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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4330645" data-attributes="member: 32536">I'll throw in another round of agreement with Wolfwood.I was practically cheering for haley in the first several panels of this comic. Things were actually happening, and the plot was finally beginning to go somewhere with some of the elements introduced so long ago. The Mark of Justice was activated, and Haley finally started treating Belkar like she should have this entire time. And then their memories were erased and it was all back to usual (other than some added barfing...).Pretty much, the entire memory erasure thing does one of two things as far as I can tell:1) It will delay the repercussions of Belkar activating the mark of Justice for a while, until everyone figures out what must have happened and go through all of this again.2) It completely mitigates the repercussions of Belkar murdering the Oracle, and results in a return to the status quo.Both of these results would be terrible writing. Possibility 1 just wastes time and leads to unneeded repetition, and Possibility 2 is essentially just a guarantee that "the status quo is god" and that the core party dynamic of Roy, Haley, Durkon, Elan, V, and evil Belkar will continue for the life of the comic with no real threat of change.Ugh, "their memory was erased" has to be right up there alongside "it was all a dream" as an absolutely terrible plot twist. I hated the "memory erasing border" concept back when it was first introduced, but it is worse to think that the whole thing might have been set up just to pull this pathetic plot turn off.Rich Burlew may be able to pull off some truly good moments of humor once and a while, but he is a far cry from being a skilled writer, particularly for the webcomic format. I really think he should have just kept OoTS a joke comic like it was in the beginning, and if that didn;t work out he should have just let it die and started something new. Transitioning a humor comic into a heavy plot comic is nearly impossible to pull off, and OoTS didn't have a very good foundation for that transition in the first place. It would have been a lot easier to just end OoTS early and start a new story that was serious from the beginning.</blockquote>

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