We find chained up skeletons in basements all the time
So my sources say Josh Schwartz is gonna have the OC and Gossip Girl crossover? Well, have them exist in the same universe. He could go for his show trifecta and throw Chuck in there as well, but while I can see the OC and Gossip Girl going together, Chuck would not. But yeah, my sources tell me they're thinking of having a young Lily (apparently the pilot is already being filmed, with Brittany Snow as young Lily, and Krysten Ritter is in it as well?) interacting with a young Kirsten Cohen (well, I guess that would be Nichols) and Jimmy Cooper, and possibly young Julie Cooper as well, though I can't see how that would work. It always seemed to me that Jimmy didn't get with Julie until long after Kiki dumped him, and I thought they got married because she was knocked up with Marissa. And wasn't she 18 at the time, so unless Jimmy was a pervert, they couldn't have been going out for too long. So for Marissa and Seth to be the same age, the Coopers couldn't have been going out until Kirsten and Sandy had been together for a while.
But I digress. What if other shows made by the same creator existed in the same universe? The David E Kelley stuff, didn't Boston Public, the Practice/Boston Legal, and Ally Mcbeal all exist in the same world? Like I think Joss could make it so either Buffy/Angel or Dollhouse existed in the same universe as Firefly (though I don't think Buffy/Angel and Dollhouse being the same world would work). I'd throw Dr. Horrible in there as well, but I think they've hinted very heavily that it takes place in the same universe as The Tick. Although one could geekily argue that the Buffyverse is the same as the Firefly-verse through the Alien: Resurrection connection. (which Joss wrote). Weyland-Yutani is the corporation in the Alien series, whom Wolfram & Hart listed as a famous client in the 5th season of Angel, and more than a few of the weapons in Firefly have the Weyland-Yutani logo on it.
But heh, I don't think it would be too far fetched for Alias, Lost, Fringe, and Felicity to exist in the same universe. After all, Driveshaft does exist in the first two. And Felicity has had mystical elements (the deus ex machina spell Meghan cast first season that broke Felicity and the Gnoll up and hooked her up with Ben, and of course Felicity going back in time and reliving her senior year of college). So I don't think there's anything preventing those shows from taking place in the same universe. Like I don't think the weird stuff in Alias, Fringe, or Lost really contradicts each other. Hey, I totally think Rambaldi, the Island, and the Pattern could exist in the same world without stepping on each others toes.
TV commentary:
Smallville- I was complaining about how terrible this show was last week, but I will say I do like how they're doing the whole Doomsday storyline, making it more like an evil-Hulk kinda thing. When the show isn't about Clark moping about his secret life and how he can never tell Lana (now Lois), it isn't too bad. I like how they're making Davis struggling to keep the beast from emerging, and how his solution is to be all vigilante like and turn his rage onto criminals and people he thinks deserves to die. But heh, Jimmy catches he and Chloe sharing a moment, and boy does that set him off. He catches Davis killing a drunk driver who killed a young mother and her daughter, but he doses Jimmy to make the whole thing the rantings of a drug-addled mind. But Jimmy figures it out and chains Davis up, but then Chloe tazes him. Heh, after that, she thinks they can go back to normal. But he's all pissed about her always taking someone else's side- first Clark, now Davis. So he lambasts her in front of the hospital staff all "I don't know why I married you in the first place" and how it was the biggest mistake of his life. Heh, and how awkward was that after he storms off, leaving a weepy Chloe behind along with a bunch of shocked onlookers? so that's how they're gonna end that relationship?
And heh, they're going for Tess as Lex part 2, trying to get Clark to trust her and reveal his secret to her, even going so far to reveal her abuse at the hands of her father. But heh, since Tess got a hold of a lot of Lex's files Clark tries to get her plastered and get her to reveal what she knows at the same time she's working him. But she does end up faking a plane accident, lying that there are no parachutes on the plane. Ha, Clark was trying to get her drunk before, and then when the plane is crashing, he's all, "Here, take this oxygen mask!", and then pinches the tube so she'll pass out so he can jump out the plane and save her. What a hero! But ooh, he lies that he found a parachute, and does make a lucky guess that he found them in the cabinet that Tess had lied she didn't see any parachutes in. But he says he only saw one, when in fact Tess knows there are two. So she might know what's up. I was gonna say, Clark's being an a-hole again, driving away potential friends with his lies, but I guess he does want to tell her, and its Chloe who warns him to be cautious. Oh, what does she know, she believed an alien mass murderer over her husband!
