the only thing i feel about this pilot is bad, pretty much regardless of how well it goes. on a personal level i really do think the best case scenario is just... it dying out after the pilot.

like someone else said earlier, it's a fun novelty at best and a sterilized reimagining at worst. i've seen some hopeful theories that it'll take off in a different direction a la scott pilgrim takes off, but i'm not hopeful. i like the animation! it looks great! if i didn't have my own gripes with vivziepop (which i don't care to go into) i would probably buy the june charm! but...

okay, sorry for how long this damn thing is going to be. hopefully you like reading!

"cant decide whether or not i like the visual gag where dave turns june's head around to look at the sky. definitely dont like the "LOOK AT THE SKY, NUMBNUTS!" like the way it sounded it sounds Painfully vivzie..." -- my friend, fool. generally... ugh. i'm not huge on the voice acting. as much as i appreciate that they don't sound like grown ass adults it's just.... eugh.

i fucking hate [june]'s little "as you can well.. imagine." it's just.. i don't know, it's not good? maybe i'm picky, but it doesn't fit the way that homestuck presented itself originally. there's a lot of other voice lines i'm super nitpicky about, and i've seen a lot of different opinions on specific, small things.

ultimately i do honestly think it can turn out well. i don't personally interact with viv's work, but i know it's at the least well-recieved enough to have made it onto a streaming service, so... there's at least something to be said re: the production quality. i do worry about it being truncated, but i don't think that's escapable.

i worry about project soundpage. i'm sure they'll keep working on it and it's going to be spectacularly different from this, but it's just a shame that it'll be overshadowed like this. i don't know why hussie is picking up homestuck again. i suppose i'd been under the impression that it had washed her hands of the whole thing, but i obviously don't personally know her. i just don't know who's funding it, or who pitched it, or any reason there's enough interest for it to actually be passed to a paid indie studio.

i think that's the biggest thing on my mind, though. i'm just tired.