SpectralTime
Since: Apr, 2009
07/04/2015 00:00:00
...Ouch. I'd heard it recommended to me once as "full of ideas, most of them half-baked," and then never looked them up. A cursory glimpse at the trope page makes me glad I did.
Sounds about right.
Pannic
Since: Jul, 2009
07/05/2015 00:00:00
I'm sorry, did you say "recommended" to you?
Fanfiction I hate.
SpectralTime
Since: Apr, 2009
07/05/2015 00:00:00
It was a looooong time ago. For all I know, he might not have lost his God-damned mind yet when the recommendation was made.
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PKH 101
The main character suffers from being utterly incapable of empathy and appears able to induce that condition in others (sociopathy as plague?), the author can't stop expositing and openly prefers it over character or plot development through action, even when things do happen they're usually stupid or contrived when thought about more closely, white people are better because they're more attractive than any other race, Muslims are of the devil, nuclear war is good, and military forces do not need supplies (except when they do).
That's the short version.
Partially Kissed Hero is never boring. For a lot of people that's enough. The problem is to someone with a completed high school education, or an unwillingness to suspend their moral compass for a protagonist, or just an appreciation of the storyteller's art, it's also endlessly infuriating. The author's attempts to make their characters seem intelligent show they're not; there are threads of racism and misogyny running throughout; the morality of the heros when examined is frequently worse than that of the villains. Voldemort never brainwashed anyone into thanking him for ruling them with an iron fist. Harry does it to hundreds of people, and insults thousands more for being stupid even as he provides them sanctuary.
The glimpses into the author's mind as the story continues, such as their ranting about how Voldemort mainly tortures his followers so anyone he tortured is obviously not virtuous or their open hatred of Islam, are hard to credit as serious but expressed with the passionate sincerity of a fanatic. There are many ideas in this story that represent a kernel of something creative, but laid in the warped ground of the author such seedlings grow into impossible monsters.