Supernatural- Interesting ep of Supernatural last night. As I've said, I like the addition of angels to the mythology. I guess this is kinda blasphemous, but I've always found the whole angel or angels doing something bad out of jealousy of the human race, being all they're the most loyal, but humans are the big G's favored creation even though many don't even acknowledge him and do all sorts of things against his will, to be an interesting storyline. But we do get some interesting reveals. First off, when Dean tortures Alistair, the demon reveals how he tried to make the same deal to John, but the Winchester dad never broke. But Dean did, and a "righteous man spilling blood in hell" was the first seal to broken, the one that needed to be broken to start the whole seal breaking process. He is of course devastated, and wants to just crawl in a hole and die, but Cas is all, he started it, but he's also the only one who can stop it.
We also learn the dark things Sam and Ruby do isn't sex, he's been feeding on her blood. After all, its consuming some of Yellow eyes' blood when he was a baby that gave him his prophetic dream powers, I was wondering how he was getting more powerful. It couldn't have been just training. So the fact that he's been getting demon blood makes a lot of sense. Anyways, Alastair escapes the devil's trap he was contained in and proceeds to pummel Dean to within an inch of his life, and is about to reverse-exorcise Castiel when Dean uses his demon powers to save the day. So he kills Alastair, but not before getting the demon to admit that the demons aren't the ones behind the demon attacks.
Who is? Uriel, who's starting to see things Lucifer's way, and was killing those angels who refused to join his cause. He tries to get Cas to join him, and they fight and Uriel gets the upper hand, but Anna saves Cas in the end by stabbing him with that special sword Uriel was using to kill the other angels. I wonder what the significance of stabbing them in the throat was?
The Office- Wow, some crazy developments in the Office as well. Truthfully, it was amusing to see Jim get a sort of comeuppance. Yeah, Dwight's a dick, but sometimes Jim goes a little too far. So his tuxedo prank backfires, and he ends up looking like an idiot to the new boss, and he fails to convince the new boss otherwise.
But more surprising is how Michael freaks out and is a big baby. Well, that's not surprising. What is surprising is when he drives all the way to NY to talk to Wallace, and Wallace actually tries to appease him, going so far as to saying they could "shift some money around" so Michael can have his 15th anniversary party the new VP said wasn't gonna happen. And more surprising after that? Mike quits! What the?!
But I digress. What if other shows made by the same creator existed in the same universe? The David E Kelley stuff, didn't Boston Public, the Practice/Boston Legal, and Ally Mcbeal all exist in the same world? Like I think Joss could make it so either Buffy/Angel or Dollhouse existed in the same universe as Firefly (though I don't think Buffy/Angel and Dollhouse being the same world would work). I'd throw Dr. Horrible in there as well, but I think they've hinted very heavily that it takes place in the same universe as The Tick. Although one could geekily argue that the Buffyverse is the same as the Firefly-verse through the Alien: Resurrection connection. (which Joss wrote). Weyland-Yutani is the corporation in the Alien series, whom Wolfram & Hart listed as a famous client in the 5th season of Angel, and more than a few of the weapons in Firefly have the Weyland-Yutani logo on it.
But heh, I don't think it would be too far fetched for Alias, Lost, Fringe, and Felicity to exist in the same universe. After all, Driveshaft does exist in the first two. And Felicity has had mystical elements (the deus ex machina spell Meghan cast first season that broke Felicity and the Gnoll up and hooked her up with Ben, and of course Felicity going back in time and reliving her senior year of college). So I don't think there's anything preventing those shows from taking place in the same universe. Like I don't think the weird stuff in Alias, Fringe, or Lost really contradicts each other. Hey, I totally think Rambaldi, the Island, and the Pattern could exist in the same world without stepping on each others toes.
