The first fic is awesome. The second one is "awesome," and those airquotes are massive. Why? The villain. More specifically, the Villain Sue, who mixes in traits of Sympathetic Sue and Einstein Sue. And here's a sampling of her sueishness: badass enough to kick voldemort's ass, a scientific genius (enough to give Petunia Dursley magic, Moaning Myrtle a living body, build an underwater base, a high-tech prosthetic arm for herself, and even have an Archaeopteryx as a familiar), went through a bad childhood (she got beaten because she talked about science in a religious school). has phazon superpowers. is connected with major canon characters (friends with Lily Potter. loving snape (who marries her later on!). has a vampire friend who was madam olympe's guardian. and close enough to dumbledore for him to confide to her that he's gay). there's more of course, but the word count keeps me from detailing it all. The fic does have its share of genuinely awesome moments, but she's too big a part of the story to ignore/forgive.
A case of sequelitis
The first fic is awesome. The second one is "awesome," and those airquotes are massive. Why? The villain. More specifically, the Villain Sue, who mixes in traits of Sympathetic Sue and Einstein Sue. And here's a sampling of her sueishness: badass enough to kick voldemort's ass, a scientific genius (enough to give Petunia Dursley magic, Moaning Myrtle a living body, build an underwater base, a high-tech prosthetic arm for herself, and even have an Archaeopteryx as a familiar), went through a bad childhood (she got beaten because she talked about science in a religious school). has phazon superpowers. is connected with major canon characters (friends with Lily Potter. loving snape (who marries her later on!). has a vampire friend who was madam olympe's guardian. and close enough to dumbledore for him to confide to her that he's gay). there's more of course, but the word count keeps me from detailing it all. The fic does have its share of genuinely awesome moments, but she's too big a part of the story to ignore/forgive.