It’s impossible to try and forgive him on that unexplained, broken note. (WHY did he have to say he’s not even in a hurry to do the epilogue? Why didn’t he even throw in an “I’m sorry, but” before he said it?!?) It’s impossible not to be angry. Not when he doesn’t even take the fucking time to say “I’m sorry”. And no matter how much you want to believe that he had the best intentions, no matter how much you believe he must have had a REASON, it’s impossible to believe with all your heart that that’s true. He just leaves behind a note saying “you figure it out”, and moves on to his next big thing (Hiveswap). Is in no hurry to apologize, or even fucking justify himself. (Not that so many theories turned out wrong – that was always in the cards just from the nature of theorizing, part of the fun – but that there are NO FUCKING ANSWERS and everything is wrapped up by pure magic and nothing else, in a story that was so good about doing the exact opposite of that for its entire length.) He screws the SHIT out of you and all of your friends right before he leaves, vanishing with your money like a deflating Ponzi scheme, and has no intention to even write back to you about what he did (Epilogue) anytime soon. And you do EVERYTHING together, and when the end finally comes you prepare to throw the biggest bash of all. It’s as if you made a good friend, a really REALLY good wonderful friend, and you spent years together, and you knew they were eventually going to move out of the country, but you were going to make it as good a time as possible while he was there. Really, really angry.Īngry that it seems like Andrew was having a bad year or two and just… decided to take a guillotine to his story and cut it short undone. (Especially not with so many theories busted to hell by the end already.) And whichever parts of me DON’T buy into Unstuck and Unbound, whichever parts doubt the ONE POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATION for Andrew throwing the whole fucking plot out the window and jump-cutting to an easy happy ending… those parts can’t help but be angry. ![]() I can’t buy 100% into it without serious confirmation. I GET that.īut I can’t fully buy the Unstuck and Unbound theory, no matter how much I want to. If the kids were ever to be happy and free. That Caliborn saying his veins swum with red herrings might have been a hint that all the overwrought foreshadowing in Homestuck would need to be completely sidestepped and unfulfilled if Lord English’s plans were ever to be glitched-out-of. I understand that the POINT could have been that this really never meant anything all along, that these were all distractions. I understand the Unstuck and Unbound theory/theories. It’s just permanently a thing that never mattered, forever. There’s no way to resolve that in the epilogue. To how Andrew seemed so blithely underconfident that he could do justice to their faces that the closest thing we ever saw to a Denizen’s actual face was that SHITTY Demon Mobster Kingpin ripoff Yaldabaoth sketchface in Collide.Īnd then – THEN – I realize that not only did we never see Hephaestus, but his entire Choice, his entire epic repairing-one-thing SCHTICK, was absolutely and UTTERLY irrelevant to the plot in every single way. To the paltry few mostly-offscreen Choices that were made. To how one being implied to be a “witch” and “not a snake” was all we’ll ever know about her besides a shitty silhouette. And it seems alright! …For about three minutes. Why not try to think about Homestuck intentionally, accept the ending, and start to finally process things?”Īnd so I think about it. Except this time I think to myself… “Hey, it’s been a while. ![]() As usual, my thoughts drift to Homestuck, whether I want them to or not.
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