Ooh, that's probably the smartest thing I've ever heard of Bones doing.
Incidentally, do you do books in Toobworld? Only it was quite interesting to note that the latest Jasper Fforde/Thursday Next book (Fforde has created a kind of fictional, bookworld version of Toobworld in which all sorts of old literary characters (eg Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre, etc) mill around with each other in the bookworld and the 'real' world) features Dr Temperance Brennan (by kind permission of Kathy Reichs).
I've always been tempted to expand Toobworld into at least the tie-in novels for such shows as 'Star Trek', 'Doctor Who', and the like. But they create far too many discrepancies to deal with. Better to just say that characters we know and love in the TV universe also exist in the literary universe.
(Never could figure out a catchy name for the literary universe. Toobworld/TV Land, the Tooniverse, and the Cineverse from the books by Craig Shaw Gardner work, but what would be the perfect name for a universe centering around books?)
I was sorry to make the distinction as there was one 'Star Trek' novel that really rocked for the TV universe. "Ishmael" by Barbara Hambly had Spock in the world of 'Here Come The Brides' and featured un-named TV characters from other Westerns, like Maverick and Paladin.
As the Trickster once said, "Reality is boring, that's why I change it whenever I can."
I'm just "The Man Who Viewed Too Much", and "Inner Toob" is a blog exploring and celebrating the 'reality' of an alternate universe in which everything that ever happened on TV actually takes place.
Most of my theories about the TV Universe come from thinking inside the box and thus can't be proven. But I've never been one to shy away from a tall tale.....
Remember: "The more you watch, the more you've seen!"
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Ooh, that's probably the smartest thing I've ever heard of Bones doing.
Incidentally, do you do books in Toobworld? Only it was quite interesting to note that the latest Jasper Fforde/Thursday Next book (Fforde has created a kind of fictional, bookworld version of Toobworld in which all sorts of old literary characters (eg Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre, etc) mill around with each other in the bookworld and the 'real' world) features Dr Temperance Brennan (by kind permission of Kathy Reichs).
I've always been tempted to expand Toobworld into at least the tie-in novels for such shows as 'Star Trek', 'Doctor Who', and the like. But they create far too many discrepancies to deal with. Better to just say that characters we know and love in the TV universe also exist in the literary universe.
(Never could figure out a catchy name for the literary universe. Toobworld/TV Land, the Tooniverse, and the Cineverse from the books by Craig Shaw Gardner work, but what would be the perfect name for a universe centering around books?)
I was sorry to make the distinction as there was one 'Star Trek' novel that really rocked for the TV universe. "Ishmael" by Barbara Hambly had Spock in the world of 'Here Come The Brides' and featured un-named TV characters from other Westerns, like Maverick and Paladin.
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