Love crossovers myself. Found myself nodding along to everything you said!
I think Highlander is pretty much the Little Black Dress of crossover fandoms--for the reasons uou mentioned, plus a large cast of characters, plus you could plausibly find these folks anyplace and in damn near any time in history or the future! The only possible rival to Highlander's ubiquity would be The Doctor, don't you think?
Oddly, I think Doctor Who may be *slightly* less flexible -- solely because I have trouble imagining a strictly procedural/crime fic for it. There always seems to be aliens, or space time rifts, or just Companions out of time. However, I haven't seen it enough to be sure.
Yeah, I think that's why Highlander has so many crossovers, honestly: the range of tone/reality, and the range of characters, and the time/place range. Loved that show.
There always seems to be aliens, or space time rifts, or just Companions out of time. However, I haven't seen it enough to be sure.
Speaking as a looong time fan of Doctor Who, that is more of New Who problem than a Classic one. New Who is still a family show, but it's more consistently a science fiction show than Classic Who was. In Classic Who there were adventures that were just historical, not history and aliens. For me, the problem with Doctor Who is one that the Highlander franchise itself has had at times, do to TPTB waffling over the line between magic and science fiction in it. Both series at times like to be dismissive of magic, and insist on having their feet firmly in science, even if it's science fiction. Both series are at their most flexible when they allow for some magic in them.
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Love crossovers myself. Found myself nodding along to everything you said!
I think Highlander is pretty much the Little Black Dress of crossover fandoms--for the reasons uou mentioned, plus a large cast of characters, plus you could plausibly find these folks anyplace and in damn near any time in history or the future! The only possible rival to Highlander's ubiquity would be The Doctor, don't you think?
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Yeah, I think that's why Highlander has so many crossovers, honestly: the range of tone/reality, and the range of characters, and the time/place range. Loved that show.
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Speaking as a looong time fan of Doctor Who, that is more of New Who problem than a Classic one. New Who is still a family show, but it's more consistently a science fiction show than Classic Who was. In Classic Who there were adventures that were just historical, not history and aliens. For me, the problem with Doctor Who is one that the Highlander franchise itself has had at times, do to TPTB waffling over the line between magic and science fiction in it. Both series at times like to be dismissive of magic, and insist on having their feet firmly in science, even if it's science fiction. Both series are at their most flexible when they allow for some magic in them.
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