update will dwarf everything else in the comic in sheer size (and cause that entire sector of the internet to break for at least a week from the traffic), and that it will, consequently, take so long to come out that I'll have forgotten what updates were like by the time it does.

So I've just been pursuing other things in the time since then. I'll come back to Homestuck when the game comes out, or when I hear a great wailing and gnashing of teeth to signify the ending update.

[Overcast]

I've had about the same reaction, I'm not nearly so cynical, but then it helps that I decided to stop reading Homestuck until it was finished like three years ago. I made the choice at the time of the megapause to catch up and resumed my earlier concept like nothing happened. So this all seems about average to me.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I think Hussie's biggest mistake was the Alpha kids/trolls. While some of them were certainly interesting in their own right, adding 16+ characters, even if the majority of them were in the background, was just an over-complication that a story like Homestuck didn't need. It took away from time that more interesting characters should have had and definitely made it impossible for Hussie to wrap the plot up in a SATISFYING way, yeah. Act 6 was a screw-up on the whole.

[POS Industries]

After the timeskip, I think the damage was already done. Nearly doubling the cast certainly didn't help, but breezing past three years of development for the original main characters (they certainly aren't the main characters anymore) and having them emerge largely unrecognizable in personality crippled the comic pretty badly.

[Loyal]

Out of all the ancestor characters, the only ones who actually contributed to the overall narrative didn't even add that much. Jane and Meenah are just proxies for the Condesce's character development. Aranea simply threw additional conflicts on top of an already existing overabundance thereof. Kurloz helped provide supplies to a character who already had a demonstrable ability to be wherever he wanted to be with anything he needed to have.

[POS Industries]

Also Dirk has consistently been a gigantic mary sue that keeps having to jump in and quickly do something to move the plot along when Hussie ends up painting himself in a corner while writing everyone else's pointless bullshit.

[Locke cole]

I was okay with act 6.

I think.

It's been so long.