The Inspiration of Rassilon

One thing I'm always fond of given how often I ferment Fanfiction.net and its lovely Crossover searching system is seeing more Crossovers with the Classic Series - it makes sense of course that the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors (and to a lesser extent Nine) dominate since naturally many writers will be people who came in from the New Series (and long may you write, my fine fellows!) but it's always a rare joy to find a well written Classic Who crossover, much less with a show I recognise of course. But anyway, it's only a slight pet peeve.

I have a few DW crossovers I've started to write over the years but theres a great amount of difficulty into getting them realised, far more than regular Who fiction (or indeed any other non-crossover fic) because you have to sinch up those two universes in some way (has there been some Void crossing, is it a shared universe and if so how much?) together with the characters. Worse is that I then come up with another dozen ideas in the midst of that planning and I get that terrible fiction split-personality thing where one half wants to carry on and the other wants to try something new. And whilst the latter is tempting I feel uncomfortable with umpteen unfinished crossovers on my plate.

Thank the lord for dwstraybunnies then, gives me the chance to share some of the more feasible ideas and see if a more focused writer can make better sense of them.

For example I have this very complex Alien vs Predator crossover with DW which has been in my thoughts for at least two years. When I came up with it orginally it was just the Aliens and the Daleks, the latter attempting to exploit the Xenomorphs on an infested world and the Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones and Jack Harkness (I think the idea was this was going to be an untold adventure sometime after they beat the Master but before Martha finally decides to leave the TARDIS in Series 3 - I wanted a medical person basically) togther with a bunch of Marines trying to stop them. Then last year it became the 11th Doctor with Rory and Amy, first between 'Amy's Choice' and 'Hungry Earth', then after the Series 5 Finale in their honeymoon period. And then the new AVP Sega Game came out and I realised the story would make a perfect foil as a sort of sequel.

The Daleks kept switching from Classic to RTD to Paradign versions (the former because I realised that the AVP universe is sometime after the 2167 Dalek Invasion of Earth, so the Marines would be aware of Daleks) and I had Bishop and the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in as an 'evil human' group, just as keen to exploit the Daleks as they are the Xenomorphs and the Hunters who try to stop them. I actually started writing a timeline, suggesting that Weyland-Yutani had pieced together Dalek tech from incidents in 1963 and 1984 and the 'Vulcan Colony disaster'. And I was even intending to have (as per the game with its set of storylines) perspectives from multiple sides - the Doctor and the Marines, Weyland's crew, the Daleks, the Xenomorphs and the Hunters. As you can tell, it was very ambitious and is still on the cards in theory, but... it might be rather too ambitious really, I'd have to see. Besides, I have to really finish other stuff including a SW crossover with Who, so I'll have to think about it.

Hope that wasn't too long but I figured I'd have my say about Who and crossovers in general.