You are trying to analyze. You are looking for underneath the underneath. There is none of that here. There is no deep characterization, there is only
crack. Watch the arc of the story. read the authors notes. He started out with a cunningly constructed world, but he let that fall apart, and now he is
simply having fun with it. The story... I would say that it jumped the shark, but that is not quite right. It jumped a shark. Then it said "hey. That
shark was insufficiently large. Let us find another." It worked its way up the shark family until it ran out of progressively larger sharks to jump, and
has recently begun simply driving across beached whales.
I'm not saying it's bad for what it is - honestly, as far as Mary-Sue add-another-to-the-harem crackfic goes, it's pretty high quality - and it
does still seem to have a group of readers who enjoy the ride for what it is - but what it is now, and what it was when it started are two rather different
things.
crack. Watch the arc of the story. read the authors notes. He started out with a cunningly constructed world, but he let that fall apart, and now he is
simply having fun with it. The story... I would say that it jumped the shark, but that is not quite right. It jumped a shark. Then it said "hey. That
shark was insufficiently large. Let us find another." It worked its way up the shark family until it ran out of progressively larger sharks to jump, and
has recently begun simply driving across beached whales.
I'm not saying it's bad for what it is - honestly, as far as Mary-Sue add-another-to-the-harem crackfic goes, it's pretty high quality - and it
does still seem to have a group of readers who enjoy the ride for what it is - but what it is now, and what it was when it started are two rather different
things.