My relationship with FAS is actually interesting.
I first heard it when I bought the CD. And I was unaware of how long it was since I decided not to check.
I just knew the title "False Awakening Suite". And I thought, man, this has to be a long song or whathever in the likes of The Glass Prison. I actually recall saying "Maybe this is something like 6DOIT, a split song at the beginning and an epic at the end".
When it began I thought... "Man, this is a really really nice change to DT!" it quite reminded me of Rhapsody of Fire, y'know, this heavy guitarr riffing with strings and choruses and that thing, it's pretty pretty cool.
A minute in I was thinking "This is the coolest song intro I've ever heard for DT", I was expecting the voice to come in at any time, I was very excited and decided to check the timing. Then I read, in horror, that it was a short instrumental, which I already heard half of it.
Then all of sudden, it's over. It really pissed me off.
As a last hope and resort I said "Well it was cool! Maybe it's like a modern Overture 1928?". Then became even more disappointed when I realized the next songs were not this epic thing I thought they would.
It's been a while since then, and now I appreciate DT12 more than I&W itself, but that wound remains.
It would be cool if they did this again for the next album, BUT PLEASE! Don't name it Suite or split it in parts!