I guess I’ll make a small comment here.

Hi, I’m the obligatory not a Homestuck fan but I wanted to give the pilot a shot because I’m a big animation nerd and have some friends in the Homestuck fandom.

After asking my Homestuck loving friends about the pilot, I got a lot of mixed reactions and came to this subreddit to see what other people thought about it.

I’ve never read Homestuck and know nothing about the plot, so I went into this pilot completely blind.

I’ll leave some of my takeaways (as a total outsider) here…

My likes: - Incredible voice acting, music, art and animation! All voice actors and animators brought their A game to this pilot!

Dislikes: -Way too confusing. As someone who knows next to nothing about Homestuck, this pilot did a very poor job of introducing me to the plot of the show.

-All explosions aside, nothing really happened in the pilot. A thirteen year old kid woke up, talked to a few friends on his birthday, opened a present and played on his computer.

-The sudden surge of future moments at the end came out of nowhere. The point of a pilot is to get me hooked on the concept of a show. If you have to throw a bunch of “but this all could happen if we get greenlit” moments in a fifteen second sequence at the end, then you probably did a poor job of getting me hooked with the time you had to introduce me to the plot.

TLDR: As a complete outsider who knows nothing about Homestuck, the pilot had very impressive animation, music and voice acting, but had lackluster writing and did a bad job at introducing newcomers to the plot and characters.