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Originally Posted by rpgdemon
We wouldn't be able to see the consequence of John's actions if we skipped over the bad stuff and just showed the good. It'd be like, "Okay, sure, whatever? Things are okay for like 500 pages? What kind of story is this?" It'd be crazy boring, and wouldn't have any sort of meaning attached to it, since we wouldn't actually know what the heroes triumphed over. It would be a hollow victory, and a boring narrative.
Here's the thing: I'm not going to convince you it doesn't suck, since you've already decided that it does, and you seem read the comic to look for reinforcement of that belief. I will say that some of the things you're proposing would be objectively worse from a storytelling point of view, regardless of what the trappings of the story actually are. You don't write a story about how great everything is going, you put your protagonists into a tree and throw rocks at them. It's important that things are bad for them over the course of the story, or else there's no reason to continue reading, or for them to continue their journey. If everything is great on page 2, why even have a page 500?
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You're making the fundamental mistake of assuming that the author doesn't control the story every step of the way.
Like, let's be real here. Andrew Hussie has literally just undone about FOUR YEARS of actual story. Literally, the characters and events we've been following since the start of Act 6 (way back in 2011) now do not matter AT ALL.
Why do you think he did this? What purpose does it serve to the story or the character development of anyone? Odds are, he did it for one of two reasons:
1.) He literally had no clue how to write himself out of the plot he had written up until that point.
2.) He's just WAY too up his own ass about how meta/subversive his story is towards normal storytelling devices.
There are a MILLION ways he could've written the story to have Vriska survive, inject interesting narrative/conflict, and NOT have insulted his readers for giving a shit about his comic for four years.
e: Like, Snake is most certainly NOT complaining about things going wrong for the main characters, Snake is complaining about the story dragging itself out and wasting time. If you think Snake's complaints are that "Something bad happened to the protagonists!" then I don't think you're reading the same comic.