It's also fascinating that the author Endbringer baited people during a "NotSpacebattles Interlude" which was like 12 chapters ago and seems to have forgotten all about it. Talk about how you can fuck up the use of something as simple as cliffhangers.

 

Dont forget to change your rating if you changed your mind.

 

I actually liked this fic until the whole Empire/Danny triggering thing. After that its like a totally different story. I'm not enjoying it at all anymore.

 

Musn’t forget to get more Portopotties. They be importantzz...

Edit: Jokes aside I also dont have any idea why I’m still reading this.

 

There's something to be said about a consistent update rate.

 

The interesting bits are far too often separated by mind numbingly boring internal dialogues on the minutiae of Making Brockton Bay Great Again.

 

I think the real problem Taylor ran into was that she adhered to the government's restrictions. She had the power to really revolutionize the city and make it a futuristic one (before the S9 anyway), but she always held back because of government regulations and zoning laws. Such a weird thing to get bogged down in when the city is destroyed and she knows about Scion.

 

Thus revealed is the ultimate power of Bureaucracy.

 

Not sure I wanted to read about Taylor and Lung running a giant refugee camp tbh.

 

I didn't know this was on here, I stumbled upon it by myself the other day and devoured it quickly.

I get it, I get why we read it. Magneto is a very popular villain, it's fun to read about his powers, it's very much a power trip. And they've not stuck to the stations of canon, before or after Leviathan.

I read it and vaguely enjoyed it for the reason I used to enjoy a lot of Super Harry fics, and the reason I read things labelled as trump alt powers, even though they're invariably shit. It's enjoyable escapism.

The story is relatively shit, but ill probably read another X words if I find it again after a good amount of updates. I've certainly read shitter, not that that's a commendation.

 

I've been following this on SB since it first came out. And while I thought the last few chapters were lacking, this is the one that really annoyed me.

I originally thought that the story had taken a down turn since Leviathan, but on going back and reading it again...

The story just isn't all that great to begin with.

I enjoyed it for its "OH SHIT! VIOLENCE!" moments. But overall everything else is lacking. Leaving aside the fact that Taylor is a high functioning moron, most of the story reads like the author wanted something to happen and then made it happen regardless of how much it made sense.

Spoiler

Magnetos's helmet getting destroyed. There was absolutely no reason for that to happen outside of Cauldron interference, but the author wanted it to happen so we've got this weird moment where Jack just goes straight for it.

The space thing in this chapter. This reads like the author just said "Fuck it I want Taylor to go to space... and to bring a submarine too. Oh let's turn it into a Death Star!" There's a reason people don't go into space on Bet, and she's fucking terrifying. That's not even mentioning the whole powers thing.

So yeah, I'm done with this one.

 

I can actually read the anger in that post. Seems like you really don't enjoy the story.

I would say the point that I stopped enjoying the story was not much different than everyone else. Shayne kept bringing in these mundane talking points in a story that would probably be better served smashing things up and showing some fireworks.

Magneto was interesting as a voice but quickly became boring. Initially I liked the angle that he might turn Taylor but the second everyone in the story becomes chummy is the second I stop reading.

It's not as common a problem in Worm fanfiction I think but this story slowly became a hugbox for Taylor and her favorite city ever. The biggest conflict at this point in the story is surely the municipal government and the building codes.

Anyone remember the 5 minutes where the Teeth were a concern?

 

I enjoyed the first few chapters of this, then stuck with it for the next 10-15 because it was legible and updating practically daily. Haven't actually read this in a couple of weeks though, just skimmed the updates to see if it recovered from being shit.

I didn't really have high hopes from the beginning with how badly MagneTaylor shat on all the local villains then built a goddamn fortress while pissing off the HOA. It was fun to read for the action and the overpowered as fuck roflstomp protagonist, but now it's lost its luster. ShayneT's dialogue can be pretty awful, and they have a shit sense of pacing, going from epic kaiju fight to city renovation with hardly a lick of transition. Like the Heroes crossover, it was fun for a few chapters but it just dragged on forever with pointless meandering and intergalactic trade negotiations and roll calls or whatever the mundane drudgery happens to be on the docket for the day.

No-selling big bads like the S9 and Butcher without an appropriate replacement challenge is pretty lame. Magneto himself is shaping up to be a potential endgame antagonist along with Zion, but the development from here to there is lacking, and so far the attempts at intrigue have not impressed me.

Initially I would have put it at a 3, maybe 4/5. Overall, now I'd generously rate it 2/5.

 

I read this, and it really wasn't that terrible (being completed on a reasonable schedule helps a lot too), but it definitely lacked a certain something the better ShayneT stories used to have, that spark of interesting originality that made "Legend" and "The Many Deaths of Harry Potter" special fics that I still remember enjoying. His Worm stories seem to just be following the spacebattles formula of take crossover power insert into OOC Taylor clone rinse repeat (he has a new DBZ one now.) In a way I blame the rut that Spacebattles got the Worm fandom into as much as ShayneT himself, the honey trap got him but good.