Ever fall asleep making weird thoughts in your head?

[conuly]

I've had the best thought-strings in the past three days, both when almost-asleep and when wide-awake, and then I can never remember the details later.

But I *do* remember this, and so I'm posting it.

I was thinking about the fact that Nat Fillion has been in three different Whedon things, somebody online mentioned that this largely cuts out the odds of a crossover between any of them except, of course, Buffy and Angel (which doesn't count). Which lead to me thinking about Alias and Heroes, and really - think about it. Wouldn't that make the best crossover? Even if the characters-played-by-Greg-Grunberg never meet, wouldn't it still be such the best?

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Comments

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

It isn't necessarily true that crossovers between the three primary Whedonverses are prohibited. Actors can play different roles in the same universe: the most egregious case is probably that of Jerry Orbach, who portrayed a defense attorney on Law & Order one season, and began his long stretch portraying Lenny Briscoe the next season.

Another example is the actor who played the assistant principal on Boston Public but who is an obnoxious judge on Boston Legal even though the actor who played his boss the principal has been the same character on both shows.

(There're two examples in the current Whoniverse, too, characters played by Eve Myles and Freema Agyeman.)

[conuly]

I think what was meant is not that they're prohibited (how could that happen, without prohibiting *thought*, anyway?) but that they're not inherently connected.

Since Joss has said they're not attached at all in any way himself, that really settles it, I guess.

[tenou-k.livejournal.com]

"Which lead to me thinking about Alias and Heroes, and really - think about it. Wouldn't that make the best crossover?"

I cannot answer this with enough yes.

[conuly]

Bet it's already been written, come to think. Let's see...

Huh. I'm finding nothing. Weird.

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

It isn't necessarily true that crossovers between the three primary Whedonverses are prohibited. Actors can play different roles in the same universe: the most egregious case is probably that of Jerry Orbach, who portrayed a defense attorney on Law & Order one season, and began his long stretch portraying Lenny Briscoe the next season.

Another example is the actor who played the assistant principal on Boston Public but who is an obnoxious judge on Boston Legal even though the actor who played his boss the principal has been the same character on both shows.

(There're two examples in the current Whoniverse, too, characters played by Eve Myles and Freema Agyeman.)

[conuly]

I think what was meant is not that they're prohibited (how could that happen, without prohibiting *thought*, anyway?) but that they're not inherently connected.

Since Joss has said they're not attached at all in any way himself, that really settles it, I guess.

[tenou-k.livejournal.com]

"Which lead to me thinking about Alias and Heroes, and really - think about it. Wouldn't that make the best crossover?"

I cannot answer this with enough yes.

[conuly]

Bet it's already been written, come to think. Let's see...

Huh. I'm finding nothing. Weird.