So this is why I don't write crossovers...

[thelibraniniquity]

They're bad news. They really are. There are two existing -- and occasionally mutually exclusive -- canons to bring together with some level of cohesion. There's balance to be maintained between the two canons. Characterisation has to be maintained; if, for example, Character A in Canon X has absolutely no reason to believe that aliens exist, let alone that a facility underneath a mountain in Colorado over in Canon Y has been sending teams to different planets for nearly ten years, and that Character A has to track down Character B who belongs in Canon Y's universe, but at some point in his life was a key part of Canon X...

It's headache inducing.

Which is my own damn fault. I start writing this crossover of DOOM last night, and now, while watching DVDs from Show/Canon X, I get to wondering... who the hell's going to beta this if/when it gets finished? Nobody I know watches X. Sure, they're all into Y, but that's not all I need, especially since the aforementioned Character A from Show X bears a... striking resemblance to Character L in Show Y, which is half the damn reason the crossover came about in the first place.

I've been looking around on sga_beta, but there's no indication anywhere that any of the listed betas even watch Show X, let alone be willing to beta a fic that straddles its canon.

Which brings me to the more fun question of this diarrhoea of the keyboard... who do I now get to watch DVD rips of Show X in order that they may beta for me...??

Cue the evil grin ;)

Comments

[teyla]

I would. I really, really would. I just can't at the moment.

But depending on when you are gonna be done with this, I might still have a change, right? ;)

[thelibraniniquity]

But depending on when you are gonna be done with this,
And that's the tricky part, isn't it? Assuming that it's going to get finished in the first place ;)

But who knows? Maybe closer to, or after Christmas, when I've started cursing whatever deity that I ever picked Africa for my dissertation, maybe I'll get this baby finished, and you'll get a soft copy in the mail, along with three seasons' worth of rips...

And I know you would if you could :). I'm just gonna hafta find some other poor sucker to pick on this time, aren't I? ;)

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

I might have missed it, but what show is Show X??

[thelibraniniquity]

'The 4400' :)

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

ah, I hear about that one. Friends of miine watched it. Sadly I didn't. Otherwise I would have offered. But I'm kinda busy with bloody exams too, so... *hates RL*

[thelibraniniquity]

Otherwise I would have offered.
:)

I'm just whining though. And it's a fair point about crossovers, though.
And of course, all of this assumes I'm ever going to finish the fic; my track record with fic completion lately has been.... well, bloody pathetic ;)

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

my track record with fic completion lately has been.... well, bloody pathetic
LOL - I know what you mean. My HD is turning into a graveyard for WIPs and Ideas...

But ONE DAY. ONE DAY I'm gonna... probably delete them all... ;-)

[thelibraniniquity]

No, you see, I don't think I could do that. Even though they were conceived at godawful hours and some most of them executed poorly, I've grown quite attached to them. I'd like to finish some of them some day, if only to say that I have done!

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

*gg* I wish I could say that about me. I delete more than I safe, because I usually think they're crap. :-)

[thelibraniniquity]

Most of my ideas don't even make it into a Word document, it's just the ones I do have that are starting to accumulate and gather dust *sigh*

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

the only good thing is, that they don't weigh much and don't take up much (physical) space. :-)