Unpopular opinions on Homestuck

Maybe unpopular opinion: If Hussie threw a PSYCHE at us for Act 6 and focused on the Beforus Trolls for most of the story with the Alpha Kids becoming somewhat minor characters, I think the story would have been better off for it.

Your hypothesis was that Black Rom was an artificial construct invented by Alternians to help maintain their social structure yes? I'm saying that the existence of Black Rom in other species indicates that it is possible to be a natural biological function, since I can't conceive of how it'd be an artificial construct to them as it serves little to no purpose to Carapacians and their social structure.

Who knows? Perhaps a Sburb Session carries over effects and attributes from recent player species. Perhaps Skaia believes that a species with Blackrom makes the best Exiles. Perhaps Carapacians are actually some ancient race of players who through some sort of shenanigans have been coopted into the workings of Sburb, much like the mitochondria of earthly eukaryotes.

Unpopular Opinion(I think): People take the 'Gamzee is immortal' thing way too seriously. character!Hussie was clearly joking when he said it, and even if he wasn't, the character admitted at another point that he wasn't omniscient. Despite that, a lot of people seemed to have taken "Gamzee = Immortal" as some sort of fundamental principle of reality that can never be broken. His tenacity and ability to get involved with everything can easily be explained through mundane means, he's not as mysterious or magical as some people seem to think he is.

If it was just a Joke Theory about him then fine. But multiple times I've seen people attempt to debunk certain theories and speculations on the grounds that it had Gamzee die and that simply can't happen. Or when people say that it was Gamzee's death that made Game Over a Doomed Timeline, all that other stuff was just noise and decoration.

It kind of doesn't need all that much.

Well if he left it for a couple more years then yes I'm sure he'd slowly lose interest, but that's not needed. As others have pointed out, the technical accomplishment of the end flashes, plus the other projects in the works shows he still has a lot of passion for Homestuck, enough to fuel his work ethic for a few more months at least, and a few months of updates to just tidy things up would've made the ending much better.

I don't think Homestuck's funny. I mean, I generally find it amusing, and there have been one or two times where I laughed out loud at something....but overall I just don't think it's funny.

On a similar note, Hussie can't balance comedy and drama, as far as I can tell. It's a rare talent that he just does not posses to a great degree.

I half-agree with this one.

While I disagree that she should have stayed dead, because her beatdown is probbably the most badass thing any of the trolls ever did onscreen, she just then... stopped doing anything. And went nowhere.

... Oddly enough, I feel practically the opposite: I think Homestuck has good humor, but it doesn't drama very well. And I suppose because of that I didn't mind the mood whiplash that Homestuck likes to do because it contributes to the humor and there wasn't much serious drama to ruin anyway.

Hmm, I'm pretty surprised by this opinion re: comedy in Homestuck. Maybe it's because I read a lot of the dialogue out loud, producing more "laugh lines"?

But more importantly I always felt the mood whiplash was a vital narrative mechanic. I think most of us can agree that the machinations of Paradox Spaxe are a vast, cruel cosmic joke on our heroes. So it seems natural to expect that nothing serious can be free from some macabre mockery, and that nothing jovial can be free from some undertone of horror.

I'm thinking particularly of when Aranea topples a house onto the tragically power-mad Jade, causing her very real and distressing death... And then we're forced to read "THIS IS WHAT THE REFRANCE." It's jarring, but it's for a reason: everything is going all screwy and meaningless.

It just never seemed to me like Hussie was really the one behind the mood whiplash in-universe. That felt to me like the hand of LE.

For me it's actually nothing to do with schadenfreude! And I found that the macabre brutality paid off more effectively the more I cared about characters who died in stupid ways. It was the same with the shaving cream bomb, and Equius getting turned on by his death, and "THIS IS STUPID/pchoooo" seguing directly into The Calsprite timeline. At these moments, we are screaming, but Paradox Space is laughing.

So I guess in my experience it was never as simple as "Oh, a SBaHJ refrance here, of all places? Hilarious!" Rather, it was "Wow, this sequence is emotionally exhausting - and now SBaHJ??? Jeez!! You conniving bastard." (Followed by a chuckle in disbelief). As a Homestuck reader, my investment in the characters is innately worthy of punishment, because that's the world Caliborn prepared.

I mean, I can totally understand why those reading a conventional story would be infuriated by the Whiplash Thing and never like it. But it was integral to my Personal Homestuck Enjoyment Quotient! (Or PeHEQ, if we wanna start quantifying this nonsense).

I actually got to agree with the second one. A lot of people love the girls in the comic, and I do agree that they're a main highlight but their character arcs became just as bad as the boys in the end. I think the strider's arcs were the only one I was somewhat satisfied with in the end.

Anyway:

I'm not a huge fan of Davepeta (not sure if this is an unpopular opinion)
Gamzee's arc should have been explored more rather than what he was given (once again, not sure if this is an unpopular opinion)
Nepeta was an annoying and terrible character.
Jade Harley is the second best kid, only below Dave. 
I don't get why Bro's abuse was getting treated as something very serious, but the fight scene with John and Dad never gets talked about (I mean John was attacking Dad with a hammer). Same with Rose and her mum. I didn't like how the comic picked and chose what abuse to take seriously.
JohnRoxy is a boring ship. I still think that JohnVris was a perfect ship, but that's just me.
Eridan was an interesting character and I liked him more than Feferi, Gamzee, Nepeta and Equius. Those four were terrible characters.
Vrisrezi is a terrible and unhealthy ship, and those two have better relationships with other characters than each other. I mean they probably did had a good friendship but we were never shown it so... *shrug*
I don't like a lot of popular fan headcanons, like how with Karkat is portrayed to be a precious baby with a giant sweater.
On the topic of Karkat, I actually didn't like the way he was portrayed in the final moments of Homestuck and I thought a lot of his lines were OOC. It was like he became what his fans thought his was.