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Gapaot Since: Mar, 2013
08/10/2023 21:56:04 •••

Not worth reading

It's bad, no sugarcoating it. Sure, it's a Mary Sue story, and sure, it's written with average quality but that's not what makes it bad. It's simply not a rational story. Through the fic Harry keeps being unscientific and irrational. He makes one theory and then tries to find biased evidence to support it, instead of making a proper hypothesis and testing it.

Almost all of the explicit in story science references are incorrect, as well as being overly-jargon filled. And implicitly, the method Harry relies on for the majority of his problem solving is Aristotelian science. He looks at things, thinks real hard, and knows the answer. This is horrifyingly bad implicit pedagogy, and it only works because he's a Mary Sue and therefore never wrong.

A largely forgettable, overly long nerd power fantasy, with a bit of science (most of it wrong) and a lot of bad ideas.

megagutsman (Seven Years' War)
07/29/2023 00:00:00

Umm, I checked that link and it says \"File not Found\".

SpectralTime Since: Apr, 2009
07/29/2023 00:00:00

Comments always mutilate links.

randomtroper89 Since: Nov, 2010
08/10/2023 00:00:00

I just kinda get annoyed by the reviews namespaced as Fanfic Recs, and it isn\'t necessary in this case as the fic does have a page.


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