If you say so. I think it's one of the most entertaining Buffy fanfics that I've read in a long, long time. The author gets Xander's voice perfectly in the early chapters, and he transitions Xander's personality into the "Alex" persona perfectly as well. YMMV.
I find it interesting that the guy who wrote this review — of a story by a writer who calls himself \"Worldmaker\" — would call himself \"Worldbreaker\". Could the reviewer be more obvious in his personal dislike for the author? Methinks his criticism is driven less by the quality of the story and more by the fact that he hates Worldmaker.
And the story isn\'t about Super!Xander at all! It only tricks you into believing it is at first, and then comes the Wham Episode regarding Alex\'s real origins.
To Big Jared Monkey:
There is no personal animosity with the author. Sorry that you couldn't handle any negative criticism regarding his works.
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An interesting concept with a sloppy execution.
While I have no love for Super Xander fics I have read a few that have had its share of entertaining merits. This fic is more mean spirited than entertaining.
Throughout the whole story I had a hard time deciding who should I root for.
The "protagonist" in question is more villainous than the villains that she fights. The characters, if one can call them that, are so OOC that I question if the writer even bothered to do any research on them at all.
Having examined the rest of his work makes me see that fan fic writing is clearly not his strong suit. And his comments making him come off as an angsty teenager doesn't help either.
The fic was nothing more than a tool for the writer to use to get on his strawman soapbox. It also writes like he's venting his displeasure on fandoms that he despises than actually trying to write a legit story.
The only way I'd recommend this fic is if a fan fic writer, especially an upcoming one, needs an example of what not to do when writing fan fiction. And the real tragedy is that this kind of concept would have actually been decent had it fallen in the hands of a more competent fan fic writer.