Death of TV Shows
Fire, Ice and Hospital Scrubs
Death and Loving It
Games with Death
A Forever Knight/ Buffy/ X-Files Crossover
Prologue:
Let us pause, for a moment, in our ponderings and consider what would happen if there were a Death of TV shows. Now when I say "Death" I mean the person – the anthropomorphic personification – of death. All TV shows end (though I admit, quite a few seem to go on forever . . .) and it is quite often that those who are producing the show end it by killing one or more of the main characters. To be frank, I hate this kind of ending, because often they are used to stop the show whether or not it is ready to end. Of course, it may also be because it's almost always my favorite character that they end up killing in the process . . . but that's a different story.
Now let us imagine that this Death is responsible for going to all the sadly-ended shows and taking care of the causalities. Let us imagine furthermore that after the show is finished, it does not in fact continue in that universe as one would expect, but floats around frozen in time for however long the show lasted – an eight season show, for example, would drift around for another eight seasons (not including reruns.) At that point, Death would be responsible for "taking care of" the citizens of the show.
As we know, however, it is only the imaginations and dreams of the viewers that keep the characters alive at all. So even after the hovering time, the characters would not be precisely "dead." Therefore, Death has to take care of the floaters as well. After all, there are only so many TV shows, and Death has a lot of free time.
As you might have guessed, this Death would probably not be typical, being made of things very unlike those of the "real world." It might even be possible for Death to get bored between the endings of TV shows.
And, of course, there is always the possibility that Death actually watches the shows, and has grown to enjoy watching the characters, despite their being not real. Except they are – Death has to deal with them; they are brought alive by minds such as our own, and by fan fiction written far after the original stories have been completed . . . and even after the author's death.
You see, this Death was not created. Just as the characters were once played by actors, so was Death once human. Death does not want to be human again – oh, no. But humans aren't the only ones who can have fun; humans aren't the only ones who don't want their favorite characters to float in nothingness before fading away.
If you had a choice, to create and keep enough faith in some characters for them to live on in a world of your own, would you? And would you do this even if it meant that all different peoples from all different 'verses had to live in the same world?
And then you must ask yourself: what of the dead ones?
Prologue:
Let us pause, for a moment, in our ponderings and consider what would happen if there were a Death of TV shows. Now when I say "Death" I mean the person – the anthropomorphic personification – of death. All TV shows end (though I admit, quite a few seem to go on forever . . .) and it is quite often that those who are producing the show end it by killing one or more of the main characters. To be frank, I hate this kind of ending, because often they are used to stop the show whether or not it is ready to end. Of course, it may also be because it's almost always my favorite character that they end up killing in the process . . . but that's a different story.
Now let us imagine that this Death is responsible for going to all the sadly-ended shows and taking care of the causalities. Let us imagine furthermore that after the show is finished, it does not in fact continue in that universe as one would expect, but floats around frozen in time for however long the show lasted – an eight season show, for example, would drift around for another eight seasons (not including reruns.) At that point, Death would be responsible for "taking care of" the citizens of the show.
As we know, however, it is only the imaginations and dreams of the viewers that keep the characters alive at all. So even after the hovering time, the characters would not be precisely "dead." Therefore, Death has to take care of the floaters as well. After all, there are only so many TV shows, and Death has a lot of free time.
As you might have guessed, this Death would probably not be typical, being made of things very unlike those of the "real world." It might even be possible for Death to get bored between the endings of TV shows.
And, of course, there is always the possibility that Death actually watches the shows, and has grown to enjoy watching the characters, despite their being not real. Except they are – Death has to deal with them; they are brought alive by minds such as our own, and by fan fiction written far after the original stories have been completed . . . and even after the author's death.
You see, this Death was not created. Just as the characters were once played by actors, so was Death once human. Death does not want to be human again – oh, no. But humans aren't the only ones who can have fun; humans aren't the only ones who don't want their favorite characters to float in nothingness before fading away.
If you had a choice, to create and keep enough faith in some characters for them to live on in a world of your own, would you? And would you do this even if it meant that all different peoples from all different 'verses had to live in the same world?
And then you must ask yourself: what of the dead ones?