>>462724The argument I've seen is that being mind-controlled by the Condesce had permanent effects on her. But if that were the case, wouldn't she be racist against humans and want the trolls to be the dominant class? Also, while ultimate Dirk's characterization makes some semblance of sense, I'd still argue that it undermines what was a fantastic character arc in the original story. It also makes ultimate Dirk look like a retard who forgot how horribly wrong everything went when he tried to be in control during SBURB.
While people failing to learn from their mistakes is definitely a thing that happens in real life, on a narrative level, it's really annoying when a character's development is undone solely for meta reasons. It happens
a lot in cape shit so they can keep making money off the same storylines over and over, and it happened here for the same reason. Homestuck clearly was not meant to have a sequel; at the end of the story, the children are literal gods who escape the author's influence. This sequel had to reckon with the fact that Homestuck ended with the kids being so absurdly overpowered that nothing poses the threat to them, so if they wanted to write a story with a villain (which isn't actually necessary) they had to have some of the kids become evil. An intelligent writer probably would have had all of the kids gradually lose their humanity after living for thousands of years, but Hussie clearly just wanted the sequel to be low-brow slop that rehashed plot elements from the first story. That means they've gotta shoehorn in SBURB, a Lord English equivalent, a years-long space flight, a Condesce equivalent, etc.
>>462782This. Also burnout and irony poisoning.