User blog comment:Mrdaimion/FU Acceptance Blog/@comment-1874924-20110802002353

Congrats on winning FU. As for your stories, the preview was well done, although I'm not sure the premise is going to be my cup of tea. I'm sorry to hear the TDI-T2 is apparently on life support; I thought it had potential.

As for my commenting, I try to give detailed feedback, because that's how a young writer improves. As you've seen from my activity on talk pages and blog discussions, I'm not really a "chitchat" poster--I only speak when I think I have something of substance to say--so how I managed to rack up 3500 edits in 18 months is something I may never understand.

Regarding your Top 5 unfinished stories, I have no quarrel with the placement of any of the stories that I'm familiar with. I love TDNC, but it's on a pace to finish at well over 700K words; and at the rate it's going, I may be (literally) dead of old age by the time it's done. (The wiki's longest completed story, Total Drama: The Production, is about 110K words, and both TDI:FYE and LTDI will probably clock in at 200-250K when they're finished, so you can see just how massive TDNC would be.)

In addition to the points you mentioned in favor of TDI:FYE, I'll add another: The characters behave according to their stated archetypes, which is more than can be said for some competition stories. As for my own story, there is an in-universe reason why the LTDI characters will be more realistic than their canon counterparts. That reason, of course, is the Storyteller's insider perspective.