When I first read the description I had hoped the author had the content to back up their bold claims, or at the very least a story that didn't employ some any cliches.

The author failed on both ends, there was no story to start with. Secondly, everywhere I looked there seems to be a cliche.

1/5; b/c the author showed enough intelligence to write with correct grammar, even if the characters come off as being static.

 

It's ok for a first attempt I've seen for this crossover. I does leave quite a few holes in the backstory, hell the story in general. I really don't get the whole 'Harry is responcible for the end of the world because Voldemort was actually it's savior' thing tho.

3/5

 

Personally, I dislike this fic. Harry has no reasoning behind his actions other than that he "has to" do it. He suddenly realizes his purpose 12 hours after arriving, he manages to lie convincingly to scientists about technology employed when he barely has more than an elementry school education.


2/5 because at least the grammar and spelling are somewhat decent.

 

Yeah, this. I read this story a while ago while still riding on the afterglow of having seen the film. It's definitely the best crossover between the two I've read so far, but only because of the scarcity of the crossovers.

This story's good points lie in the sheer novelty value of it. Some ideas the writer has had seem inventive - such as the animagus form - aren't really all that new or require much of a stretch of imagination to come up with. All the other stories so far seem to use the exact same concepts, and they came earlier.

I'd give it a 2/5 for decent writing and being the first decent crossover, but it lacks interesting characterisation and isn't really all that of a creative story.

 

The one thing that really got me about this fic is how far the author took the "humans are evil and Na'vi are good" concept - much, much further than Cameron did in his movie, I think.

Coming out of the movie I don't think that I can point a finger at the true villain. The conflict in the movie came from the inherent and irreconcilable differences between the two sides and the escalation of the conflict from both sides. The humans were greedy and stubborn, but the Na'vi were spoiled and stubborn. For humans it was a struggle against nature to survive - hence their greed, while for the Na'vi it was the preservation of nature that provided everything for them that made them spoiled and in many ways complacent.

The author seems to ignore this in favor of vilifying the humans. One thing that the author did get right though is having a wizard - who is "spoiled" by his natural gifts - side with the Na'vi. It's probably the only thing that makes sense in this fic.

Also, the single author's note in the middle of one of the later chapters - "science can't explain everything and this is important to remember in real life too, lol" - made me want to headbutt my monitor.

2/5 for... something.