>>107122093Fuck me, I sent the post too soon. At least it wasn't in the middle of a sentence or something. Anyways:
I thought some of the conversations were nice and there were some jokes that did get some good laughs at of me. I related with John a lot, maybe because I'm also sort of in the doldrums of my life right now. I'm curious to see where all of this is going and hopeful for something that's satisfying. Also, Gamzee dies in it, which is a plus.
But on the negative side, both parallel narratives felt really fucking weird to me. Maybe that's the point, but that also bothers me. It all felt very pretentious after a while and I just kind of got tired of the whole meta-narrative schtick, even when it was doing some admittedly fun things, and I hated that both stories ended up so fucking depressing. I guess I just want to see these characters be happy, goddammit. It'd be fine if it were just about how time has led them to not be as great of friends, and the epilogue is about them dealing with that. Or if they're bored with the perfect world they've created then have the epilogue be about them leaving it to start new adventures. But everything in both epilogues was melodramatic relationship problems, war, death, and depression.
Also why is Dirk the fucking villain now? Is he the villain? Why is Jane a fucking troll-hating racist cryptofascist? I'll grant that it's been a while since I've read Homestuck, but I feel like this was never set up. It makes sense, it's explained in the narrative of the epilogue, but for such vital parts of the narrative, they're both unsatisfying and forced. Also Gamzee is in it, and fuck him.
