User blog comment:Darthbane2017/Why No Such Luck is hated so much?/@comment-31022739-20170503032610

I think it's the worst episode of the show but NOT because of the reasons that most people do.

See, I don't care that the episode was "mean-spirited" to Lincoln because I refuse to remove moral culpability from his part in the story. I also don't care how disproportionate his treatment was. Cartoons often go above and beyond telling their stories outside of the grounded expectations of reality. Therefore, when things get wacky, out of hand, and "unreasonable", I often don't make a fuss about it.

I dislike it because of how boring and unfunny it was. For whatever reason, I couldn't dig any of the jokes. None of them worked and that's a gripe that's not easy to overlook. After all, if an episode's not entertaining, why should I care about it?

As far as the NSL AU's, I find most of them cringey. Only a few I've read have executed that concept well without demonizing Lincoln's family, making Lincoln an angel, adding angsty CW melodrama tropes for the sake of angst, and making the characters unrecognizable due to sloppy writing.