[ SECRET POST #129 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #129 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 78 secrets from Secret Submission Post #019.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 15th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

At the risk of exposing myself as a hopeless - well, I don't quite know what I would be, but I would clearly be a hopeless one: am I the only one here who actually kind of likes Megatokyo?

I'm by no means a rabid fan: I can't even adequately explain quite why I still like it, still less put up a spirited defense of it. I'm definitely not blind to its faults, and I've stopped reading once or twice for no reason other than loss of patience. Still, it's the one webcomic I keep coming back to and one of the few I check regularly. Maybe it's just a bad addiction; maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment. But for whatever reason, while it's by no means my favorite webcomic out there, nor the best one I've ever read, I happen to find it enjoyable, if only on its own level. Really, it doesn't matter if nobody else agrees with me: think what you like about it. But I find it pleasant, in a quiet kind of way, and don't quite understand why that alone should make me 'suck'.

I can see it's got problems, and I can understand why people wouldn't like it. But, speaking totally personally, I don't think it's all that bad - and, for the record, I have never aspired to be 'the shit' courtesy of my taste in webcomics. Every fandom has its share of idiots, but it's pretty idiotic to assume that makes everyone who likes that series an idiot by default.

[levikitty.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one.

Megatokyo is the type of comic that's better read in large chunks. (As opposed to say, 8-bit Theatre) Otherwise, you lose interest easily waiting for update to update. It's a lot easier to understand what's going on when you read it sequentially.

The reason the beginning is so bad is because Fred drew the first comics to get Rodney to shut up about doing a comic. After the split, it started to take a new direction. MT is the comic that asks you to throw away rationality to enjoy it. Yes, there are Rent-a-zillas running around. Yes, there's girl who's a PS2 accessory, but that's a big part of it, the blending of fantasy and reality. They mix so much you can't tell which is which anymore, or if there was a difference in the first place.

Because, admit it, a lot of us would love to live in a world where zombies have to submit their rampages beforehand and ninjas and magical girls roam everywhere among us.