I'm not caught up, but I did watch the last flash because I'm impatient.
Was beautiful! I feel like I understood the majority of what was going on, too, though I'm sure the extra context would make it a bit more understandable.
I look forward to catching up, and enjoyed being on the ride for as long as I was before taking a break, which all things considered was still for a very long time. Probably the longest, but if not, it's definitely up there.
There is a lot of "HOW DARE YOU NOT WRAP UP EVERY SINGLE LOOSE END" going around, mixed with the occasional "I didn't see my favorite character, where are they?"
I don't think even Tolkien wrapped up every loose end. :P
yknow hussie did it right. there is no way to properly end homestuck, and i think he realized before the end of it all the strongest point in this fandom is our ability to interpret and create off of his work, and creating a definitive ending would ultimately crush that and a significant part of the people who participate in this community. throughout all of the pauses and everything, this community has created some of the most incredible and diverse content ever. i think a lot of people who have been a part of homestuck for a long time will attest that at a point it stopped being about the comic itself and more about the characters and our personal interactions with them. there is so much incredible content out there that has sprung not just from the work of the comic but how each and every person has adapted it to themselves. hussie has legitimately just handed us the ability to do that to the end of time with this comic, he’s basically just told us here, it’s yours now and i couldn’t be more grateful.
i havent seen the ending, and wont for several months, but given the reactions i've seen im pretty sure i know what happened, and this response to it seems pretty good
Edit: one more thing. If you're curious about whether there will be anything resembling an epilogue to this ending, yes, I've been thinking about that for some time. It'll take a while to produce though, whatever specific form it ends up taking. Working on Collide took months, and came right down to the wire. I've got more time now though obviously. But that said, I'm not in a huge hurry at this point. Keep an eye out here for developments. There should be plenty of other news in coming months too.
There is a lot of "HOW DARE YOU NOT WRAP UP EVERY SINGLE LOOSE END" going around, mixed with the occasional "I didn't see my favorite character, where are they?"
I don't think even Tolkien wrapped up every loose end. :P
I'm pretty happy with the ending, but I also want to post "Wow, I can't believe there was an anticlimax in Homestuck"
I think a lot of the complaints are because Homestuck has been running for so long that people have simply forgotten certain things, and felt like they were owed a recap.
I think a lot of the complaints are because Homestuck has been running for so long that people have simply forgotten certain things, and felt like they were owed a recap.
Oh god
the last update being one of Hussie's recaps would have been perfect.
I dunno, I have pretty much always expected a sizable amount of dumb comments (which are just magnified by Tumblr, where a lot of the fan stuff is at), since it got reasonably. Which is, what, since at least before the Newgrounds crash? A long time.
There is a lot of "HOW DARE YOU NOT WRAP UP EVERY SINGLE LOOSE END" going around, mixed with the occasional "I didn't see my favorite character, where are they?"
I don't think even Tolkien wrapped up every loose end. :P
I dunno. Up through "Cascade", even parts of Act 6, Hussie was really good at wrapping up loose ends. So a fan could be forgiven for assuming that Huss intended to wrap EVERYTHING up at the story's end, and being frustrated that it didn't happen.
I mean, they sorta DIRECTLY foreshadowed the lack of closure by pretty much confirming "yup, no arcs IRL, sorry kiddos, HS is doing something a lot more esoteric!"
Honestly the story proper was pretty much done when they brought Vriska back. Everything past that was sweet, well earned catharsis that gave the story a genuine feeling of completeness even without a direct ending to every plot thread.
TBH i feel like the story that *i* was following ended BEFORE Vriska came back, before Caliborn's little puppet show, shortly after the GAME OVER. If that had been the end, it'd be a bad ending, obviously, so i'm glad it didn't end there. But it was the last time i felt like i was following the story i had been following. After that, the characters underwent a bunch of developments we weren't privy to as they happened, and even now, i find the idea that bringing back Vriska, of all people, would magically solve everybody's interpersonal drama, a little hard to swallow. Certainly i would have liked to have seen that happen, with dialogue and conflict and character growth, not in the form of a short flash cartoon with hopscotch and Facebook and ring-a-ring-a-rosie
But anyway . . .
i kinda restrained myself before because, while watching the last couple animations, the Act 6 ending and Act 7, i didn't really connect to the events on a personal level, and felt underwhelmed, and i didn't want to be a buzzkill
but, having taken some time to reflect on stuff, this was a good ending
if this were Problem Sleuth, Act 7 would have been a lengthy battle between the 'legendary heroes' and LE, probably in the form of an enormous flash cartoon. That could go one of two ways, he wins or the kids win, and it's obvious which ending most fans would pick. Unlike PS, though, Homestuck had already tied up most of its loose ends at this point, or at least, the important ones. There literally was just that fight left, and maybe leaving it to the fans' imagination is the best possible decision.
