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Tommy Westphall's Mind: A Multiverse Explored
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| Tommy in Melbourne... |
[Aug. 2nd, 2007|03:40 pm] |
The Green Guide in Melbourne's The Age newspaper today discusses a crossover between Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas. It discusses crossovers in general - why they happen, when they work best - and then discusses the Tommy Westphall theory and the site.
The writer's conclusion: "So [Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas] don't really exist. And thank God for that because they are awful."
Read the full article under the cut. Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) paulbot for transcribing it...
Critic's View
Lucy Beaumont
This was going to be a simple discussion about crossover appearances.
About how networks and producers stuck for ideas regularly pluck one
or two characters from one show and temporarily insert them into
another.
In other news, if The Simpsons counted, then 24 would be part of the Westphall Universe madness - with Keifer Sutherland appearing as Jack Bauer on a recent episode, "24 Minutes".
But animated series don't count. I wonder if Prime Time animated series should... |
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| More West Wing/Studio 60 |
[Feb. 20th, 2007|12:32 pm] |
I noticed, and truthbealiar did too, in tonight's episode of Studio 60 the name of a familiar legal firm.
The blonde lawyer on tonight's 60 works for Gage Whitney, the same firm Sam Seaborn worked for on The West Wing before working with the President.
This is more proof that Sorkin loves to recycle names and dialogue. Again on 60 tonight, Matt's assistant said "I go home when you go home." Which is just as lovely a sentiment now as when Margaret said it to Leo on The West Wing.
Now, it's impossible to reconcile President Bush with President Bartlett - but Munch dealing with alien conspiracies on The X Files doesn't exactly fit in neatly with Homicide either...
Still not connected to Tommy, though.
ETA: The OC/Grey's Anatomy connection in thread... (also Non-Tommy so far...) |
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| Non-Tommy Crossover: The West Wing/Studio 60 |
[Feb. 1st, 2007|12:44 pm] |
I always loved the fact that The West Wing took place in its own hermetically sealed universe - even though I would have loved the characters on ER to have left work to vote in the fictional 2006 election between Matt Santos and Arnold Vinnick.
And, so far, Studio 60 has avoided actual crossovers - though it looks like Sorkin might be pushed into marketing crossovers, with Masi Oka of Heroes appearing this week.
But now we have proof that Sorkin's two babies connect to each other.
Note the "Bartlet for America" poster on the wall in this screencap of a Studio 60 office.
Now if only we can connect to Sorkin's third series, Sports Night... then Tommy will have some new friends to play with!
ETA: Maybe it doesn't count? Discussion of Bush and 9/11 references in the comments... |
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| NON-Tommy Crossover: Buffy/Knight Rider |
[Jul. 3rd, 2005|12:30 am] |
Okay, this one is a bit circuitous and uses a *gasp* feature film, but it's too good not to at least mention it somewhere!
Firstly, the subject header is a complete lie - but how else to get you to read this :-)
They do exist in the same universe, but it's not a direct link at all.
Buffy, of course, spun off Angel.
And as we all know (all of us who are geeky crossover nerds that is),
Angel is linked to the feature film "Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th
Dimension" because the company Yoyodyne is a client of Wolfram &
Hart.
It is this company, Yoyodyne Propulsions, that makes many of the control panels in Star Trek's starships - which Wikipedia reminded me.
And as Tom Holbrook has pointed out at his crossover page, Star Trek and Team Knight Rider (yes, Team Knight Rider) have a connection.
Team Knight Rider was a spin-off from Knight Rider, because it included
talking cars, KITT's brain and the offspring of Michael Knight -
although from before he was Michael Knight.
Which makes this mini-verse: Angel, Buffy, Buckaroo Banzai, Star Trek,
Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek
Enterprise, Knight Rider and Team Knight Rider. Buckaroo Banzai can
almost be skipped over because the name Yoyodyne links Angel and Trek
anyway - but the Buckaroo Banzai thing cements it. Plus if you include
that film, you have to also include Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien
Resurrection because Weyland Yutani is a client of Wolfram & Hart
also.
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| Non-Tommy Crossover: Lost/The Office (UK) |
[Jun. 9th, 2005|11:07 pm] |
I already reported the Alias/Lost crossover
because I thought it was rather inventive of J.J. Abrahams to link his
island show with his fantasy kick-ass action-adventure series.
And now I'm reporting the Lost/The Office (UK) crossover, because Thom
Holbrook hasn't done it yet and it forms a three-series mini-verse,
which is always fun.
The Office, the original British sitcom that has now been remade in the
U.S., is a sitcom that is more uncomfortably amusing than laugh-out
loud hilarious. It's set in the office of a paper company in the
English town of Slough.
On Lost, in the episode "Homecoming,"
we learn in a flashback to Charlie's life pre-plane crash that the
father of a woman he's dating is looking to take over a paper company
in Slough.
Of course, if there is actually a paper company in Slough...
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| Non-Tommy: Medical Investigation/Third Watch |
[Apr. 24th, 2005|12:33 pm] |
With Third Watch on its way out (or so I've heard), is this a last desperate attempt from the network to get people to watch that? Or to get the last of the Third Watch viewers to watch Medical Investigations? Either way, the crossover happened. And with Third Watch already linked to "ER", they've got their own little universe going over there.
However, none of these shows are officially linked to Tommy's Mind. Sadly. I'd love to drag them in, but I cannot justify it.
But keep these three shows in mind. Some day, somehow, they'll link to the multiverse. Trust me. |
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| Non-Tommy Crossover: Alias/Lost |
[Jan. 13th, 2005|10:06 pm] |
Yes, J.J. Abrams is the hot thing with two hot shows and seemingly as
much interest in making crossovers out of minutiae as Tom Fontana, the
patron saint of this LJ community. (Okay, okay, I just canonized him,
but canon is canon, 'kay?)
While I've never seen more than two episodes of Alias and nothing of
Lost (yet), I must bow down to the crossover discovered at Thom Holbrook's Crossover Universe site.
Now if only Sydney Bristow would investigate an X-File or if there's a
doctor on the island of the Lost who has won the Cushing Award...
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