I'm tentatively hopeful that there's gonna be some redeeming qualities. but homestuck is the type of thing that could never be adapted in this way. it's way too dependent on its native medium.

first of all, homestuck is 8000+ pages. sure, they could make a series to rival one piece in length, but we all know that's not gonna happen. instead, they're gonna cut out a shit ton of story to make way for the things people "want" to see - like KARKAT, who they already have a voice actor lined up for despite the trolls not being introduced until HALFWAY THROUGH THE STORY. another clue that gives me the feeling it's gonna be paced really weird is the fact that a ton of the trailer seems to focus on john strifing with his dad? which makes me feel like they have a huge over-animated strife scene that is really fun, but takes up so much time that they're gonna end up having to rush past everything else.

homestuck is insanely dense, with both character moments but also plot, and I'm not confident in vivziepop's ability to balance them well. going back to the story not fitting into a purely visual medium, by god there's so many walls of text in homestuck that are EXTREMELY IMPORTANT but also, basically nothing is happening visually in the comic. in a purely visual medium, how do you make that work? answer: you don't, you just skip over all those important monologues and characterization and worldbuilding.

another thing I'm concerned about is the absolute flanderization of the characters. we already know karkat's gonna be involved, which makes it seem like their priority is showing people what they want, aka "look it's your blorbo, they're doing the characteristic thing they do!!" and then that's ALL they do.

oh, yeah, by the way, this trailer dropping is absolutely a distraction over the fact that literally yesterday, hussie forced the unofficial homestuck collection (UHC) to go down. it's a huge mess, the creator of the UHC made a massive blog post about it that I've only read a part of so far, but bottom line is that hussie is a huge dirtbag

for those who don't know: homestuck is currently owned by viz media, so they own and are responsible for maintaining the website homestuck has been hosted on. we already knew they didn't give a shit about homestuck when, after flash died, they replaced all the flash segments in homestuck with shitty low quality embedded youtube videos of them. this was a piss-poor way to experience homestuck, so you would hope that they would at least replace the flash segments when ruffle became widely used, but they didn't. at some point, some fans got together than created the UHC, a desktop application that's basically its own browser that allows you to experience homestuck exactly as it was when it was released, as well as archiving basically all official (and a lot of unofficial) homestuck content. it was a labor of love, and widely shared as basically the only way to experience homestuck in its original state, especially after viz media let the homestuck website completely die (it's no longer functional at all, there's no way they don't know about it at this point, they just don't give a shit).

anyways, hussie (the creator of homestuck) has been fighting the UHC over control of the project, and officially forced them to take it down as of yesterday. from what I can tell, hussie supported the project, they just wanted complete control ((which was impossible to do because UHC is an open source project under the gnu public license)). the homestuck team has their own fork of the project, which they might decide to fix up and release and become everyone's savior, who knows.