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On 2003-01-01 16:44, Gohanks wrote:
Dear god, you LIKE NXE? That thing rips Evangelion to shreds, has incredibly bad self-insertion complete with "super ultra sexy everybody loves me I'm the best in the universe"-style author avatar AND it completely changes EVERYTHING. NXE is one of the worst insults to Evangelion EVER! If it wasn't for the MSTings of it, I'd say it'd be unbearable... then again, I've never read good Evangelion fanfiction, so perhaps I'm not one to judge.
(Read the thing in parentheses below. These are NOT my views on NXE in their entirty, and they're slightly altered fior reasons I mention below.)
Heh. I love how everybody always misses that DJ is MEANT to be so danged annoying.
Of course, I rather thought he was charming, myself. Of course, that is only a shield for him, just like Asuka's temper and Shinji's shyness. If he wasn't charming, he'd be in a mental institution. Honestly, a boy has only two real choices when their mum is missing, presumed dead. He chose one. he could easily have taken Shinji's way out. The whole point of NXE is to provide contrasts to NGE. In one, the world ended. In the other, it's still around. In one, the hero was a lonely, quiet but still annoying prick. In the other, the hero was loud, obnoxious, assured, but still a prick. In one, the mythology was Kabbalist. in the other, it's Catholic. Really, NXE was much more interesting than NGE, simply because I actually bothered to care about the protagonist. Shinji's aprick with nothing going for him. DJ's at least a prick with STYLE.
(Bear in mind, this is me taking the views of someone who thinks DJ was a prick. I saw no evidence of pricklike behavior from DJ, so I can't possibly know what makes him so prickish. The guy saved Maya's freaking life, after all.)
--Oh, wait, I see what you mean . . . you think DJ's a bleeding SELF-INSERT ^^?
Excuse me while I die of laughter. DJ's so far from Gryphon's actual personality and behavior's it's unbelievable. You want to criticize him for making a too-good SI? Go read UF, and then you can yell at him. But yelling at Ben for making DJ so damn good? Look at DJ's personal history. Son of Fox Mulder and Lara Croft, trained by Lara for most of his formative years, then forced to raise himself for more years. Either he survives and becomes a person like he became, or he dies. Plain and simple. Gryphon, however, is much more loose and less athletically fit. Whatever he is, DJ he ain't. So it cracks me up when he gets called an SI. The author even said he was trying to make a complete opposite of himself. For proof, read his imaginary conversation with DJ.
Now, I really must stop laughing or else I'll pass out. Gohanks, are you by any chance related to Terry Pratchett? Because only he's ever managed to make me laugh so hard.