Comments | roseveare: Jake 2.0 crossover fic: Intersections

roseveare

Jake 2.0 crossover fic: Intersections - PG, 3,400 words

Mar 22, 2006 19:57

I don't know if this is actually the weirdest thing I've written when there's Theatre of the Absurd still out there. But it might be a contender. It may also be the most self indulgent crossover ever.

( Five intersections into the life of Jake Foley. Jake 2.0 & Miracles/BtVS/I-Man/Dark Angel/Firefly crossover. )

dark angel, jake 2.0, i-man, jake 2.0 fic, fanfic, btvs, crossovers, miracles, firefly, crackover

Comments 9

kattahj March 22 2006, 21:53:10 UTC

I didn't understand all of these (obviously) but enjoyed even the ones I didn't get - and the ones I did get I enjoyed a lot. My favourite was the DA one: comparing Diane to Mrs Robinson was too funny. Greatest line of the story was "Nothing about this guy had been grown in a lab, that was for sure" from the Miracles part. I love people being so blatantly wrong yet right at the same time.

roseveare March 22 2006, 22:47:49 UTC

I was really pleased with the DA one in the end, because it took so many attempts and kept ending up all exposition in the early drafts. So I'm glad that one makes sense - I pared down the explanation pretty aggressively in the final draft. :)

Which ones didn't you understand? I'm guessing I-man because I don't recall ever hearing you say you've seen the show. Have you seen Miracles? Did the BtVS one make sense, because I haven't rewatched the show in forever, I just remember the bits with Andrew & the slayers in Ats season 5.

kattahj March 23 2006, 08:06:16 UTC

I was really pleased with the DA one in the end, because it took so many attempts and kept ending up all exposition in the early drafts. So I'm glad that one makes sense - I pared down the explanation pretty aggressively in the final draft. :)

It's awesome. If you ever want to continue it, I'll be reading eagerly. :-)

Which ones didn't you understand? I'm guessing I-man because I don't recall ever hearing you say you've seen the show. Have you seen Miracles?

Those are the ones. Miracles was exposition-heavy enough for me to understand at least most of it, but I-man became rather confusing, though I still enjoyed the scene as such.

Did the BtVS one make sense, because I haven't rewatched the show in forever, I just remember the bits with Andrew & the slayers in Ats season 5.

Yeah, it worked out fine, very in character. I can't help but wonder if Buffy's really choosing the right path there, but then I've been wondering that ever since Chosen.

roseveare March 23 2006, 21:28:42 UTC

It's awesome. If you ever want to continue it, I'll be reading eagerly. :-)Wow, thanks. What's weird is that I've been asked to continue the Firefly one, too. And the whole idea of writing these was to exorcise the Jake crossovers from my brain ( ... )

espresso_addict March 23 2006, 01:24:00 UTC

I've only watched one episode of Jake 2.0, and not the one that explained the set-up, but I'm all for self-indulgent crossing-overs. I love it that Buffy remembers Riley.

roseveare March 23 2006, 21:18:20 UTC

Hee, Riley struck me as a nifty linking point. :)

But is it more, or less, indulgent than xovering Chrestomanci with the FF? *evil grin*

espresso_addict March 24 2006, 00:51:46 UTC

Now what the world really needs is a Jake 2.0/Earthsea x-over... *v evil grin*

roseveare March 24 2006, 20:57:38 UTC

*mind boggles for a while*

To be honest, I have just one Earthsea book, and that's Tombs of Atuin. The others I last read when I was about 14 because they didn't make the impression Tombs did. So I don't think I'm qualified to write a crossover...

topazera April 18 2007, 04:49:19 UTC

Alright, I've only been watching Jake 2.0 for the last two weeks in TV reruns but I'm a bit in love with it. So, imagine how pleasantly surprised I was to happen upon a crossover between Firefly and ...Jake 2.0!

I really enjoyed this fic, though I haven't seen Miracles or I-Man. But Jake having problems with metal detectors was a masterful idea.

The Buffy crossover had a really great in-character voice to it. I loved the description of Jake as "someone's loser college boyfriend" and of the Slayers as a "wacky Amazonian Kung-Fu sisterhood". As well as Buffy's easy dismissal of "Government experiments...".

The DA crossover was just a pitch-perfect idea of how these worlds intersect. So in-character, I loved "Max kinda wanted to take the opportunity to point out that a) they were still in the middle of the street, b) the guy was still naked and, like, c) totally too young for her, not forgetting d) there were assholes with guns not twenty feet away." It also seemed nicely reminiscent of Firefly ( ... )