Clarifying Ambivalence
And just to clarify, while I’ve written This, I still agree with what I wrote on 3.14.16 Here. I thought the ending was fine for what it was; understanding and considering valid the arguments of people who don’t(even agreeing with certain of their arguments) doesn’t mean I share their views completely. Homestuck’s ending wasn’t what I wanted entirely -I don’t think the stuff after Game Over justified such a drastic narrative move(though I enjoyed the stuff with Terezi using John to rewrite Continuity :]), I thought everybody except John and Roxy(and maybe Terezi) felt kind of off afterwards, and in leaving lots of ambiguity it necessarily skipped over some Characters I’m really invested in- but it was a “happy” ending, and it was entertaining, and the art and obvious hardwork that went into it was Majestic, and it felt, to me at least, like closure u_u It was about what I expected given what’s happened since Game Over; if not in its details, then in its broad strokes.
And while I think it clearly has flaws I don’t think it’s completely and irredeemably flawed, nor am I unsatisfied with it; I think there are clear ideas in the ending, clear thematic ties, likely emotional experiences it wished to resonate with or invoke, and certain ways it “worked” as a narrative. I don’t think it was entirely out of left field or horrible like a lot of folks think. But, like I said at the start(and maybe because I really enjoy symmetry :p) that doesn’t mean I can’t or won’t acknowledge the unsatisfying elements of it. That’s what the Ambivalence tag is all about; the ending was Ambivalent, and I’m Ambivalent about it :T
