From: Ness26 | #029
If a story needs to have an author blogging and answering questions so people can understand what's going on, I don't think that's very good story telling.
I disagree. It's just a story telling you don't particularly like. You don't NEED the author to tell you things in Homestuck, it's just most people don't understand it because, frankly, they're not all that bright. And that's okay. Not everyone needs to be.
But, well, lemme just ironically (lol) copy paste one of Andrew's responses to a question from awhile ago.
The thing is, Homestuck is both a story and a puzzle, by design and by definition. If asked to define it, “a story that’s also a puzzle” is as close to true as any answer I’d give.
Should all entertainment be like that? No way. But something should be like that, because something like that should exist. That’s why puzzles exist, because puzzles are cool sometimes, and are challenging. We don’t go up to a jigsaw puzzle and go, “why the f*** is this in so many different PIECES, what kind of IDIOT would break this nice picture into TINY LITTLE BITS?!!” Nor do we want all of our nice pictures broken into bits like that. Some we just want to hang on walls and look at.
But unlike a jigsaw puzzle, there’s much to enjoy without having to solve it. Fun characters and silly moments. But if you turn your brain on, you can engage with the complexity and depth. If you turn it ALL the way on, you can get everything, and solve the puzzle. There is a range of ways to interface with it, from the casual to the maniacal. Failing to grasp everything shouldn’t preclude basic enjoyment, nor is it a symptom of failure by either the reader or the story.
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