SilentWindODoom
Well-Known Member
I admit that I overstated the disconnect between the two, but could you specify which key ideas the queue sets up for the ride? The first Tiana animatronic in any case tells us that we’re on the hunt for animal musicians for her party. Does knowing more than that really change anything about the subsequent experience?
The first animatronic has a number of phrases and not all of them completely set it up. Louis also refers to looking for musicians, but people said that this conflict makes no sense given everything we know about the characters.
That certainly hasn’t been my complaint, nor has it been the loudest complaint voiced by others. The basic premise—that Tiana and Louis are in search of critter band members for her party that night—is actually pretty easy to understand and needs very little set-up. It’s what happens after we begin our journey that could use some fleshing out and tonal variety.
That wasn't specifically speaking about you. Although I can understand confusion as the vast majority of comments about the story being about it being confusing or missing, so when you just said you have problems with the story, people think you mean that.
I understood you to be saying that criticisms of the ride’s story were unjustified coming from those who weren’t taking the queue backstory into account. My point is that nothing in that backstory mitigates the major narrative issues that people have pointed to in the ride itself, particularly the lack of tension in the lead-up to the drop.
I think we’re talking at cross purposes. I am not denying that the backstory provides extra context for the main story. Some people may even find that context interesting. What I am saying is that the main story itself—with or without that extra context—lacks tension and tonal variety. Experiencing the queue doesn’t change or mitigate that.
I admit at first, I read that you meant the lack of tension as "story issues" the terminology didn't seem to fit. Like when my friend had an argument with people over whether the sandy shores of his center-of-the-continent inland lake counted as a beach. I agreed with him, but when he referred to it as "going to the beach" months later, my brain immediately said "That's not right." Just a knee-jerk reaction, but I don't know any better terminology.
But as I said, I wasn't suggesting you said the story was not reading. Just saying it's a common thing.
The ride has no story.
And the story? Is there a story?
The story is MIA as far as I can tell.
What story?
One question that I have, and I feel silly for asking it-- what is the storyline?
the little story that is there
story doesn't make sense
(whatever story is there)
AAs don’t make up for lack of story.
There’s no story
They forgot the story.
with no story
Story is almost non-existent as well.
There's no storyline.