Did I miss a post on this? Marvel will be releasing Hope Assembles, a crossover between the MCU and Star Wars, written by Kevin Smith. Is this going to be epic, or just an excuse to sell merch? And does it make a different to the "purity" of either property at this point?
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This reminds me of a story...
Back in '77, I was envious that my across-the-street neighbor got to see Star Wars with his church group weeks before I did because it was being "held over" in the larger St. Louis cinemas. He was telling me about it, and said that it takes place at the time of the Civil War. "The American Civil War?" I asked. How can that be, I wanted to know, when Star Wars famously took place "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." His response: "Well, the Civil War was a long time ago."
I read somewhere that the "Journal of the Whills" was originally intended to link the Star Wars saga with our reality but the idea was later abandoned.
Regarding Hope Assembles: "I've got a bad feeling about this."
There was an X-Men/Star Trek crossover once, about which I remember very little. That probably means I didn't care for it. But with Patrick Stewart having played both Captain Picard and Professor X on the big screen, there was something surreal about the idea.
There were two, and unfortunately, I remember them both.
The first featured TOS crew and I was really, really hoping it would have featured the original X-Men as well. The full page panel of the realistically drawn Captain Kirk standing face-to-face with the "super-heroically" drawn Cyclops is an image forever burned into my brain. (The issue had one chuckle: someone said, "Dr. McCoy" and both Hank and Bones respond.)
The second one featured the TNG crew.
IDW did a much better job of crossing over the TNG crew with Doctor Who (the Eleventh).
A flashback within that story, however, crossed over the best Doctor with the best Captain.
I really liked the Trek/Who crossover comics. Who/Trek has been begging to happen for some time. In some alternate timeline, "Assignment: Earth" was written, not to introduce a hypothetical new SF series that never sold, but to introduce Doctor Who to a broader North American audience.*
Trek/Legion of Superheroes wasn't bad, and including some amusing Easter Eggs that implied crossovers with several other time travel movie/franchises in mass media history.
The Trek crossover with Planet of the Apes was.... interesting. It at least explained how those chimps managed to salvage a ship and find their way back to 1970s earth.
*I believe that may be the same timeline where The Munsters met the Addams Family, the "Davy Jones" ep of The Brady Bunch focused instead on Keith Partridge and led to a full-on crossover special, and The Magical Mystery Tour was worth watching for more than the songs. I think that the space program continued on in that reality as well.
I liked 'em both, myself.
Back to Hope Assembles, if Star Wars had taken place in the Andromeda Galaxy (2.5 million light years away from the Milky Way), that would be "a galaxy close, close by." Don't even get me started on "a long time ago." It would take a helluva trick to get me to willingly suspend my sense of disbelief that these two universes could be connected in any way whatsoever.
"Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, sonic-bonic bullsh*t", to mix my quotations.
By which I mean, "They'll come up with a reason, however implausible."
"Somehow, Palpatine survived."
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