@vriskazone

1. When I say "not time travel as Homestuck defines it", I'm not saying Homestuck disagrees that it is time travel, I mean that it distinguishes John's thing as an action from the sort of time travel used by Dave or Aradia or what have you. It's a different name, but it's not not time travel, John calls it that multiple times, both before and after saying it's "not really time travel", specifically to distinguish it from what Dave does. It's time travel in the Back to the Future changing-history sense, where the rest of it is time travel in the Dragon Ball multiverse sense. It's not like the stipulation that disagreeing with Caliborn's script makes your timeline explode makes that a totally different system, so I don't see why calling this "retcon" makes this a different system. It narratively comes with all of the strengths and weaknesses that the ability to alter history innately carries with it, so at this point it's a completely semantic argument. If you want me to call it "changing history" instead of "time travel" then fine.

2. It's perfectly valid to argue which roles are more satisfying for a story, actually. If they put her in another role and I thought it was more interesting, I wouldn't be complaining, would I? And you're right! We don't have any context for how Vriska has grown over the journey. That's what I'm complaining about! It sure would've been nice to see it! Or anyone else's. Like the journey that we already did see, hence why it's silly to me that they shelved that one and replaced it.

3. No, me being bored is boring. You don't have to agree with me nor are you obligated to form an elaborate response to something you aren't interested in, but please do not be disingenuous.

@reimaruwa

I have no trouble engaging with Homestuck's mechanics. I'm not sure why you're writing about me like I'm some stereotype that discovered the comic last week. I think that Homestuck going so far into the meta elements of the narrative that it gives John the power to alter literally anything, and has that be the solution to the mass-grave it dug for the lion's share of the cast the previous chapter, saps the tension and stakes from the story, and detaches the audience from being as invested in the protagonists as they previously were. I don't think this is an invalid opinion.