Crossovers: They Need To Make Sense (Especially in Fanfics)

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By contrast, I consider [[Undocumented Features]] a bad crossover.
By contrast, I consider [[Undocumented Features]] a bad crossover.


On the first point, it fails quite badly. Some series are meshed very, very poorly, especially ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Babylon 5]]'', which, due to a lot of conflicts regarding the internal politics and alignments of faction in both shows, not to mention how the Trek Federation and B5's version of Earth and it's relation to interstellar politics simply do not match up, and what you get is series that tries to pick and choose elements from both shows while trying to ignore what doesn't work, often leading to story holes where Earth is in an antagonist role like it was at one point in B5 while still trying to reconcile the "good guy"
On the first point, it fails quite badly. Some series are meshed very, very poorly, especially ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Babylon 5]]'', which, due to a lot of conflicts regarding the internal politics and alignments of factions in both shows, not to mention how the Trek Federation and B5's version of Earth and it's relation to interstellar politics simply do not match up, and what you get is series that tries to pick and choose elements from both shows while trying to ignore what doesn't work, often leading to story holes where Earth is in an antagonist role like it was at one point in B5 while still trying to reconcile the "good guy"
status of the Federation and its character, as Earth is founding member of the Federation, and hence the two series already have a glaring incompatibility.
status of the Federation and its characters, as Earth is founding member of the Federation, and hence the two series already have a glaring incompatibility.


Second, character interactions verge between logical at times, and other times nonsensical. In the Utena arc, while great pains were taken to have the characters from that series interact with the other characters (both crossover and original) in a mostly plausible manner, it became obvious the writer was forcing his love of music on characters from other canons simply because he wanted to stop and do a musical number every so often.
Second, character interactions verge between logical at times, and other times nonsensical. In the Utena arc, while great pains were taken to have the characters from that series interact with the other characters (both crossover and original) in a mostly plausible manner, it became obvious the writer was forcing his love of music on characters from other canons simply because he wanted to stop and do a musical number every so often.

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