In this case, the once again building and establishing of a new set of kids/trolls, each with their own very detailed personality and quirks. To be honest, it's really starting to feel overdone. Homestuck's text-to-action ration has risen alarmingly as it's gone on, and currently it's through the roof. Virtually nothing has happened in the past couple months, since Cascade, outside a couple dreamself murders.
It's become stuffing characterization and exposition into update after update. The humor is weaker (especially as a vast amount of it is now recycling jokes that were hilarious when they were established, but we've now used multiple times and they're simply not as amusing anymore), and the characters have a hard time holding my interest as they are admittedly mashups of people we've already spent a good deal of time with.
Granted this is entirely my own 2 cents, but that's why I'm confused by Purvis telling me that I'm flatly wrong. :wat:
EDIT:
You have. You've done the whole jumping to conclusions by presuming the worst, having conclusion meteored by what actually happens which is way better than what was expected, then repeating later on a couple times now. But take solace in that you're not the only one who does it. But it is most certainly a cycle and I wonder how many people who do it are aware of it?
I had my own when the trolls were first introduced to be aliens and I figured "welp, this is going downhill now." The problem I was trying to anticipate things based on my own expectations, and it didn't work. Since then, I've figured out quite repeatedly that The Huss knows what he's doing, as history and the continued presence of repeat detractors has shown.
Interesting. I'm inclined to stand by this one, at the very least, but I'd love to come back to this post later and say "man I was an idiot". I find, however, that most of my impressions of Homestuck have either stayed the same (good and bad!) or deteriorated. I have yet to be truly pleasantly surprised by something I disliked tuning out to be wicked awesome. I stand by many of my previous notes - such as Jade being a terribly boring character (she was Miss Plot Device for a while and she really has yet to exert any personality on anything beyond excitability, with the notable exception of her conversations with Karkat), but again, these are really matters of opinion. The only thing about Homestuck I've really thought was a true negative of the comic rather than my own bias is the length to which Acts 5 and now 6 have been dragged...but of course, that's really opinion too, I guess.
bah I hate everything I really need to work on that
EDIT EDIT: To clarify, I still look forward to seeing what the new kids do. I'm certain, given the track record of AH, that they will turn out to be fairly awesome. But even now that we're past it, I still think Hivebent went on far too long, and the fact that even once he got out of it and had some actual action with the trolls and kids he went back to do it again with the guardians just falls really flat to me.
