@Wishy Washy
This, this, this. This is my biggest problem with this issue, that Cook doesn’t even seem to understand the show and characters she’s getting paid to write for, having no problem disposing of every single character’s virtues singularly or as a whole for the sake of a (usually poor anyway) joke or vehicle to drive a plot forward or whatever. Your comment touches on one of the greatly unique and wonderful things about this show and the world it takes place in that make Equestria so appealing to begin with, really simply and beautifully worded. Yet this person who’s getting paid to script this stuff can’t be asked to understand something that you’re able to convey in a few words… it’s sad.
@MLP-Silver-Quill
it… just feels weird that we need elf surrogates in a universe that features a race so in tune with nature that it perpetuates the very engines it needs to run, barring the everfree.
Weren’t we running races through the woods to help leaves fall from the thunder of hooves on ground? replanting plants and letting animals know the winter is over? you’d think with such a strong tie to nature in both literal and cultural aspect that it’d take a little more than blatant capitalism to cause this level of wasteful deforestation.
@Joshua
On the fence, leaning towards liking it. Lots of strengths working in its favor, yet there’s a very steep precipice for part 2. I will be eager to see how they resolve this story.
This comic starts out strong with action, mystery, and a new race. I love the deer designs from Prince Bramble on up to King Aspen and while Thicket may bear a resemblance to the Avatar movie, it is a fascinating place that I would enjoy learning about.
The comic loses momentum with the introduction of a greedy corporation machine that feels divorced from the earlier theme of unintended harm. The deer themselves lose intrigue as the story begins to present things in absolutes. This isn’t a case of mutual mistakes or a misunderstanding. Nope, it’s the work of evil moneymakers!
I think this story is worth a read and the second half should be interesting, yet I hope that this story won’t deal in absolutes. The deer have a right to be angry, yet they vent that rage at the wrong target. They are committing the same wrong done to them by Well-to-Do and company. Twilight and friends need to be the harmonizing force between these extremes, not side with one over the other.
@RIG
Indeed, environmentalism is an important message, and I think the comic did a good job in the first half with the theme of unintended harm.
Yet this is the part that started to lose me. We’re being presented with the absolute of an evil corporation rather than an honest mistake. The audience can’t put themselves in the place of Well-to-Do because he’s presented as something out of Ted Turner’s imagination.
@RIG
in this case the environemtn should be beating the fuck bunnies out of the minotaurs…….. maybe i am majorly overthinking it, by why wouldn’t the hostile magical wildlife, and the vines, not be attacking the minotaurs to begin with?
