HS:BC opinions.

TW//: Spoilers and that stuff.

To be honest, the epilogues are fine, that's all, but Candy is torture. I can understand Jane's xenophobia in Meat, since she doesn't know how troll culture and its reproduction works and prefers to take it easy, I understand it, but man, in Candy they make her a Nazi for no reason. Maybe because Dirk committed suicide and he is the character who has the most control, which makes Jane lose the feeling of control and decides to go to extremes, but they handled it very poorly. John is clearly the protagonist and most of the characters fade into the background and become terribly boring and bland. Meat, on the other hand, is clearly constant self-fellatio on Dirk's part. I mean, it's well done, it makes you want the arrogant narrator to shut up, but it's reading page after page knowing that everything will go according to Dirk's plan. 

It has some interesting details and a bit of the post-humanism theme from Rose and Dave, but otherwise it's a boring read. The concept of epilogues is very artistic and poetic, but because of that they have sinned by being boring.

At least Terezi is still a good character, so.. Dunno, but I would love to hear someone's opinion on the Homestuck epilogues too, I often hear people criticizing it very strongly for the mischaracterization of the characters, but few positive opinions. 

going to keep this short. 

In short, Beyond Canon (at least with the first team) had a very slow pace, and I was also not a fan of the artwork. However with the new team, the art is quite beautiful, and the writing is a bit better. I do appreciate that the new team is more ambitious, with the Vriska visual novel and the upcoming flash (though the vriska vn was a mixed bag for me ((however the mindfang portion was beautiful imo)). 

As for the epilogues, its a complicated subject for me. To be very quick I can say I semi-enjoy them. Mainly because I have conflicting opinions on candy, however I do love Meat a lot. I find the concept of Ult Dirk very interesting and his control of the narrative, like really good. I like ult dirk alot actually. However with candy, one thing I do like is how they expand on John's feelings post-sburb and the development of his and Terezi's relationship. Then there is obviously stuff I dislike, one is the omega kids, sorry, i just cant find a bone in my body to care for them, and how Gamzee is treated and characterized(ughh) etc.. But I do find them an interesting read and the exploration on what it means to be canon is pretty cool. I do believe that every HS should at least read it once, bc im not in the boat of telling ppl not to read it bc it "sucks".