I'm still curious about where Sburb itself came from (I'm suspecting at this point that Echidna and Yaldabaoth had something to do with it), and I also wonder if we'll get any stories about their further adventures in the new universe (this could well be like the PS extras).
I can approve of the basic message behind what Wicked linked, but I do feel like [S] Collide. directly contradicts the "powerups and videogame processions" part.
I'm probably being pedantic, but I'm still not entirely sure what to make of that particular Flash in the context of everything else.
TBH i feel like the story that *i* was following ended BEFORE Vriska came back, before Caliborn's little puppet show, shortly after the GAME OVER. If that had been the end, it'd be a bad ending, obviously, so i'm glad it didn't end there. But it was the last time i felt like i was following the story i had been following. After that, the characters underwent a bunch of developments we weren't privy to as they happened, and even now, i find the idea that bringing back Vriska, of all people, would magically solve everybody's interpersonal drama, a little hard to swallow.
same
i thought it was kind of interesting that she was still her cruel self to... herself, and i thought maybe there'd be more development there, but nah
wicked's images are nice though
i do like that the lord english fight was depicted in that stupid way many pages ago. fuckin boss fights man
looking back on Act 6 . . . one of the things i was very mixed on was just how meta it got
i mean it was always meta but Act 6 was literally self-parody a lot of the time
i feel that works better with hindsight, with those last scenes of Caliborn who 'wanted to play a game' and Calliope as a storyteller. There were self-reflexive themes running throughout the act, it was Homestuck in dialogue with itself.
of course this was all foreshadowed at the end of Act 5, with the literal shattering of the fourth wall and all
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It was a good ending. Issues will come later. But. Good ending. I'm glad I got to join the ride.
Pretty animation.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
But i don't think anyone would have been happy with more of the same.
Homestuck has been a thing for so long it's just weird to think of it being over at last.
i dunno
good animation
well, i'm going to bed
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Honestly the story proper was pretty much done when they brought Vriska back. Everything past that was sweet, well earned catharsis that gave the story a genuine feeling of completeness even without a direct ending to every plot thread.
But anyway . . .
i kinda restrained myself before because, while watching the last couple animations, the Act 6 ending and Act 7, i didn't really connect to the events on a personal level, and felt underwhelmed, and i didn't want to be a buzzkill
but, having taken some time to reflect on stuff, this was a good ending
if this were Problem Sleuth, Act 7 would have been a lengthy battle between the 'legendary heroes' and LE, probably in the form of an enormous flash cartoon. That could go one of two ways, he wins or the kids win, and it's obvious which ending most fans would pick. Unlike PS, though, Homestuck had already tied up most of its loose ends at this point, or at least, the important ones. There literally was just that fight left, and maybe leaving it to the fans' imagination is the best possible decision.
and they escaped the home
hm
i feel stupid for not getting it
i was still wondering how Caliborn got the ring of void, but i guess if that's the ending that doesn't even matter
I'm probably being pedantic, but I'm still not entirely sure what to make of that particular Flash in the context of everything else.
i thought it was kind of interesting that she was still her cruel self to... herself, and i thought maybe there'd be more development there, but nah
wicked's images are nice though
i do like that the lord english fight was depicted in that stupid way many pages ago. fuckin boss fights man
i might do the thing Section said, reread the whole MSPA from start to finish
sometime, anyway
i mean it was always meta but Act 6 was literally self-parody a lot of the time
i feel that works better with hindsight, with those last scenes of Caliborn who 'wanted to play a game' and Calliope as a storyteller. There were self-reflexive themes running throughout the act, it was Homestuck in dialogue with itself.
of course this was all foreshadowed at the end of Act 5, with the literal shattering of the fourth wall and all