Crossovers ahoy!

[thisbluespirit]

As anyone who knows me, one of my other loves in fanfic is a good crossover. It's the one thing you really can't have in the actual show (because of pesky rl considerations, like copyright, actors now being consideably older / dead etc.) and Doctor Who is built for it. Where other shows have to beat about the bush trying to explain the crossover, or just making it crack!fic to get away with it, all any DW fanficcer has to write is 'The TARDIS lands...' and we're away.

What crossovers would you like to see more of? Or those you'd just love to see? Are there any real crossover no-nos when it comes to Doctor Who? I've always been of the opinion that you can cross it with anything, but maybe there are limits.

What ideas does everyone have?

Comments

[john_amend_all]

For your Watership Down point 1 crossover: Fiver meets the Dream Lord? That might work, since he (Fiver, I mean) has talked to humans while dreaming in canon. In fact, 'crossover characters get to share a dream with the Doctor and the Dream Lord' sounds like it's got potential to be a new sub-genre all by itself. And each Doctor would have to have their own Dream Lord. Five::Ronnie Barker, Seven::John Thaw?

When it comes to Voyager, I've only watched a handful of episodes so I'll readily accept the 'fixed point' explanation. Though it might be fun to see Janeway try to hijack the TARDIS; between her crew's unfamiliarity with the systems and the TARDIS's legendary unreliability, they could end up in some amusing places.

As for crosses with things that are fictional in the Whoniverse, there's the Literary Agent Hypothesis (already invoked to explain how the Doctor has met both Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes), there's the Land of Fiction, and if all else fails there's Storytime.

In general: Trying to come up with crossovers that won't work does seem to lead to a desire to make them work, doesn't it?

[thisbluespirit]

I have to ask... why is Five's Dream Lord Ronnie Barker? :-)

:lol: That does sound like fun. Mind you, if it's post-Seven of Nine's arrival, they'd probably fly it better than he does, and they'd still have a Doctor on board. He'd be annoyed.

*nods*

[john_amend_all]

Ronnie Barker... seemed like a good idea at the time. I was trying to picture someone who'd be very physically different from Peter Davison, and up popped the mental image of Barker in one of those 'spokesman' rôles.

[thisbluespirit]

It's a nice image. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. I love the idea of him now. I'm torn as to whether I'd really pick him for Four. There seems to be some strange thing that dictates that Five's Dream lord should be played be Robert Hardy! :lol: (I think I like your idea best...)

[john_amend_all]

I wonder about Fulton McKay for Four's Dream Lord (since legend has it he was a candidate for Four proper...)

I do like the idea of Robert Hardy as a Dream Lord, though.