Spoilers Star Trek / Green Lantern "The Spectrum War"

[Christopher]

You can add me to the list of people who were surprised at the ending--one all-but-guaranteed to make this an "imaginary" story for every universe in question.

I consider that a given right off the bat for any crossover like this. The "alternate universes" excuse doesn't really work for me, since alternate timelines should still have the same laws of physics, yet different SF universes tend to have rather different physics, not to mention cosmologies. Not to mention that they sometimes have a tendency to be mutually fictional (for instance, Star Trek exists as a TV franchise within the Doctor Who universe, not to mention the Marvel Universe and probably the DC Universe).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Not to mention that they sometimes have a tendency to be mutually fictional (for instance, Star Trek exists as a TV franchise within the Doctor Who universe

Is the reverse also true? Because that would be really meta.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I read the final issue of this today. I have to say that I didn't enjoy it at all. Probably a large part of that is due to my unfamiliarity with the Green Lantern mythos. I mean, I've heard the basics about Green Lantern, but I didn't know that there were other ring colours, and they were tied to different emotions, etc. That being said... I enjoyed the crossovers with Doctor Who and Legion of Super-Heroes, and I'm not really familiar with those properties, either.

The story just struck me as kinda dumb, and the ending as anticlimatic. I was obviously not part of the target audience for this. If I didn't have this need to finish a series I've started, I probably could have stopped buying this after issue 2, and it wouldn't have bothered me. Ah well, better luck next time.

 

[Idran]

(for instance, Star Trek exists as a TV franchise within the Doctor Who universe, not to mention the Marvel Universe and probably the DC Universe).

Then again, that didn't stop Kramer from renting Paul Buchman's old apartment.

 

[Christopher]

Probably a large part of that is due to my unfamiliarity with the Green Lantern mythos. I mean, I've heard the basics about Green Lantern, but I didn't know that there were other ring colours, and they were tied to different emotions, etc.

That's a fairly recent addition to the mythos, developed by Geoff Johns starting in 2004. Well, Sinestro has had a yellow ring since the '60s, I think, but it was Johns who extrapolated it to a whole spectrum, each with its own corps.

 

[TheAlmanac]

Then again, that didn't stop Kramer from renting Paul Buchman's old apartment.

Or John Munch from interrogating The Lone Gunmen when The X-Files had been mentioned as a TV series (by Munch!) in Homicide: Life on the Street.

 

[Christopher]

Or John Munch from interrogating The Lone Gunmen when The X-Files had been mentioned as a TV series (by Munch!) in Homicide: Life on the Street.

Or Batman and the Green Hornet watching each other on TV and then crossing over. Or Virgil in Static Shock referring to Clark Kent and Superman as fictional in the first season and then meeting Batman, Superman, and most of the Justice League in later seasons. So yeah, it happens, but it's bothersome from a continuity standpoint.

 

[Idran]

Well, unless we just declare that every second-level-fictional story is "ripped from the headlines" Law & Order style. Maybe ours is the only universe where writers can be creative enough to not make "based on a true story" narratives.