Five weird BtVS crossovers for someone else to write...

[ffutures]

Not a meme, prompted by me trying to remember what was on my memory stick and failing miserably... I think I'll post this as a challenge on a couple of sites.

1: Volcano: It's set in LA, it's got a volcano, what more do you want? Maybe Wolfram and Hart summon it in some way, maybe it's what's left of the area around the Hyperion after Not Fade Away, maybe mad cultists decide that the One Ring (currently incarnated as Dawn Summers) needs to be sacrified there.

Incidentally, there's a lovely panning shot right at the end of this otherwise lacklustre film that shows LA with the volcano, I'd really like to see it in an Angel fan-vid some time...

2: Good Omens: I think it's canon that Robin Wood was bought up by his mother's Watcher - whose name was Crowley. Apologies if this isn't so, but if it is there are some interesting plot possibilities, if only one or another Crowley picking up the White Courtesy Phone at an airport and hearing something intended for the other one.

3: Broken Arrow: The Initiative is the nearest military unit when the nukes are nicked. And demonic forces are also after them.

4: Prehistoric Park: The First Slayer stumbles across the time portal while it's open, and steps forward to the present day. Chaos and time paradoxes ensue.

5: The Sopranos / Highlander: The family has trouble with a vampire gang moving in on their territory, but someone half-remembers a story of an old debt owed to them by a group called the Watchers. Unfortunately the Watchers they eventually locate are the wrong ones...

Really doubt that I want to write any of these, but someone might.

Comments

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

That is about the only justification for Volcano that makes sense. The movie is truly awful. I used to use it as a teaching aid/mocking device in my Earthquakes and Volcanoes class. It was my final exam--the students had to tell me everything the movie did wrong about the premise and execution of a volcano popping up in LA. In short: stupidest movie ever.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Did you show them that other one - forget the title, has the hero caught halfway up a volcano and trying to escape, and running into things like a lake suddenly turned to acid? Total crap as I recall.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Yup. That one is Dante's Peak, which actually isn't as scientifically rotten as Volcano. And while the special effects of the 1970s version of Earthquake were terrible, the geophysics behind it wasn't bad. I think we also had shown one with an earthquake in NYC, and that fairly recent one where LA broke off of California and floated away. Why must Hollywood make such atrocious crap? Ugh.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Should add that I'm not a fan of bad volcano movies - both of them are on laserdiscs I got in bulk purchases, came across Volcano tonight while sorting out some disks I don't want to offer as a buying incentive when I sell my player.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, Dante's Peak - I still have it somewhere, I think, but watching it once was more than enough. Ditto Volcano, of course.

LA broke off of California and floated away

Riiiiight...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

some disks I don't want to offer...

some disks I don't want, to offer...

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Try watching it twice in a row, four times a year for three years...

I think they even made a sequel to the floaty one where the US split right down the middle--involved staving off a nuclear meltdown in Texas or something. Made me want to weep.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Intentionally bad volcano movies could be fun, but the fact that the producers took themselves seriously is profoundly depressing. Volcanoes are scary enough without making them object of mock.

Hollywood and Crap.

[xxmagex.livejournal.com]

Why must Hollywood make such atrocious crap? Ugh.

Well I actually think it's a requirement of the Writers Union. My favorite was the movie where a Submarine was dodging sinking Ice below the water. Someone in the theater yelled out "Ice Floats!"

Re: Hollywood and Crap.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

*snort*

That's just classic. Ah, Hollywood, how I loathe your presentation of scientific principles.

[laney-1974.livejournal.com]

I'm a sucker for bad natural disaster films. It's like Bad!Fic you can't look away. Mocking them is so much fun.

But back to the challenges: number 4 is a good one. I never would have thought of that (although I've only ever seen one episode of Prehistoric Park).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

You could do something similar with most time travel settings.

[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

That's some good ideas there - and some stories I'd like to read. However, I doubt I could execute them well enough myself!

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Discovery Channel in Canada has a daily science news show. (Used to be called @Discovery.ca, now called Daily Planet.) Back when Volcano and Dante's Peak came out they had a volcanologist do movie reviews for both of them. He gave Dante's Peak a reasonable score, (I think three out of five, or something like that) but totally dissed Volcano.

Re: Hollywood and Crap.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think that bad science / history in submarine movies is more or less a given. Try asking a Brit with some WW2 knowledge about U-571 some time...

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. As I said, the science behind Dante's Peak wasn't bad, more sloppy. They mixed andesitic and basaltic flows, underestimated the force of the lahar, and a few other technical glitches. It was the acting that did me in. People were just...stupid.