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Velika no


Wrinkledlion X

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Okay, so I know I'm not active on here anymore, but these 2015 rumors are drawing me back to my old internet haunts.

 

I just wanted to say: does anyone else completely disapprove of this Velika-as-a-Great-Being twist? I remember Velika and the other Voya Nui Matoran being a huge breath of fresh air when they were introduced, because it was a return to the fun, quirky Matoran characters we used to see back in MNOLG times. Why does every character who's a bit of an oddball have to have some secret evil agenda? why can't we just have fun

 

Anyway, I hope this plot thread is dropped when Bionicle comes back, assuming it isn't just a reboot anyways.

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I totally agree with you.

 

Velika's riddles were fun.  Turns out the entire time he was doing a villain monologue just nobody understood what he meant.  :(

 

:music:

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The most annoying part is that it was an unnecessary twist that never even mattered because the story stopped before it could matter. Maybe if we had seen how the story was going to unfold, how he would act, etc etc it would be different, but as it was revealed....

 

It's just sorta: "hey I'm not updating the serials anymore

 

P.S.:Velika is an evil murderous Great Being. Toodles!"

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Wait, Velika was supposed to be villainous? I mean, I knew he was a Great Being, but a villainous one?

 

Goes to show just how much I was paying attention...

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Well, S&T people could probably argue that he's just misguided and that he thinks he's doing the right thing and so he's not really evil and blah blah blah but who cares. He's killed some people and had plans to kill many, many more. He was definitely set up to be a villain in 2010-11's story, except, well, it never happened.

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:shrugs: I think making him an evil villain is more fun, as it leads to a lot more fun story possibilities. 

I think the problem is that it's not like any of those possibilities are going to ever be explored in-canon, and because of Greg's writing style we also have no idea what he was actually going to do.

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:shrugs: I think making him an evil villain is more fun, as it leads to a lot more fun story possibilities. 

I think the problem is that it's not like any of those possibilities are going to ever be explored in-canon, and because of Greg's writing style we also have no idea what he was actually going to do.

 

And because of Greg's writing style Greg doesn't have any idea what Velika was going to do.

 

But yeah, agreed about it being a dumb twist. So many of the last few years' twists and surprises seemed to exist to purposefully complicate and contradict established canon, as if the mark of a serious and mature, well-built world was endless detail and specification, versus a lived-in feeling with a believable history and peoples.

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I so wanted it to be someone from the very beginning of the story. 

 

That would have had the most impact, but no.  No, you had to choose the "safe" option...

 

AND HEWKII AND MACKU IS SO CANON, YOU JERK!

 

-mumble grumble-

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