TV commentary:
Smallville- I was complaining about how terrible this show was last week, but I will say I do like how they're doing the whole Doomsday storyline, making it more like an evil-Hulk kinda thing. When the show isn't about Clark moping about his secret life and how he can never tell Lana (now Lois), it isn't too bad. I like how they're making Davis struggling to keep the beast from emerging, and how his solution is to be all vigilante like and turn his rage onto criminals and people he thinks deserves to die. But heh, Jimmy catches he and Chloe sharing a moment, and boy does that set him off. He catches Davis killing a drunk driver who killed a young mother and her daughter, but he doses Jimmy to make the whole thing the rantings of a drug-addled mind. But Jimmy figures it out and chains Davis up, but then Chloe tazes him. Heh, after that, she thinks they can go back to normal. But he's all pissed about her always taking someone else's side- first Clark, now Davis. So he lambasts her in front of the hospital staff all "I don't know why I married you in the first place" and how it was the biggest mistake of his life. Heh, and how awkward was that after he storms off, leaving a weepy Chloe behind along with a bunch of shocked onlookers? so that's how they're gonna end that relationship?
And heh, they're going for Tess as Lex part 2, trying to get Clark to trust her and reveal his secret to her, even going so far to reveal her abuse at the hands of her father. But heh, since Tess got a hold of a lot of Lex's files Clark tries to get her plastered and get her to reveal what she knows at the same time she's working him. But she does end up faking a plane accident, lying that there are no parachutes on the plane. Ha, Clark was trying to get her drunk before, and then when the plane is crashing, he's all, "Here, take this oxygen mask!", and then pinches the tube so she'll pass out so he can jump out the plane and save her. What a hero! But ooh, he lies that he found a parachute, and does make a lucky guess that he found them in the cabinet that Tess had lied she didn't see any parachutes in. But he says he only saw one, when in fact Tess knows there are two. So she might know what's up. I was gonna say, Clark's being an a-hole again, driving away potential friends with his lies, but I guess he does want to tell her, and its Chloe who warns him to be cautious. Oh, what does she know, she believed an alien mass murderer over her husband!
Supernatural- Interesting ep of Supernatural last night. As I've said, I like the addition of angels to the mythology. I guess this is kinda blasphemous, but I've always found the whole angel or angels doing something bad out of jealousy of the human race, being all they're the most loyal, but humans are the big G's favored creation even though many don't even acknowledge him and do all sorts of things against his will, to be an interesting storyline. But we do get some interesting reveals. First off, when Dean tortures Alistair, the demon reveals how he tried to make the same deal to John, but the Winchester dad never broke. But Dean did, and a "righteous man spilling blood in hell" was the first seal to broken, the one that needed to be broken to start the whole seal breaking process. He is of course devastated, and wants to just crawl in a hole and die, but Cas is all, he started it, but he's also the only one who can stop it.
We also learn the dark things Sam and Ruby do isn't sex, he's been feeding on her blood. After all, its consuming some of Yellow eyes' blood when he was a baby that gave him his prophetic dream powers, I was wondering how he was getting more powerful. It couldn't have been just training. So the fact that he's been getting demon blood makes a lot of sense. Anyways, Alastair escapes the devil's trap he was contained in and proceeds to pummel Dean to within an inch of his life, and is about to reverse-exorcise Castiel when Dean uses his demon powers to save the day. So he kills Alastair, but not before getting the demon to admit that the demons aren't the ones behind the demon attacks.
Who is? Uriel, who's starting to see things Lucifer's way, and was killing those angels who refused to join his cause. He tries to get Cas to join him, and they fight and Uriel gets the upper hand, but Anna saves Cas in the end by stabbing him with that special sword Uriel was using to kill the other angels. I wonder what the significance of stabbing them in the throat was?
The Office- Wow, some crazy developments in the Office as well. Truthfully, it was amusing to see Jim get a sort of comeuppance. Yeah, Dwight's a dick, but sometimes Jim goes a little too far. So his tuxedo prank backfires, and he ends up looking like an idiot to the new boss, and he fails to convince the new boss otherwise.
But more surprising is how Michael freaks out and is a big baby. Well, that's not surprising. What is surprising is when he drives all the way to NY to talk to Wallace, and Wallace actually tries to appease him, going so far as to saying they could "shift some money around" so Michael can have his 15th anniversary party the new VP said wasn't gonna happen. And more surprising after that? Mike quits! What the?!