I have this one friend on my f-list who is always begging me to a) write Dexter fanfic, or b) write a Dexter/CM crossover. But I'm always begging her to write Alien femmeslash, so I guess we're even.
I think a crossover could be done, but it would take a very skilled writer to pull it off. It would take some doing to balance the tensions between Dexter fans (who root for him) and CM fans (who root for the team) in order to create a story that is satisfying overall--ultimately it would require the kind of skill on the part of the writer that can convince readers to go along with completely different presentations of well-known characters.
That's a lot of work. I'd have to have a burning fever for the characters and the kind of fabulous plot that is so shiny and awesome that all that bright shininess keeps you awake at night. Since that kind of celestial convergence doesn't happen very often, that's probably why there aren't enough Dexter/CM crossovers.
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Date: Jan. 12th, 2010 11:04 pm (UTC)I think a crossover could be done, but it would take a very skilled writer to pull it off. It would take some doing to balance the tensions between Dexter fans (who root for him) and CM fans (who root for the team) in order to create a story that is satisfying overall--ultimately it would require the kind of skill on the part of the writer that can convince readers to go along with completely different presentations of well-known characters.
That's a lot of work. I'd have to have a burning fever for the characters and the kind of fabulous plot that is so shiny and awesome that all that bright shininess keeps you awake at night. Since that kind of celestial convergence doesn't happen very often, that's probably why there aren't enough Dexter/CM crossovers.