Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Loyal]

1. Originally Posted by Flarecobra

   Just like most superhero comics, huh?

   At least in most superhero comics a character death has the side effect of getting them written out of the story for awhile. Also, usually advances the plot or resolves a story arc in some way.
   
   "How are they gonna get out of this one?" is a question usually reserved for situations like death traps, villains overpowering the hero, or someone in dire need of rescue. Hussie has somehow taken that question and made us ask it of character death. Character death that had special rules designed to highlight its finality, even.

2. Roxy Rogue of Void’s a bunch of life rings, enters dream bubble, distributes to relevant ghosts.
   
   There, you’re welcome.

   via Tumblr:

3. The shark was jumped since the first flash, if you're counting, "Tries to be SUPER COOL and dramatic" as jumping the shark.

   The shark-jumping moment people are trying to identify is the part where all of the increasingly-WTF-inducing antics had lost all dramatic impact, the plot's momentum had ground to a halt despite the best efforts of the cast members, and the story had accrued more plot threads than could ever be realistically resolved.
   
   If anybody cared about the storytelling being campy and hyperdramatic, you can forget about Homestuck because they would've stopped reading about 2/3 of the way through Problem Sleuth.

[Arcanum]

I don't remember why any of this is happening, but I still enjoyed the flash at least from a visual standpoint.

[Flarecobra]

Had some pretty awesome music though.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I liked the image of Caliborn just lying amongst his broken toys and shit, with his power fantasy sorta torn apart.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Bard The 5th LW

I liked the image of Caliborn just lying amongst his broken toys and shit, with his power fantasy sorta torn apart.

Apparently it is torn apart, but still alive in its new twisted form. But this already got old long ago.

I'm getting more tempted to remove Homestuck from my RSS feed and read through the rest when I see "Homestuck has finally fucking ended" show up in the news.

[Arcanum]

Well, looks like we're getting Mon/Wed/Fri updates now, so hopefully things will start to happen that aren't frivolous bullshit.

Oh who am I trying to kid.

[Flarecobra]

It was hard to get out with a straight face, huh?

[Locke cole]

I'm glad to see this thread remains a point of stability.

[mauve]

I liked how the flash animation signified the rapid switch between locations by mimicking a switch between the green and white website layouts. I also liked how characters flew in an out of the "boundaries" of the standard Flash canvas (an illusion created by enlarging the actual canvas to simulate the entire front page above the fold). That said, it's been so long since Homestuck updated last that Iforgot about 65% of what was going on pre Caliborn intermission and as a result have no actual frame of reference for what just happened. I've completely forgotten why Alpha Mindfang and the Empress were fighting, I don't remember where all the non-featured trolls/trollghosts/whatever are, and I have only a vague recollection of the weird standoff between Karkat and Super Important Troll Clown.

While I'm sure all the deaths in the movie won't be permanent, they felt rushed. Too many major characters died in rapid succession for there to be any dramatic impact.

Also, I find it strange that Hussie's first update in a year mocks the kids who draw fanart in poor manga styles and make weird fanfiction, yet that population comprises a good chunk of his own fanbase. It seems like insulting the same people you're marketing those lunch boxes, plushies, t-shirts, musical albums and fan-kickstarted game to would be a bad idea. It could be that this jab wasn't aimed at his fans at all, just self-absorbed people who refuse criticism in general, but it could certainly be misinterpreted as such. Maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

[Flarecobra]

Well, a certain someone has mentioned that his favorite jokes are the ones done onto the reader themselves...