I took this recommendation, and hated it. Got as far as the thing with Jayne’s mother before I accepted that it wasn’t going to get any better.
If you’re some random person, wondering whether you should listen to me or Alsadius, I recommend the following test: read the first chapter. If you like chapter one you’ll probably like the rest of it, and if you don’t, you won’t.
I agree with this test. True of many stories, really. I’m a fan of the plot, which only really comes together 2⁄3 of the way through, but if you’re not a fan of the banter, it’s not worth it.
I started reading it. Harry isn’t Harry. He’s constantly spouting “Charming” and “Snarky” lines at every character, and is inexplicably expert at piloting and knows everything about the firefly-verse after a time-skip of 2 years. If you hadn’t told me he was Harry Potter I would’ve guessed he was Pham Nuwen. There’s also tons of call-backs to past firefly events and lines of dialogue, which shows pretty weak imagination on the part of the author. A reference is one thing but you don’t make it by characters constantly going “Hey remember that one time when we did X?” “Hey remember your wife?”.
The request was for a HPMOR substitute. I figured that a Harry-like Harry wasn’t exactly a necessity. As I said in an above comment, this author uses canon as a loose suggestion.
Not really. You can get by without Potter knowledge(as usual, this author mangles it a fair bit anyways), but the plot is heavily tied into that of Firefly/Serenity, and the Firefly characters are more prominent. That said, feel free to read his Potter-only stuff instead—I haven’t gone through his whole oeuvre, but everything I’ve read has been hilarious and well-written.
I quite enjoyed https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2857962/1/Browncoat-Green-Eyes
(Yes, it’s a Harry Potter/Firefly crossover. It’s much, much better than the premise makes it sound)
I took this recommendation, and hated it. Got as far as the thing with Jayne’s mother before I accepted that it wasn’t going to get any better.
If you’re some random person, wondering whether you should listen to me or Alsadius, I recommend the following test: read the first chapter. If you like chapter one you’ll probably like the rest of it, and if you don’t, you won’t.
I agree with this test. True of many stories, really. I’m a fan of the plot, which only really comes together 2⁄3 of the way through, but if you’re not a fan of the banter, it’s not worth it.
I started reading it. Harry isn’t Harry. He’s constantly spouting “Charming” and “Snarky” lines at every character, and is inexplicably expert at piloting and knows everything about the firefly-verse after a time-skip of 2 years. If you hadn’t told me he was Harry Potter I would’ve guessed he was Pham Nuwen. There’s also tons of call-backs to past firefly events and lines of dialogue, which shows pretty weak imagination on the part of the author. A reference is one thing but you don’t make it by characters constantly going “Hey remember that one time when we did X?” “Hey remember your wife?”.
The request was for a HPMOR substitute. I figured that a Harry-like Harry wasn’t exactly a necessity. As I said in an above comment, this author uses canon as a loose suggestion.
I keep running into that. Does it make sense to read if you haven’t watched Firefly?
(I have watched Firefly—an episode or two. Didn’t like it.)
Not really. You can get by without Potter knowledge(as usual, this author mangles it a fair bit anyways), but the plot is heavily tied into that of Firefly/Serenity, and the Firefly characters are more prominent. That said, feel free to read his Potter-only stuff instead—I haven’t gone through his whole oeuvre, but everything I’ve read has been hilarious and well-written.