I think a show would sort of lose a lot of the charm the original comic had, but tbh I don’t think it’s gonna be a doomsday event of all hell breaking loose. I’m not looking forward to homestuck being in the general public’s eye for the first time in 12 years, but maybe it’ll be a good thing
(Please don’t use this topic as grounds to argue I just feel like sharing my opinion)
I think I agree with you, though the difference is I also think they're compensating for the new medium with changing around certain properties, which I don't hear anyone talk about. An interview I saw on Tumblr stated they're not going to replicate the story one-to-one but maintain the general flow of events. I think the pesterlogs visualizing the person speaking could make for some fun gimmicks if properly utilized, too. I'm willing to give it a try, and even fall in love with it if I need to.
My question though is, how the hell are they going to come up with a new gimmick for Scratch? I'm damn excited to see a new interpretation of his character quirks.
i'm gonna wait and see what they change, but i'll be going in with the mindset that it can't be the comic so it should try to keep the heart and characters but it's ok if they change around the plot
vriska is awesome
The format adaptation question is always a pretty key one. We've seen it before with the books which, let's be honest were never really there to replicate the multi media efforts of the webcomic. Here I think certain changes for brevity, focus and perhaps with fewer characters or shifted emphasis now that the characters are much more firmly founded through the opening acts will probably be the case.
One Piece's live action adaptation, or perhaps Scott Pilgrim are both good examples of something being lost through the motion and reality of production, but which used other elements native to the new media to create a new experience.
The Pesterlongs, title case important could be handled one of a few ways, anything from anime style "Show the actual screen shots and have the person talking as an insert shot" to showing the people typing at their computer, to even rapidly condensing those more long form moments to something tighter and more face to face. With the understanding the audience can always go to the original material for a more in-depth look.
Given Hussie's participation I imagine, like One Piece's adaptation there might also be some "clarification" of intent, characterization or other elements that might be adjusted as a kind of post-facto stamp on the perceptions meant then or now.
And of course we're all having the "So what's your VA choice for this character?" discussion again after ever so long.
(For the record the voices are spot on to me, with the caveat of not knowing Jade or Karkat's quite yet. As they're credited we know the full trailer at least has something for them.)
Also a note that as it's a trailer it's generally good practise to put the "sizzle" up front to hook in attention, hence karkat's potential appearence, even if it's just a brief, out of sequence thing to bait the hook with "The Trolls Will Talk". Hussie and the production team knows what puts eyeballs on pixels for homestuck and the funny grey people are there.
Horvitz, the voice director is also very competent and given they do "Funny Cartoon People" plenty the generally assumed case of quirks informing voice and vice versa will be interesting to see played out. What with Vriska's draaaaaaaawn out words and preferences for 8 sounds. And terezi's whole...Thing. Let alone nep's puns. I VERY much doubt octopimp will be around but the "Hussie's internal take approved" voice for everyone from Mom Lalonde to Gamzee to Equius to Eridan will certainly be formidible. Let alone prospit, derse and some of the video game mechanics. I think I speak for many when I say The Youth Roll in full motion will be really fun.
