Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Arcanum]

These two flashes are the best summaries in the entire story. Way better than the shitty walls of text used back in the day.

[POS Industries]

I would have preferred a proper narrative flow where we see these events unfold in a natural manner, but that's clearly too much to ask at this point.

It was a nice flash but it really is just everything I hate about how Homestuck is now.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

It was a nice flash but it really is just everything I hate about how Homestuck is now.

Please tell me you've turned a complete one-eighty and are now aggravated at how Andrew's written Vriska into the Mary Sue who Magically Fixes Everything I always knew Andrew was writing her as

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Please tell me you've turned a complete one-eighty and are now aggravated at how Andrew's written Vriska into the Mary Sue who Magically Fixes Everything I always knew Andrew was writing her as

Well, that is kind of all the worst parts of how Vriska was used in the first place, but it's not the thing that really bugs me.

I just hate all the time skips and retcons and wasting four years on a timeline that was retconned out of existence and now everything is presented in expositional walls of text and montage flashes. It's just so, so bad.

I miss actually seeing these character interactions take place. I can't believe there was more dialogue when none of these people had ever met each other in person.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Hussmaster General

I hope that you like it when characters in stories talk to one another, because there's an awful lot of that to come. Please stand by patiently and enthusiastically as my fake teens sit around bullshitting to the bitter end. Then a bunch of cool stuff will happen, and that will be that!

Sounds like we might be seeing more character interaction doing actually new stuff. I'm fine with the timeskip/montage, since it pretty much gets the point across. "Here's how things were different because Vriska was here, but you don't need to watch it happen for the umpteenth time"

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

Sounds like we might be seeing more character interaction doing actually new stuff. I'm fine with the timeskip/montage, since it pretty much gets the point across. "Here's how things were different because Vriska was here, but you don't need to watch it happen for the umpteenth time"

But like, isn't the Alpha Version of events infinitely more important for us to see than all those doomed timelines we spent ages dissecting every nuance of?

[Bard The 5th LW]

While I don't really care much for "Act 6: Vriska version", Karkat and Dave are fucking adorable oh my god.

[mauve]

So everything's better except that Tavros is still dead?

[Malek]

Tavrosprite won't self-destruct this time though, so he's technically not dead now.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

But like, isn't the Alpha Version of events infinitely more important for us to see than all those doomed timelines we spent ages dissecting every nuance of?

We wouldn't be able to see the consequence of John's actions if we skipped over the bad stuff and just showed the good. It'd be like, "Okay, sure, whatever? Things are okay for like 500 pages? What kind of story is this?" It'd be crazy boring, and wouldn't have any sort of meaning attached to it, since we wouldn't actually know what the heroes triumphed over. It would be a hollow victory, and a boring narrative.

Here's the thing: I'm not going to convince you it doesn't suck, since you've already decided that it does, and you seem read the comic to look for reinforcement of that belief. I will say that some of the things you're proposing would be objectively worse from a storytelling point of view, regardless of what the trappings of the story actually are. You don't write a story about how great everything is going, you put your protagonists into a tree and throw rocks at them. It's important that things are bad for them over the course of the story, or else there's no reason to continue reading, or for them to continue their journey. If everything is great on page 2, why even have a page 500?