I'm just one of those people who hate the idea of the retcon, and I thought everything post-retcon was very poorly handled. I just feel that the retcon threw away character arcs and fixed all their problems. And post-retcon Vriska should not have existed.
WELL i do see your side, but i def don't feel the same way! i think that the retcon didn't throw away 'arcs'. first off, the alpha kids had the exact same experiences, and jade and kanaya barely had arcs pre-retcon, so that threw nothing away imo. as for the other members of the meteor crew, i think it was more like their 'arcs' were at a Game Over point: they were stagnating and miserable, which doesn't equal character development. they pretty much wasted their entire three years not changing at all. karkat still idolised the empress and harboured internalised-bullshit apologia for the Alternian regime, for example. post-retcon, he didn't even know who meenah was, because he had moved past that. the best example is dave: how exactly did dave change pre-retcon? his 'dealing with the meaning of heroism/masculinity' thing went absolutely nowhere and he threw his life away. post-retcon he came to terms with a bunch of stuff and grew as a person. like, what got thrown away?
and then terezi did a whole bunch of cool stuff before she died, tying up the 'im useless and pathetic' crap she'd internalised from her shitty relationship with gamzee, and so her arc pretty much got finished back then. retcon!terezi's problems were not fixed in the slightest--she may not have had a faygo addiction and avoided being abused by gamzee, but she was still miserable, still felt useless, and seemed unhappy right until the end. if anything terezi had LESS fixed problems post-retcon. which is actually why im not so against post-retcon vriska; i thought it was actually really good to show us that all terezi's problems, which started from her grief and guilt over killing vriska, would NOT have been solved if vriska lived--and to be able to compare the vriska who never grew up to the one who did was really interesting.
i think the only one i can kinda agree with on this is rose, whose drinking problem got sidestepped completely.
And now that the comic has ended, I honestly think that act 6 in general was a huge waste of time. Which is a shame since acts 1-5 is my favourite fictional story.
HOW THO act 6 has:
- unite synchronisation
- homosuck
- penis ouija
- dirk drawing caliborns porn
- ROXY LALONDE EXISTING
- erisolsprite
- caliborn: enter
- ron swanson
- ILL TAKE YOUR BONER MAGIC LIKE A MAN
- rose/kanaya kiss
- dave_ebubbles
- guy fieri the supreme court and the juggalo presidents of america
- dave rapping about obama
I'm just waiting for that epilogue cause I gotta know what happened to Gamzee, man... Gamzee forever my fave.
man!! i wish like, there were more ppl i knew in the hs fandom who treated it the way this place treats kh--i am absolutely sure the answer to what happened to him is in the comic if we piece together the facts enough, but im not cluey enough to do it