Comments like these make me not want to read the fan fic at all, and make me question the accuracy of the troper adding these praise-littered descriptions of the fic-in-question.
I really, really dislike what you've said here, and I'm going on a voyage to disprove most of the effectively blissful entries made about this fic.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
Don't turn this into an argument, please.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Why exactly do people say that this respects and understands canon? Completely derailing a hell of a lot of characters and making Shinji into a God-Mode Sue does not equal understanding canon. Neither canon, to be perfectly honest.
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If I had to guess, I'd say it's because it was somehow decided that making a story painfully over-the-top or replacing the cast with people who are nothing like their originals somehow makes it automatically good. Somewhere along the line, crazy-awesomeness became positively-correlated with accuracy and (even more inexplicably) quality in the eyes of quite a lot of people, regardless of the actual content.
If he was going to do that, he might as well have just written a brand new story. Actually, he did do that, since whatever you'd like to call this story or whether or not you enjoy it, it's neither Evangelion nor 40K.
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Whoa, Bpen redacted ch. 44? When did that happen?
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The problem with this fic is that now when I watch the new Evangelion movies I'm going to want them to be Shinji and Warhammer 40k. That's right; I like this more than canon.
Thats the problem EVERY fan of this series is getting. I seriously CANNOT watch any of the series or movies without finding myself confused "why is Shinji acting that way? where are your titan modules? when did you start whin-oh right this is the 'canon' series"
Was this fic the first fanfic ever to receive its own dedicated page on TV Tropes? (Squall; wasn't signed in when I wrote this)
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No, but it's stalled; I e-mailed Bpen a coupla months ago about something on the trope page, and he said as much. I think it's been averaging 5-6 months between updates, so it shouldn't be too terribly much longer before the next chapter's posted.
Well he does write faster than I do. XD Why aren't we paying him for this? He needs a donate link.
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Hmmm... Would one say that the prologue is a bit of a warning to readers of how long the chapters are before they proceed, and not Hype Aversion?
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I came here to say just one thing:
Thank you.
Thank you SO MUCH, TV Tropes. It is because of you that I discovered this amazing story. This fanfic is deeply, DEEPLY satisfying.
It's true; I like it more than the original show. I wish this WAS the original show. I wish I could go back in time, hand them this fanfic as a script, and say, "YOU ARE DOING THIS INSTEAD." Even though it would create a reality-rending paradox, it would be worth it ;_; so worth it.
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