FoZ suffers from a common syndrome of shows.Almost good enough. Basically, there are all sorts of interesting bits to latch onto and memorable enough characters... but the way the series goes about it just leaves people with a need to fix it. This need to fix it leads to people repeatedly talking about the series... and arguing how to fix it. A self contained, engaging, well written series that wasn't mind shatteringly good will often fall into obscurity. Cameo fodder. Those series just don't stick with you. Now a series that is engaging enough to keep you watching, but riddled with irksome things... that attracts fanfiction.
If you take a series that has crazy amounts of fanfiction... your going to find that the series is engaging yet irksome. Harry Potter.Ranma 1/2, Naruto, Bleach... seriously Bleach some repeat the first main arc badly..., what they have in common is people feel the need to change something and have enough actual intrest to focus on it long enough to write something. Granted Yaoi fangirls (and other demented shippers) are doing distresting amounts of this, but the point stands.
With FoZ main issue people have is that Saito is irritating. He isn't evil enough to be worth hating. He isn't cool enough to like. Just a loser with a bad attitude (often hard to blaim him though). One who get powers and occassionally does cool things like stalling an army of 20 thousand. Solo. But he just seems such a bad choice for someone perfect for her. *shrug* Basically, your doomed to keep thinking of who would make a better summon and wanting to throttle the male lead. OTOH you may find out that the reason Saito is 'perfect' for Loius and that he is about as nice as Louis' mind can take before uncanny valley mode sets in. So much focus on dominance games and dickery intwined with relattionships on that world, that Saito is the equivalent of the Nice Guy Harem Magnet... a sad thing really.
So you can watch FoZ now... but your going to be seeing it with an different bend than you would have beforehand.
Great. Now I want someone to write a FoZ crossover that feature a male lead that is a nice guy loser with a good attitude... and the girls are bouncing between attraction to the exotic and thinking of that kind of personality only existing in romance novels. As a cover for some Lovecraftian Horror from Beyond Space and Time. Later on it turns out that the people that write these books are working from a LHfBSaT that had foreseen his arrival and spent the past hundred odd years setting things up to make all the girls paranoid.
If you take a series that has crazy amounts of fanfiction... your going to find that the series is engaging yet irksome. Harry Potter.Ranma 1/2, Naruto, Bleach... seriously Bleach some repeat the first main arc badly..., what they have in common is people feel the need to change something and have enough actual intrest to focus on it long enough to write something. Granted Yaoi fangirls (and other demented shippers) are doing distresting amounts of this, but the point stands.
With FoZ main issue people have is that Saito is irritating. He isn't evil enough to be worth hating. He isn't cool enough to like. Just a loser with a bad attitude (often hard to blaim him though). One who get powers and occassionally does cool things like stalling an army of 20 thousand. Solo. But he just seems such a bad choice for someone perfect for her. *shrug* Basically, your doomed to keep thinking of who would make a better summon and wanting to throttle the male lead. OTOH you may find out that the reason Saito is 'perfect' for Loius and that he is about as nice as Louis' mind can take before uncanny valley mode sets in. So much focus on dominance games and dickery intwined with relattionships on that world, that Saito is the equivalent of the Nice Guy Harem Magnet... a sad thing really.
So you can watch FoZ now... but your going to be seeing it with an different bend than you would have beforehand.
Great. Now I want someone to write a FoZ crossover that feature a male lead that is a nice guy loser with a good attitude... and the girls are bouncing between attraction to the exotic and thinking of that kind of personality only existing in romance novels. As a cover for some Lovecraftian Horror from Beyond Space and Time. Later on it turns out that the people that write these books are working from a LHfBSaT that had foreseen his arrival and spent the past hundred odd years setting things up to make all the girls paranoid.