Wendigoon Thread

>skip half an hour in
>hunter still doing the shitty accent
And I’m out
The bit overstays its welcome ten minutes in and there's four hours worth of story, I don't know if I can watch the whole thing. The new intro is cool, though, I hope it stays.
Also, why do so many stories they read start off really strong than peter out near the end?
 
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Also, why do so many stories they read start off really strong than peter out near the end?
Serialization. It's a double-edged sword. While it does lower the barrier to entry and the level of commitment to get your work out there, (inexperienced) writers use it as a crutch to lower the amount of work they have to do to the absolute minimum to get their stories posted. Quite literally figuring out the story as they're going along. And the story as a whole (if they do manage to get it completed) ends up a multicolored patchwork of random ideas and executions that rarely add up to any satisfying image. And if any serious issues crop up while writing, then the writer's SOL unless you want to retcon your own work as you're still writing it, DFE, or pretend you never made shit until everyone forgets all about it, and try again. but now you've ruined the surprise and have to step up and make something bigger and better than the last, and who has the patience to go through all that?
 
The bit overstays its welcome ten minutes in and there's four hours worth of story, I don't know if I can watch the whole thing. The new intro is cool, though, I hope it stays.
Also, why do so many stories they read start off really strong than peter out near the end?
A lot of modern media is based on concepts. It's more important to put your hook so people would notice than actually develop an idea to have a satisfying conclusion so people remember it. Naturally a lot of those "cool ideas" end up shitting themselves in short order once the premise has done with and they need to actually open the mystery box.
 
I thought Petscop was pretty cool back when it was new. I never quite understood what happened with it, I've seen tons of people say there's outright poonery and others say that poonery is only one interpretation of it.

The fact that there's even room for interpretation isn't thrilling but I would be interested in actually learning what the hell was going on with it for myself.
 
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I'm waiting to see if Wendigoon is going to go with the tranny shit or not.

I remember following Petscop starting around the time episode three or four came out. I've never been a fan of the "Paul is Care" theory, outside of versions of the theory where Care is a symbolic representation of Paul (i.e., fake child is a stand-in for Paul, who was actually traumatized by Marvin).

That being said, as much as I like Petscop, it is a extremely messy web series disguised as "up to interpretation."
 
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I'm waiting to see if Wendigoon is going to go with the tranny shit or not.

I remember following Petscop starting around the time episode three or four came out. I've never been a fan of the "Paul is Care" theory, outside of versions of the theory where Care is a symbolic representation of Paul (i.e., fake child is a stand-in for Paul, who was actually traumatized by Marvin).

That being said, as much as I like Petscop, it is a extremely messy web series disguised as "up to interpretation."
I liked Petscop a lot and the pooner troonshit never really popped out to me. I think it's a bigger reach than people are willing to say because god forbid you tell troons something isn't about them.

I always thought Care was like a dead twin/kid, got hit with a car crossing a street or something. Been a while. Feel like it's Paul's dead sister though and Paul has trauma-induced amnesia from multiple different deaths that happen in front of him.
 
The bit overstays its welcome ten minutes in and there's four hours worth of story, I don't know if I can watch the whole thing. The new intro is cool, though, I hope it stays.
Also, why do so many stories they read start off really strong than peter out near the end?
Because the story has to end, there's no good endings for most stories and having even an ok one is notable.
 
Without spoiling the theory, Wendigoon doesn't go down the tranny route. Thank God.
I was really glad for this. I fell in love with the Petscop vids but hated how every review of it was full of commie/tranny garbage for really no reason.
Do we know that there are tranny themes or is it open to interpretation and trannies take advantage of that?
There are no outright tranny themes, it's about as tranny as Yume Nikki, if you have played that.
That being said, as much as I like Petscop, it is a extremely messy web series disguised as "up to interpretation."
I agree with this. As much as I love Petscop, narratively it is incomplete and I think it's purposeful but not for an artistic reason. I think the creator originally had a coherent narrative but when he saw he had a bunch of rabid tween tumblr-type fans he chickened out in continuing whatever he was doing. I'm certain the narrative was going to be darker and say more about child abuse but the creator dropped it because it would be "problematic." You can see this in how he stopped using the Newmaker name halfway into the videos because people were calling him a horrible person for referencing Candice Newmaker.
Before he made Petscop, he already used a bunch of the characters and themes in a short story he wrote called Tapers, which you can still find online. It's weird, full of child abuse that's described in a strange way, and surreal, and definitely darker than Petscop. The creator basically told people not to read it or read into it because supposedly none of it is related to Petscop, but if you read it... I feel like you get a better idea of where the story was going before he felt he had to reign it in or get cancelled. I'm sure if he sees this he'd scoff and say it was his plan all along or it's good that he changed or whatever, but I think it's the truth.
And I do really wish we could see what the original story was supposed to be. It's a shame we'll never know.
 

Pretty good story, if kinda mediocre at times. The "twist" was blatantly obvious from the very beginning. Part of it was the title and thumbnail admittedly, but with a horror story involving rich people you can expect all manner of satanic worship / human sacrifice, murder, organ harvesting, etc. to take place. Frankly I'm surprised they weren't trafficking the children with everything else that they were doing. Not to say it's not rooted in reality, but this trope is so common now it's become cliché now. I'd almost prefer stories would do some kind of Lovecraft thing and pin the horrible shit on poor people and minorities for a change.

Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to have a whole restaurant dedicated solely to killing its clientele. With such mass murder on an almost industrial scale, all towards the upper echelons of society, somebody somewhere is bound to notice all the disappearances. At the very least how are the families not noticing their loved ones missing? Not everyone is totally estranged from their families, you know (unless this is actually an exotic and highly elaborate suicide thing and not some murder restaurant, based on Dwayne's comments). It'd be far more believable if this was on the outside just a normal, if highly-secretive and ultra-exclusive restaurant that also did hits on people if you knew to ask.

Writing was fine for the most part, though it did delve into shitty purple prose at times, particularly that one line when he's talking to the old lady that was really annoying.
 
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I liked this one a good bit. It has some room for a little bit better dialogue and speeds past or drops some potentially interesting plot points, but handles things well has a nice twist and an ending that isn't total dogshit.

Hunter says something like "The ending feels like And we're done" and while I agree, I'd rather have a sudden "We're done" that isn't trash as opposed to the absolute dogshit we've seen. Well okay unless that dogshit is entertaining. I do love how bad Deepwoods becomes.
 
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