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SarahMclaren Since: Apr, 2011
10/31/2011 18:59:47 •••

Wild Ride

As has been previously stated, Homestuck isn't a webcomic. It is something entirely new, something that makes full use of the website medium and has inspired countless copies, good and bad. There's no name for this format yet. Forget genre-busting, Homestuck is media-busting.

As for the ...thing... itself, overall it is excellent. The plot pacing starts off slow, but speeds up exponentially after the first act. The art and animation improve drastically over the course of the story. As does the music. It is great music.

Now, the plot is incredibly convoluted. To say things happen in anachronical order is an understatement. If you cannot keep track of paradoxes, things happening "simultaneously" at different times, and other temporal lunacies, this may not be the ...whatever... for you. And since time is a function of space, an internal mapping system that can cover whole universes may also help you. Go insane.

Also a warning. The author takes pride in taking tropes that are commonly done badly, and making them work, or at least not kill the work. The presence of these tropes may put you off. Things like author involvement, audience psycheouts, rapidly switching characters in the middle of something interesting/important, then focusing on something trivial, before throwing you back into the ring again, leaving you dazed and not sure where you are. Or even who you are. Often.

Tied in to the above, another warning: you may exhibit Andrew Hussie Syndrome. Symptoms include: saying whatever he's just done has ruined Homestuck forever, saying this X wasn't as good as the last X, and, more noticeably, yelling at the screen, the sky, and frightened people around you, "HUSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!". This is because when you eagerly await the next update, you don't know how it's gonna fit into what's going to happen, given that it hasn't happened yet, and you're not going back over the absolutely huge archive to see how it fits into the past. The deductive momentum built up over the course of the narrative has hit a brick wall, and it hurts.

So I recommend you DON'T read Homestuck. I recommend you wait until it's finished. Then I recommend you buy it on DVD, and set aside a free week (or more)to watch it all in one go.

Then I recommend you grab some tissues for the tears you will weep at the fact that it IS finished.


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