Anonymous >> #30486
Posted on 2013-07-08 00:29:08 Score: 6 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
Can I confess something, I really think something like this needs to happen, possibly to multiple characters, 'cause not a single one of them is actually taking the bad guys seriously, despite the fact that they actually are serious threats. Hell, it took getting skewered and brought back to life to get Karakat to shut the fuck up. Not a single one of the heroes has an once of self-preservation instincts, not even the ones that don't have conditional immortality.

anubis1101 >> #30494
Posted on 2013-07-08 03:43:24 Score: 2 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
the humor is nice but it would indeed also be nice to have a bit of seriousness from time to time

Anonymous >> #30495
Posted on 2013-07-08 03:52:03 Score: 2 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
I thought the whole Vriska/English ghost-killing tour was pretty damn serious

Snuffleheim >> #30508
Posted on 2013-07-08 08:38:37 Score: 2 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
^They're not just talking about serious things happening, they're talking about tone. Sure, the idea of nullifying dead souls is pretty dark, but the comic gave it a short moment of drama, then proceeded with the usual "Oh look DEAD again lol" tone. Not only that, but even though the casualty numbers of that incident are brutal, they're relatively faceless. The number is so big that it's essentially meaningless, and to make things worse, ALL of them (as far as we know) were essentially duplicates with slightly different histories.

It may sound heartless to say, but I would take the "on-screen", violent death of a single alpha timeline character played for a change of attitude far more seriously than the continuous background mass nullification of a bunch of offshoot timeline souls played to show off the big bad's temper and power level. Not that the latter isn't serious, it's just not really as meaningful. It's in the delivery.

Anonymous >> #30538
Posted on 2013-07-08 19:32:52 Score: 10 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
For better or worse, Hussie is all about 2 things: black comedy, and the subversion of common narrative convention. Wanting/thinking it would be "proper" for deaths in the narrative to be treated with gravity is the biggest reason Hussie won't do it. He consistently flirts with narrative tension and drama, but shies away from them at the last second, leaving you with the reader equivalent of blue balls.

Anonymous >> #30627
Posted on 2013-07-10 01:30:02 Score: 2 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
Very
Erotic

[The sad thing is how often Homestuck is compared to a Cancerous Growth, when it comes to Composition, because of these- subversions]

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