Just to give an idea about how wretched this fic is: To this day, I have yet to watch an entire episode of Evangelion all the way through. I do have the first three volumes of the manga, though. Anyway, when I first read this fic (well, the MST) I was roughly 12 years old. So, to recap - a preadolescent who was entirely unfamiliar with any of the characters or plot details that it worked on, and even I could tell it was disgraceful to the source material.
I'm just baffled at how someone who isn't the age I was then writing anything like this. It boggles the mind. What rational human being writes about a 16 year old Air Force pilot/professional wrestler/world famous musician without even a hint of irony or satirical intent? What line of thought leads one to the conclusion that any of this isn't a baldfaced affront to everything the original series stands for? This keeps me up at night, and I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not insane.
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Tacitus' review
To paraphrase a famous golden robot, this fic has everything, all wrong. Atrocious writing, inane dialogue, formulaic and repetitive scripts, pointless scenes that exist solely to boost the author's ego, stupid monsters, plot holes, abuses of scale both physical and temporal...and to cap it off, one of the worst author avatars/Marty Stus in history. Its mere existence improves the quality of every other fanfic, and will make you appreciate more refined Sues and Stus from 'fics you previously sneered at. Fortunately, Elmer Studios' treatment turns this paragon of suck into something entertaining. Chapter One's in the link on the rec page, and you can either navigate the Elmer Studios site to find the other installments in this 13-part series, or change the number before the ".txt." in the page's url. Or, if you want a quick sample, just hit the Random DELTA Invasion Episode Generator
for an uncannily close approximation of an average chapter.