Worth it for the Duchovny cameo alone
Ack! Don't mention it! I mentioned Bobby Wingood (even getting out my X-Files reference book which has laid dust-covered in my room these many years) but purposely avoided mentioning Duchovny; I just remember how funny the suprise was the first time I saw it.
I would have given anything to be a fly on the wall for the first script reading.
I would have been surprised they were even bothering with first script readings by that point.
The Stupendous Yappi in the Jossverse would have been great, as would any little reference to the Carterverse; a big crossover would have been obtrusive, but little things like that would have kicked all kinds of ass. How about Jose Chung returning to write a book about vampires, so we got to see the Angel or Buffy gangs through his eyes?
s(c'mon, Chung doesn't have to have been All dead!)
I did have one wacky idea for an X-Files/Angel crossover though. In late 2001/2002 a Jerry Springer ep, "My baby is going to play a pivotal role in the Apocalypse" w/ both Baby William and Connor appearing and ending in a huge brawl w/ Mulder and Angel vs. Holtz and the Aliens.
Another one I had was Skinner and Lorne comparing notes on shooting one-armed morally ambiguous villains.
I'm so glad that Joss Whedon doesn't think like Chris Carter though; we'd currently be in Buffy Season Nine despite SMG having left (there'd be one that was just her e-mailing Angel though), and Willow would have been pregnant for two years or something.
Bringing Lucy Lawless in would have been rather more meta, what with the Xena references on prior shows and all...
One of the more decent crossover fics has Scully in LA being saved by a vision and telling the AI folks that she's not going to tell them why she's looking for Mulder because they'd never believe her. I like the story because she can't quite figure out Angel from a medical standpoint but she never finds out he's a vampire.
That sounds pretty cool. The only one I read involved Mulder and Scully coming to Sunnydale to investigate mysterious deaths; the plot did explain why the Master's bones were preserved (as vampires get older more of them is preserved when they are slain, enough dust in some cases to bring Mulder and Scully in to investigate) but then it degenerated into Mulder hooking up w/ Buffy and Scully getting interested in Giles...ick.
This fellow who goes by the name of Donner has some comedy crossovers (as well as lots of other high-larious stuff) at www.slightlywarped.com. Great site.
It's squicky. Not as squicky as Buffy/Giles, but squicky
Well, if it was an organic story development it might have worked, but it wasn't, it was just forced in there b/c the writer wanted to merge her favourite characters.
Don't even get me started on Buffy/Giles...I'd like to hear what Freud would say about whoever wanted to put Buffy w/ her acknowledged father figure.
Mulder: I lost a sister.
Buffy: I found one.
Mulder hooking up w/ Buffy
See, I can totally see Buffy going after Mulder, as her fondness for brooding, tormented guys with a gift for snark is well documented. It's the reverse of that which squicks massively.
Now Mulder/Willow on the other hand....
That last item was a joke, just in case someone thought I was serious.
