thought of an interesting crossover......

POSTED BY: optimus1998
UPDATED: Friday, May 21, 2004 15:07
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OPTIMUS1998

Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:23 AM

keep in mind this is pure fantasy, conceived by a mind with WAY too much free time, but what if...

turns out the reavers are really vampires.
eatrh having been used up/destroyed, what have you, they gotta go some where...

also , wouldn't it be cool if our beloved crew picked up an new passenger, Spike (that is if he survives the finale)

it would be kinda good to see what 500 odd years would do to the character.(Remember, pure fantsy, too much time on my hands)

i think this type of thing would be very cool, and would also tie the whole Jossverse together, but it would also, at the same time, cheapen the ENTIRE joss verse. which is why as cool as it would be, i hope that it wouldnever come to be.

if anyone feels the above is thew dumbest idea you've ever heard, i apologise for wasting your time, i just needed to get this out of my head.
--Optimus1998

RIV

Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:45 AM

It's actually not a BAD idea. I once read a fic where Spike was on the ship and River gave him a new name. I always wanted the author to go on with it, but that never happened.

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BIKISDAD

Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:56 AM

Yeah, actually, that would make a perfectly plausible explanation for Reavers. Also, Spike with our crew; That'd be so cool. And it could turn out that Shephard Book is a member of the Watcher's Council, or whatever they are called 500 years after Giles reforms them.... That would explain his mysterious past. I like it!

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CAGEYBEE

Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:15 AM

in my far too much leisure time, i got the notion...what if spike's hair is blue, instead of platinum, when they find him? is his brain contaminated? can he bleed from his eyes if his heart doesn't beat? plus, i just want to see one character from the jossverse with blue hair, just once.....it was this phase i had when i was younger, ok? my mom was so pissed that i wasted sooooo much blue kool-aid.

me

~Mal- "how drunk was i last night?"
~Jayne- "i don't know. i passed out."

gunhand is, in fact, not a mean old man, just slightly past his prime and slightly morally ambiguous.

GUNHAND

Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:55 AM

Interesting theory but...

...if it's true I will cover myself in gasoline and pretend I'm a Budhist monk crica '65 right in front of the Chinese theatre in LA. I have a bunch of Zippos too, don't make me use 'em.

That would seriously muck up a good thing in my opinion.

I never had blue hair. Just purple. I'm a traditionalist.

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CYBERSNARK

Sunday, May 16, 2004 3:05 PM

Actually, I would've liked to see a Buffy or Angel episode in a space-opera environment, if only for speculation on vampire physics.

Vamps don't burst into flame under starlight, so apparently it's only the light of their home star that's fatal. So, how far away does a vampire have to get from Earth before Sol is just another spec of light?

If they don't have to breath, can vampires also survive the freezing temperatures and depressurization of hard vacuum?

The no entry unless invited; does that apply to ships or just personal quarters (shades of Early's musing on "River's room" in OiS)?

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Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:35 PM

I think crossovers between the two 'verses would be a basic mistake; the two are founded on basically different paradigms. Mingling the two would only create confusion and drag both sotrylines down, imo.

I do generally enjoy it when authors interconnect their imaginative universes, if the fundamental workings of each world can be meshed into a comprehensible whole. This is where I think (and hope) S.M. Stirling is going with his various alternative history stories. But we have seen no hint of anything of the supernatural in FF; it appears to be a straight-up, material-world sci-fi tale. To introduce a supernatural element after setting up the fundamental premises of its reality would be a jarring mistake.

I would, however, watch a Spike spin-off, or the further tales of the Slayer Army, but successfully crossing these two 'verses is probably not in the cards.

Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Monday, May 17, 2004 4:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by cageybee:
in my far too much leisure time, i got the notion...what if spike's hair is blue, instead of platinum, when they find him? is his brain contaminated? can he bleed from his eyes if his heart doesn't beat? plus, i just want to see one character from the jossverse with blue hair, just once.....it was this phase i had when i was younger, ok? my mom was so pissed that i wasted sooooo much blue kool-aid.

me

~Mal- "how drunk was i last night?"
~Jayne- "i don't know. i passed out."

gunhand is, in fact, not a mean old man, just slightly past his prime and slightly morally ambiguous.

What, Illyria's hair isn't blue enough for you?

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SAFFRON: You can't just leave me here, on this
lifeless piece of crap moon...
MAL: Sure I can.
SAFFRON: I'll die.
MAL: Well, as a courtesy, you might start
getting busy on that, cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.

CAGEYBEE

Monday, May 17, 2004 4:30 AM

illyria's hair is not blue enough for me, no. its black too, or some similarly lack-of-color color. i want sky blue, like the gloves...which may not be sky blue.

me

~Mal- "how drunk was i last night?"
~Jayne- "i don't know. i passed out."

DELIA

Monday, May 17, 2004 8:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by optimus1998:
Wouldn't it be cool if our beloved crew picked up an new passenger, Spike (that is if he survives the finale)

it would be kinda good to see what 500 odd years would do to the character.

Well, if we follow the premise, he'll probably have uglied up a bit. He'd be somewhere between 600-700 years old, which was long enough to give The Master cloven feet and not-so-human looks.

But a neat idea.

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