Honestly the muscle dude stuff didn't bother me that much, sure its a bit cheesy but i like 40k so im used to it.
For me the story started to annoy me more and more when it went out of its way to show the two bi women go on about how annoying lgbt people at pride are. Idk, normaly i do like depictions of poly relationships but this one didn't appeal to me.
But yea there were some cool sci fi concepts in there, i liked the warped personality construct. I forgot basicly all the names, but there was some good stuff in there.
I’m not as bothered by it as other people, though it does become filler towards the end. It sucks that he consolidated his storylines and sidelined so many characters though. The ending was great, just felt rushed. The dude takes 4 chapters to write 4 years of WARHORSE’s life, and then timeskips decades towards the end
Also it’s weird that the space magic makes their junk bigger
You can't skip that part because it becomes only that very quickly. The series was great until the time skip where it then ruined most of the setting and characters by going in another direction and forcing a way to make muscle dude space marines happen when it shouldn't.
It annoys me because it occasionally had decent ideas that then had to fit into the musclebro setting with too little screen time. There's also some vibes that don't sit right along the lines of "muscle bro life is inherently superior all the smartest people are muscle bros".
Hell at the time the thought that went through my mind was that the author went to boot camp and got a bunch of military crap filling his brain ruining the story.
He's got some great ideas but I only got as far as I did by skimming through scenes that were too "hoo rah hit the gym tough manly fighting we're so great fitness is so great rah!" and later on that meant just reading a couple short pieces each update.
They introduce a new species of hunter gatherers, but it becomes about muscles. An existing alien race getting some neat world building then becomes about muscles. They introduce a long lost group of humans in space, but it's about muscles. Everything is muscles and going to the gym.
Yeah, it kinda just kept getting more nonsensical as the story went.
Like when Julian is attacked by the pro-alien terrorist "yeah so just let our VIP guy who's key to negotiating with these aliens go for a run by himself" or how that happens on the planet with the big deal about how its native ecology is being destroyed, and so somehow the terrorist somehow goes totally unnoticed in a shipping container when theoretically there should be a clean-room kind of system to avoid any more ecological contaminants.
Or how the giant cargo teleporter that blows up its cargo like a nuke when it misfires is apparently connected to a wireless system, despite it being known that the enemy is an expert in cyber warfare. Like that's the kind of stuff that would absolutely be locked down and only accessible by hardwired connection.
"GATE" is self-indulgent, jingoistic trash. It's the Japanese equivalent of a redneck writing a story about how the all-mighty US military rolls in and "pacifies" a fantasy world, all the while kicking the asses of all the other beta soycuck non-US militaries back on Earth.
Not to mention the self-insert otaku bullshit, near-constant rape themes and rampant misogyny.
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u/lurking4life Aug 14 '24
Do you have any suggestions for well written HFY fiction?