LOL, I go into a debate with a chick who had never had sex on how to write sex scenes and she insisted that you didn't need to have done it to know. And I'm like, "Well, it kinda helps!"
About crossovers, the most successful ones are in worlds that are really alike, like "How I Met Your Mother" and "Big Bang Theory". Or "Sherlock Holmes" and "Phantom of the Opera"...they occur in the same timeline, their stories don't actually intersect and there is nothing prohibiting them from being crossed. But in fics like Star Wars/Star Trek, you have to explain why the tech is so different, why there is the Force in one but not the other, etc. Its just a really big stretch. What was the one you read?
About OOC, don't get me wrong, I LOVE it when a character grows into something totally different and then the author goes about explaining how the change occurred in a believable way. One of my favorite fan fics takes the misanthropic Severus Snape and slowly changes and explicates his character through a series of letters. It's brilliant because you find out that some of the things you thought about him weren't true (can be done because HP is not from his POV) and the very act of forming the friendship with the person he's writing to challenges him to change himself. That's great. What I can't stand is things like suitless Darth Vader--just changing canon so that some romance or something can take place. It's infuriating! (Plus, there's a lot of good reasons that Vader can't be Vader without the suit. I mean, it keeps him isolated and being in constant pain serves to keep him angry. I have this whole theory that the Emperor actually crippled him on purpose by putting him in the suit rather than healing him in any real way, in order to keep him on the Dark Side...).
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About crossovers, the most successful ones are in worlds that are really alike, like "How I Met Your Mother" and "Big Bang Theory". Or "Sherlock Holmes" and "Phantom of the Opera"...they occur in the same timeline, their stories don't actually intersect and there is nothing prohibiting them from being crossed. But in fics like Star Wars/Star Trek, you have to explain why the tech is so different, why there is the Force in one but not the other, etc. Its just a really big stretch.
What was the one you read?
About OOC, don't get me wrong, I LOVE it when a character grows into something totally different and then the author goes about explaining how the change occurred in a believable way. One of my favorite fan fics takes the misanthropic Severus Snape and slowly changes and explicates his character through a series of letters. It's brilliant because you find out that some of the things you thought about him weren't true (can be done because HP is not from his POV) and the very act of forming the friendship with the person he's writing to challenges him to change himself. That's great.
What I can't stand is things like suitless Darth Vader--just changing canon so that some romance or something can take place. It's infuriating! (Plus, there's a lot of good reasons that Vader can't be Vader without the suit. I mean, it keeps him isolated and being in constant pain serves to keep him angry. I have this whole theory that the Emperor actually crippled him on purpose by putting him in the suit rather than healing him in any real way, in order to keep him on the Dark Side...).