Quote:He is a hundred levels above Skysaber and Skysaber is a trainwreck with a keyboard. He manages to trainwreck the fic and then hides in a closet (sometimes for months) for doing much, much worse at disguising rants of his... his last story was the classic example. GL only stayed together by making itself an SI that spend 75% of the story doing ranting asides. There was more 'asides' than story. The story was based on the theory if Skysaber possed Lockhart he'd declare his operating theory is 'Mind rape and Soul eating is made of win'. People, including Bob, praised it and wondered when the story would trainwreck into the creaming goodness of its death rant.
The story sounds too much like authorial rants disguised as character rants, if you get my meaning.
More important that Skysaber''s ego, the reason Naruto has so much fanfiction is the same reason as what makes Harry Potter and Ranma 1/2 have so much fanfiction. Its because it makes people think they can do better. This is the essessence of the largeest faccet of fanfiction. Another way to put it is good idea, bad execution.
As of part 19, I note that this Naruto is probablely going to have to deal with a Sakura that wants to improve herself. This concept will blow this Naruto's mind. Sakura coasts through the cannon series until about the point that Sasuke runs off. At which point she actually does something. Always remeber that Sakura, Naruto, Sasuke, and the rest are 12. Speaking as someone who has lived with a fangirl as a sister I know what they are like. You have to traumatise them to ween them off being a fangirl, in stages. Sakura acts like a fangirl, at least early series. She gets traumatised into a more sane person as the series progresses. Which is noraml for fangirls.
This Naruto has done basically everthing I said he would. His problem is going to remain the same... he has to get past the divergence point from the series. He stayed in town to jump the Box of Silence.... while his teammates got juiced by Gaara and he then Gaara perfect slaughters Leaf. This loop is what it will take to get him to pull his head out of its warm, blinding confines, which just hasn't changed.