With any adaptation, changes between mediums, changes need to be made. It is inevitable that the story must be changed, and ideally such changes results in two works of art that elevate the other through their coexistence.
Now, what sort of changes to Homestuck do you, fellow forum users, think will be necessary, and are there any possible changes you feel hopeful or even excited for?
personally, I'm very curious as to how many conversations will be changed from text to phone calls, and possibly seeing characters speak face-to-face before acquiring the Gift of Gab.
One of my predictions is that we will see the trolls far sooner (my current strongest theory is that we will mostly just see the kids getting "trolled" far earlier in the story) and I am curious as to how the typing quirks will be translated voice acing if at all. will the trolls be given strange and cartoony voices?
Mostly I'd like this to be a thread discussing the potentially fun parts of adaptation. Sometimes changes in adaptations aren't bad, but allow you to see the story and characters from entirely new angels. What do you guys think?
Rebalancing the pacing of the first half to suit an animated medium better would be a nice adaptational choice. I'm personally in favor of alternating between human POV and troll POV on an episode-by-episode basis until a critical plot moment syncs them up (probably Dave's entry with whatever the climax of the animated Hivebent ends up being).
Of course, from A5A2 onward I'm hoping for a 1:1 transliteration of the source material's pacing.
Yes, it will be an absolute TRAVESTY if we don't have at least 20 episodes drawn in the style of Caliborn.
"This is StuckUnderHell, nor am I out of it." - Mephistopheles
Hi, glad to have more people talking about this, but in the interest of keeping the forum tidier I'm going to lock this thread and encourage you to talk in either of these threads which I think cover the same topics!
For general speculation about the pilot/series:
https://www.fruityrumpus.com/forums/t/homestuck-animated-pilot-containment-thread
For how the unique meta elements will be adapted:
https://www.fruityrumpus.com/forums/t/how-do-you-guys-think-the-meta-elements-of-homestuck-will-work-in-the-animated-series
-KeCh
