Mordax et al

deathbypolykin:

karfuckingstrider:

Okay I can’t sleep, so i’m going to do my thoughts on the end of homestuck.

Pros first
– amazing animation, absolutely gorgeous and well done homestuck is finally the animes
– the characters are happy. they are free from the game and can live in peace
– v nice music, as usual 
– dirk and jake were playing soccer i think i’m going to die laughing wtf 

Cons are a little more complicated, and I’m gonna section it into loose ends/the unexplained, and character/story potential. 

Loose Ends/The Unexplained
– the felt were left still alive on jake’s planet. Crowbar is not dumb, and was clearly alive and awake.
– Lord English’s curse. As explained by doc scratch, it passes to whoever kills the current bearer, and being killed is the only way for it to be taken away from someone. As having been the one to kill the condesce, Roxy should have inherited it, or the condesce wasn’t actually dead. 
– Hussie pointing ominously at LE. Just a glimpse of him in the flash would have been nice to note that he was still there
– The sprites. Were they allowed out of the game since they are constructs? Even if they were, none of them were at the platform. Are they all dead?
– The Weekend at Bernie’s reference was never cashed in.
– Jack noir was still alive???
– literally anyone could say ‘caliborn’ to calliope and ????
– Aranea???
– where did eridan’s gun go?
– what powers the jujus (rings of life and void, the cueball)
– Gamzee. gamzee gamzee gamzee. :o(
– the alpha kids left at the end of the masterpiece. do they just… stay there? forever? 

Character/Story Potential
– Pretty much no resolution between a majority of character relationships. i’m not talking about ships, i mean did jake and jane ever make up? jake and dirk? – rose and dirk never had a conversation.   
– Gcatavrospirte all that power, and the creation of this character led to nothing
– jane was supposed to talk to her denizen. remember that?
– rose never played the rain
– dirk never talked to /his/ denizen 
– terezi and vriska’s character arcs, but /especially/ terezi 

– Caliborn modeling himself after jake, and his OC. Many, many implications that caliborn would posses jake and there were /many/ opportunities for this
– Die’s doll with the ability to bring back members of the felt and the midnight crew, heavily hinted to be important, never used. Could have destroyed the green sun in a /very/ interesting way  
– Gamzee again. god he deserved more than that. at least if we were going to end up with him presumably dead and a permanent part of lord english, he should have gotten a Terry: Fast foward to Liv or Reader: Mental Breakdown style flash to explain it all
– Spades fucking Slick never got to truly fight lord english

now I know a lot of these are personal gripes, and i don’t want anyone to think that i don’t like the comic. it’s not even that i didn’t like the ending! I did! i thought it would have been a wonderful ending, had at least /half/ of the stuff above got resolved. I really hate complaining, and i love this comic from the bottom of my heart and hope that hussie is doing well. he should be so proud of what he accomplished, no matter the flaws. 

I agree with all the above, but ALSO:

Foreshadowing.  So much foreshadowing that wasn’t carried through with.  Doc Scratch’s foreshadowing John’s death, Dave foreshadowing his battle with Lord English, Dave–okay but Dave just had so much??? so many references and assertions and the whole talk about his mythic role as hero-not-a-hero and the question of his archetype and it was so integral just to the last couple upd8s, did the retcon just … do away?? with all Dave’s insecurities and ideas of what a hero needed to be?  I didn’t need his foreshadowing to be fulfilled, but I really needed to see Dave accept that he didn’t have to be the hero while also accepting that he was a hero, you feel me? 

And again, Doc Scratch foreshadowed John’s death so hard–I have been waiting FIVE YEARS, emotionally gearing up that entire time, prepping myself to watch one last emotional death, and he didn’t even fake us out like wtf hussie, I studied for this!

Again, I agree, the flash was beautiful and I’m glad everyone’s happy, but there’s so much that’s been left unfinished and unexplored and it saddens me.

Yes, there was so much foreshadowing that just… went nowhere.