xover bunnies: stealing plots
Apr. 3rd, 2006 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo I was thinking about Stargate.
And how I've said previously that it has all the breadth of Doctor Who - the effective time travel to any Earth civilization, the potential for futuristic civilizations, the random aliens and artificial life forms, the lack of need for a ship - without (usually) the brain breaking continuity loopiness. Plus, with the team being adjustable, the actors wanting out doesn't break the premis.
So today I start thinking, drop SG1 into a Doctor Who plot... and we're back to brain breaking. Since there's a teensy mismatch in tone.
First one I thought of: Happiness Patrol.
:-)
Only now I'm trying to think of ones that would work well, and differently, if you swapped the characters.
Is a whole cheap way of generating plots, and making odd xovers.
I think it was this morning that I dreamed that it was canon that Doctor Who, Blakes 7 and Babylon 5 were all in the same 'verse. That was *strange*. Really doesn't work.
... except my brain keeps trying to bend it so it does...
And how I've said previously that it has all the breadth of Doctor Who - the effective time travel to any Earth civilization, the potential for futuristic civilizations, the random aliens and artificial life forms, the lack of need for a ship - without (usually) the brain breaking continuity loopiness. Plus, with the team being adjustable, the actors wanting out doesn't break the premis.
So today I start thinking, drop SG1 into a Doctor Who plot... and we're back to brain breaking. Since there's a teensy mismatch in tone.
First one I thought of: Happiness Patrol.
:-)
Only now I'm trying to think of ones that would work well, and differently, if you swapped the characters.
Is a whole cheap way of generating plots, and making odd xovers.
I think it was this morning that I dreamed that it was canon that Doctor Who, Blakes 7 and Babylon 5 were all in the same 'verse. That was *strange*. Really doesn't work.
... except my brain keeps trying to bend it so it does...