I generally don't take our work all that seriously - I do it because it *isn't* serious. It's fun, and silly, and there have been many times when we're put something in specifically because we think it will really get hardcore otaku's noses out of joint. "WAUGH! They've messed with the character I have an unhealthy obsession with! My world is over!"
It doesn't mean I don't try to do a good job of writing, but I also don't consider myself the definitive author or anything. My degree is in Technical Writing, not literature, and I know that I'd be hardpressed to make a living at fiction. (Gryph I think could do it, he's better than a lot of published authors I've read.) I've said many times over the years that a lot of the Eyrie stuff is pretty much straight-up male power fantasy - *especially* the early stuff when we were still in college. Although I suppose that isn't totally accurate now - since we have women writing as part of the group I suppose we have some female power fantasy in there too. :-)
I kind of wish the early UF stories would go away, especially UF1. UF1 was written as a lark to entertain ourselves and our friends. We never intended to write more UF at the time. So characterization is weak and/or off, the 'plot' is contrived and completely silly, etc. We've talked, semi-seriously, about doing what comic companies do and writing a new 'origin' story for the UF universe, ret-conning things. Or doign a Lucas/Speilberg and doing a 'directors cut'. Greedo shot first! They were always handy-talkies!
Warrior's Legacy is meant to be over-the-top all the way - kind of Indiana Jones meets If Looks Could Kill (a Richard Greco spy spoof movie). Most of the SF stuff is actually based on the White Wolf SF RPG which Gryph had. The decision was made early on that anyone who appeared in any CapCom SF game was in the universe, which covered X-Men vs SF. ;-) Personally I was never a SF fan, I played it now and then is all. The characters are SF RPG style characters - it was very exaggerated. If you were really good at something, you were inhumanly good at it. My 'character' could probably land a C-130 on the deck of a surfaced submarine. :-) The exposition level might be from reading too much Tom Clancy. ;-) I think the Bionic 6 stuff was my fault, I used to watch it constantly as a kid and then some channel (CN maybe) was rerunning it in the early morning when we both lived in Cali and we were working on that edition of WL. Like most things I think it started out with "Heh, we could have the Bionic 6 show up", said at 'way to late/early one morning'.
Though reading the MiSTs might be enough to get me to finally finish WL6. ;-)
I think Otaku Rising could lend itself to a MiST because the UF comparison riffs are handed to you. ;-)