Talk:A Dead Bart Update/@comment-24166078-20131114124355/@comment-17720562-20140331192246

Agreed, the original Dead Bart is overrated in my humble opinion. My main issues with it it that it's trying  to be more than what it is. I mean if it would have just been a more down to earth lost episode story claiming that Matt Groening made an episode while in a very depressing period of his life that was never aired and that somehow a guy got it of the web and that he was freak out by how violent and depressing it is that would have been fine... but no. I mean, why is the show predincing  the future and possibly the apocalypse, anyway ? When claming something so abnormal, it beg for an explanation (most likely a supernatural one!) Just say that Matt was doing heavy drugs while making the episode and his "predictions" despite being true were part of his trip, that he was part of a Satanic cult and that the devi he worship told him that about the dates (very farfeshed but at least it doen'T came out of nowhere), that he was an undiagnoticated psychosic that had some sort of delirium that "make him see the future" and that he was later given medicine to be "cure" or something like that.

Sure leaving a certain mistery and not explaining everything can make your story better but the way it was done in Dead Bart and the mystery it hide from us itself was not really good. To me, it's just feel tacked on like "what else could I add to make the story creepier? I know let's just add apocalyptic shit in !" Yes, the concept of the apocalypse can creepy or even frighting but it need build up.

To the author: So yeah followin in the same crooked foot step of the original was not the greatest idea. You should have add more stuff to further the story and even fix the flaws of the original like i like that we finaly know the "joke" that Homer was suppoesed to tell us but more context on how Matt and thus the show can predict the future would have been very nice (to me almost menditory).

So... my rating 4/10