>>5825348>backpedalingIt's fine, anon. Backpedaling being a negative thing is just a way for grumpy assholes to feel better about them never changing their opinion or admitting they're wrong.
>how the average Matoran livedIt's something G2 missed HARD. I had no idea what day-to-day life was like for ANYONE in the story. At all. I need to finish the Netflix series, but so for nothing in any of the G2 media has been anything but "uh, we have to save Okoto from the spiders/spoopies/hunter dude", which is just boring shlock nobody cares about.
>>5825349There are some other stories out there which capture specific emotions that BIONICLE had. Kill Six Billion Demons is great if you love the cosmic scale of BIONICLE's backstory, and the art of 2006-2007 (because let's face it, that art was amazing). I know I'm going to get fucking crucified for mentioning this, but fuck it. MLP:FiM captures the rapport the Toa Mata shared with each other in 2003+, albeit with less fighting. But I haven't found any world in any other form of media quite like BIONICLE's, and it's genuinely hard to find much which doesn't have humans in it at all.
>>5825359See, G2 captures what execs thought BIONICLE was about: myth and legend. Partially, yes, BIONICLE was about myth and legend, but that's not all. We didn't get ANY detail of how G2's Okoto actually functions, we just know it's under threat from a satan analogue. We then get the jesus analogue rising from the dead and fighting the good fight with our heroes, but we never get anything past that. It's just badguys being bad at people we don't care about in a world which only functions as a way to tell a story which is so flimsy as to pretty much only sell toys.
There's no mini-stories like the serials. There's no background characters like Ahkmou. There's no imposing threats like Karzahni. There's literally nothing outside of Okoto, despite the CONSTANT hints of a bigger picture in 2001-2003. I'm out of room, but god. I miss G1.
