Talk:1999/@comment-27816762-20160217175615

Let's look at the options we have here regarding the whole Alantutorial bit:

1. Giant is trying to make an homage to Alantutorial. If this is the case, then it is a clumsy, inelegant homage that stands out like bird feces on the hood of an otherwise-clean car. "Paint With The Soul Episode 3" is itself already a near-copy of Alan's "reveal slats of wood and dust a bed pt 2", but this wasn't as blatant as the later copying, making "How to Find Berries" still feel really jarring and nonsensical. "How to dust a room" is a bit jarring, but at least partly fits with the idea of a children's show managed by a deeply disturbed man with violent outbursts. "How to find berries", on the other hand, makes no sense and feels totally thrown in as an homage.

'''2. Giant thought they could get away with really, really blatantly stealling. '''If this is the case, it's a shame, because the rest of this pasta is quite effectively written. See, the fact that "Mr. Bear's Cellar" is similar to "Bear in the Big Blue House", and that "Boobie" is basically a worse "Oobie" is fine and makes sense, because there, the copying is on the part of the killer rather than Giant; he's making shoddy knockoffs of actual popular kids' shows so he can lure kids to his house. Copying Alantutorial doesn't get this treatment; it's not a lame copy of a 90s kids show, but instead Giant wholesale lifting part of a modern web series and pasting it into the story, apparently hoping nobody would notice. If this option is the case, then the truth is baffling and terribly disappointing.

'''3. Giant knowingly, blatantly copied Alantutorial and fully intended for people to realize this. '''If this is the case... I don't know? Some sort of self-sabotage? I guess I could see Giant being tired of writing 1999 and just wanting to kill the story so people would stop clamoring for updates, but the way it ends (talking about "continuing") doesn't feel quite like that; I'd be more accepting toward such a possibility if Elliot had said something like "I'm done. I don't want this in my life any more, I'm just done."

As it is, all I can say is that this otherwise-great pasta has been crippled, most likely permanently, by the blatant copying of another person's work.