WHAT DID U THINK OF THE HOMESTUCK PILOT EP
!! I LIKE IT! FULL HONESTY I ADORE THIS LIL THING A LOT !!
i came into it with an open mind because adapting homestuck into a medium without a reliance on static spoken/written dialogue seemed so out of reach! turns out i was pleasently surprsied on how they handled the pesterlogs between the characters!!! (tbh the teaser threw me off a bit it with how the convos would go but that was me uselessly nitpicking an obviously post nit trailer) it felt like a celebration of its cast, like it was made purely from the joy and love of the writers for a story they cherish :]
making all the kids voices actually sound young was such a great move, and i would die for every single one of them. those are our KIDS their hands are too small to hold the big world right now and they will be forever. when something bad happens to them im blowing this whole website up along with this stupid baka earth.
the fast pacing is comfortable for me! its how i expected it to go, with just enough detail that if you paid attention to the tiny things youd catch every move that would be played later. i liked how even though the smoke at the end of the dad fight seems out of nowhere, if you watch u can see john captchalouging his smoke pellets while digging through his chest that lasts like. half a second of frames in his first convo with dave. its super fun that they'll put tiny scenes like that to keep it whole despite having to move at breakneck speeds!
dave surprised me with how animated he was, but the fact is i cant expect to be able to pinpoint dave's issues from the first conversation, especially now that were in a new scenario with a big ass window to his whole demeanor during an interaction! we havent even seen him talk to anyone else yet, but i got hope in hussie n the writers that they will reveal dave as his same trauma ridden self, but more and more obvious as we get farther from johns limited perspective! pilot dave is a dick n i love him
my biggest worry is how its perceived by the wider audience, because the fast speeds is perfect for me as someone who as already read the comic! someone blissfully unrelated has no idea whats happening, and could easily be turned off by the lack of direction and drive. but honestly that a personal preference of the viewer!
SUPER STOKED TO SEE IT GET PICKED UP AND TURNED INTO AN ACTUAL SERIES! YEARS MORE VRISCOURSE, AS IT SHOULD BE!!