pet peeve

[deird_lj]

The number one thing that stops me reading crossover fanfics?


When Buffy isn't actually a Summers - instead she's a Grissom/Bartlett/O'Neill/Gibbs.

Or when Xander's real dad is the lead guy on the crossover show.

Or when Willow is the relative of the nearest Jewish cast member. Or the nearest redhead.


Putting Dawn in a different family works okay - because, hey, monks making different decisions or whatever. (But it would be kinda nice if Glory actually chased her into the crossover show, once in a while.)

But otherwise? There are other ways to get crossovers to occur. And I'm sick of all the new family members.

Comments

[nothorse.livejournal.com]

I can sympathiz, although there are few — very few — that actually work. It all depends how careful the weaving is done.

[deird1]

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[nothorse.livejournal.com]

You may have seen Bridges, a SG-1 crossover that works because, yeah, Jack O'Neill is Xander's Father, but that doesn't mean that they trust, know or like each other. It's a slow story and it works. For me at least.

The second one is the perfectly wonderfully brilliant April 10, 1997 by Mediancat in which Faith's family turns out to be completely different than anybody had thought. I won't mention the crossover, because it's a surprise and you might want to click the link with images disabled as one of the award banners gives it away.

Marcus Rowlands Family Issues is just demented and very nicely done.

Hope you like one of them.