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"Homestuck the animated pilot is finally here! We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we at SpindleRoo enjoyed making it."
So, as with the teaser for the pilot, I missed the debut of the pilot itself until a week later, i.e. about 20 minutes ago or so.
I'm not sure I like how uber meta it is. I mean, Homestuck could be super meta at times, too, but even for Homestuck, that shit was meta way out the ass. Like John trying to mute the narrator and Dave explicitly calling out the title drop and shit like that. Not sure if want.
Also, it kind of seems like they're really speedrunning through the first arc of Homestuck. That's actually fine, however, because a huge amount of the first arc of Homestuck was just John dicking around in his room doing whatever random shit the reader-supplied prompts told him to do, back when that was still a thing before being abandoned. And it probably makes more sense to introduce the other three main characters right at the start, rather than waiting until like forty or fifty episodes in before doing so, which probably would have been the case if this thing had been (will be?) more faithful to the comic. There is an awful lot of chaff that can be cut during the webcomic-to-animated-series conversion process without the animated series becoming bad.
Dave didn't sound like how I heard his voice in my head, but I could get used to it. John, Rose, and Jade were fine, though, and based on that one line from Karkat at the end, that could work, too. (EDIT) Wait... John was voiced by Toby Fox? As in the dude who made Undertale and Deltarune and also a shit-ton of music for Homestuck? Hell, that's awesome. (/EDIT)
When that cover/remix of "Showtime" kicked in when John and Dad started to fight, that was pretty fucking sick. (Dad is probably my oddball favorite character in the comic. All versions of him.)
And the teaser for things (e.g. trolls, lots and lots of trolls) to come at the end was pretty cool, too.
Overall, I didn't hate it. If this actually does become a real series and isn't just a one-off, I'd absolutely watch it.
(Also, apparently the official Homestuck website is finally back again? Makes sense, since it would have been super shitty for this pilot to come out and then people trying to read the original only finding a bunch of broken images and shit.)
