Novelty

[ithildin]

How weird is it to see a story by me of all people listed as the only non xover fic on the hl_flash newsletter? It's one of those rare cosmic events [snicker]

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[unovis-lj.livejournal.com]

We'll have to see if the vampires from Buffy and Angel are abstracted in a few years. I don't think one particular vampire was taken from Forever Knight to appear in other fandoms' settings to the extent that Methos has traveled, but I'm not as familiar with that fandom. I don't think, however, that Methos is borrowed for historicals very much. He and Richie appear in sf universes set in the future, though.

Did earlier incarnations of Dr Who appear in a lot of crossovers? If ever there was a flexible character, and a fandom of one, it's he/they.

I think that Highlander has had some very talented writers, though maybe not as experimental as in other fandoms -- or former writers from HL have gone on to experiment in other fandoms with larger and more active groups.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

FK is virtually dead in terms of any kind of fic these days. Back in the day though, FK characters would appear in a fair share of crossovers. Actually, the first fic I ever posted 12 years ago was a Highlander/Forever Knight crossover. The universes work well together for me. And I know it was a popular xover pairing for a lot of FK fans.

As for Doctor Who, one of the very first zines I ever bought was an amateur press type book that was called "The Doctor Meets the Hobbits" or something along those lines. I remember he used the sonic screwdriver to free them from Old Man Willow. I still have it packed in a box somewhere. I remember a fair amount of B7 crossovers to, back pre-internet.

[elistaire.livejournal.com]

Forever Knight wasn't ever that big a fandom, is my understanding. And the characters worked more when together, cutting one free of the others is a bit more difficult -- even their flashbacks have the other vampires in them constantly!

We will have to keep and eye on Buffy and Angel; but they have more source material than HL, so that might be a factor too.

I don't follow Dr Who that's older than Nine, Ten, so I don't know about the propensity for crossovers there.

And we have lost a lot of our writers to other fandoms. Which makes me sad. :(

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

At the time FK was on the air, its fandom was comparable to Highlanders. I was in both fandoms at the time. But HL got three more seasons than FK did, and there was a lot of bitterness about how the PTBs screwed over the show, which didn't help once the show ended.

[elistaire.livejournal.com]

At the time FK was on the air, its fandom was comparable to Highlanders.

Well, crap, that doesn't bode well for HL, does it? *sigh* I came along much later, when it wasn't being aired, so I'd always had a different impression of it in fandom.

Plus, there's always season 3, which is almost like a totally new show given that the entire focus of the show *changed*, and then they ended it the way they did. No wonder all the fans were upset. At least with some more open ended finales, one can write more fanfic. *is also bitter about season 3*