not a meat-->candy-->meat transition like expected, but alright
so far the kids seem likable enough, vriska's back AGAIN which is
vrissy just seems like proto-vriska with very little, if any differences, other than being younger;
harry and tavros are much unlike their predeccessors
always thought it was weird that they just straight up named their kids after their friends anyways, what's the point
clown is actually dead, which nullifies andrew hussie's clown statements about how there's not a single universe the clown dies in, but i guess he's no longer got plot armor/canon armor because we're beyond canon? or something equally as stupid and convoluted
anyways, the kid's hijinks were fun to read but i also couldn't help but get pretty bored
they're likabkle sure but why should i give a shit about whats happening? the story literally opens with the epilogues biggest and most intentional plot hook, just to blueball us by immediately turning over the very next update to jake and the earth which we were repeatedly told isn't canon and doesn't matter
obviously the timelines are either going to cross or get merged at some point,
otherwise they wouldn't spend all this time building up both universes,
but at the same time, since there's no hints at that happening;
i'm reading over disheveled alcoholic jake, irredeemable bitch jane crocker, dead gamzee, vriska AGAIN, and two kids and one small-vriska wondering why the fuck any of it matters and when we're going to go back to the meat timeline
it doesn't HAVE to be dirk but after we get slapped in the face with MEAT MATTERS CANDY DOESNT over and over again in the epilogues what else am i supposed to look forward to? the comic has literally just started and everything happening on earth C already feels like filler content
and of course from a writers standpoint/point of view OBVIOUSLY this is going to matter, timelines are going to merge in some way, the kids will appear in meat and become proto-protagonists, etc.
but this also goes against everything we were literally just told in the epilogues, for no reason, and seems like an entirely backwards approach to what the already controversial epilogues tried to accomplish
the beginning was the only original return to sprite form, don't get me wrong the artists are great but despite it technically being canonized fanfiction it all still feels like fanfiction tier writing/filler. i don't expect homestuck 2 to accomplish the original magic of the first comic or live up to the realistically grandiose expectations after what the original comic gave us, considering we're working with an entire team now and hussie's basically just standing on the side of the field as a blind referee to the whole thing, but it all feels very 'off' and makes me wonder why i'm even bothering to read it because my brain keeps telling me i don't care and it doesn't matter
anyways closing thoughts on all the updates so far:
i'm going to keep reading but i won't like doing it