WTF?

[ratcreature]

Now tv has inter-series crossovers too, that force you to watch the other show you don't know anything about? (I just found out that after I watched this week's CSI that it is a two parter and that the other half is an episode of some series called "Without a Trace" that I don't think I've ever seen. *grump*)

And here I thought only comics did this kind of thing.

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[cathexys.livejournal.com]

on the same network it's fairly common...i think Buffy/Angel was the first cross-network one.

Ally McBeal crossed with The practice (and that might have been network crossing too with Fox and ABC) and L&O crossed all over the place (most notable with Homicide...one of the Homicide regulars joined SVU lster as his own character!)

There's some XF/Millenium crossover too, and then, of course, the bazillion spinoffs where you get one or two eps crossing every once in a while (CSI and Miami or JAG and NCIS, Grey's Anatomy's new spinoff...I'm sure we'll see one or the other character there...)

I think they try to do it so the shows can stand by themselves, and on both Buffy/Angel and SG1/SGA the other half of the eps is not on the DVDs...

[ratcreature]

Well, crossovers in one ep are one thing, I have nothing against the WAT guy visiting Las Vegas, it's the two part aspect that I find annoying. I don't recall that the XF/Millenium xover required me to watch an actual Millenium ep. Same with Homicide.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure the Homicide actually had a proper two parter, b/c I'd never watched it before and saw it only because I wanted to know who the murderer had been.

But you're right, XF and a lot of the character crossovers don't require you see it...

[ratcreature]

I mean the XF/Homicide overlap with Munch's apeearance not requiring to watch other series, not the L&O one. Since I watched Homicide only sporadically and L&O never (I mean, the title alone is off-putting), I didn't catch their crossover episodes.