ratcreature: WTF!? (WTF!?)
RatCreature ([personal profile] ratcreature) wrote2007-11-10 12:05 am
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WTF?

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.

[identity profile] teneagles.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, it's not like CSI and WAT are spin-offs from each other, like the different SG flavors or Buffy and Angel.

Well, the real reason for crossovers is to increase viewers to one of the shows -- In this case, they wanted viewers to not switch to another network when CSI ended. Ratings are more than enough incentive for the producers and network execs to have a crossover.

[identity profile] teneagles.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
I couldn't agree with you more about DC. I've been gaffiated for months; the crossovers and "events" are so incomprehensible and pointless that it's turned me off comics altogether. *sigh* It's all just so, so, badly done. Dan Didio's got a lot to answer for.