One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

[osprey_archer]

Criminal Minds and Veronica Mars are both excellent shows about crime-fighting, which have otherwise little in common. Criminal Minds is a naturalistic show, and its heroes are the BAU, an elite FBI unit. Veronica Mars is a operatic show, and its heroine is Veronica Mars, vigilante.

In Criminal Minds, the police, the law, and the FBI are almost

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[team_fen]

You really should watch Supernatural, and not just because it's the little black dress of fandoms when it comes to crossovers. It's not perfect tv, but it's tv that's really, really satisfying on a number of different levels. My favourite episodes are mostly from 1.09 to 2.12. I think the show needed the first few episodes in season 1 to settle into what worked, and the quality falls off a bit at the end of season 2. Season 3 is terrible. SPN fandom is volatile at the best of times, and right now half the fandom is loudly pointing out why S3 is really bad, and the other half is in complete denial.

A couple more to draw you in!

Redemption is a Four Letter Word by ethrosdemon. SPN/Angel crossover. There's a bitingly funny Lindsey McDonald POV (my favourite morally ambiguous, guitar-playing evil lawyer) and great meta about purgatory. It's Dean/Lindsey.

Weight and Motion and Line and Wire by sevenfists. SPN/Firefly crossover. At first I wished she'd just left it as straight Firefly!fic (and pretty much the best Firefly!fic I've read), but she justified the use of Dean in the second part for me times a thousand. It's Dean/Mal.

Yeah, good crossovers can really take over your brain and refuse to give it back. They're a bit of a juggling act, and I think SPN crossovers are so successful because there's really only two main characters, and the show's premise seems to mesh with pretty much any universe-- supernatural or rational.

[osprey_archer]

Poor Dean! Never going home! He does get Mal. But still!

I feel for him, because my college doesn't end for two weeks and everyone else is home already and I'm trapped her FOREVER.

But it is a very good fic--it had me with the pears.

I've never seen Angel, so I can't comment on that one.

Bad quality is not necessarily a problem. I watch Torchwood, which is quite possibly the worst show ever filmed.

[anait]

Poor Dean!
I know! He loses Sam forever! It's tragic! But he gets a big family, which is something he's always wanted, and Mal... so it's okay, more or less.

Yeah, I never took to Torchwood. I tried the first three or four on ochre54's advice, but it was waaaay too angsty for me. Or something. It's not the badness, because I've watched some pretty bad tv and still enjoyed it. The problem with SPN is that the first two season are really quite good, so I had standards. The third season is just depressing in how low the show fell. It's not entirely clear why-- it's barely even the same show. It's hard to see something you love become that awful.

Poor you, stuck in college. :( Such a long time! Most people are out. --Imo

[osprey_archer]

Oh yes, Torchwood = angstfest.

Why do you have two LJ names?

[team_fen]

I was literally given imelford by ochre54 and lyredenfers a few years ago when I was resisting the move to LJ-- because I don't have any interest in writing journal entries; never have. But it was so pretty I kept it. And last year ochre54 and I started team-fen as a prank on lyredenfers, but it turned into a fun, shared, fannish journal that's more active than our personal journals. So I mostly use team-fen, and keep imelford for tracking icons and recipies and things like that.

Two's not too confusing. Did you hear in the LJ elections how role-players with 200 journals each sent around an email planning how they were going to block vote? --Imo