Before I get started, I want to give a little background for this blog. The concept for this blog started with a movie called "Cloak and Dagger". In the movie "Cloak and Dagger". a young boy named Davy liked to play to video game. During one of his trips to local game store, he finds a game that he hadn't played. He gets the game and takes it home. While playing the game, Davy discovers secret information that makes him a target for spies. He also had an imaginary friend named Jack Flack that gave Davey advice. Jack Flack resembled his Davey's dad, Hal Osbourne. And it was around Hal Osbourne that I developed my first crossover theory. Hal Osbourne was a military pilot with USAF with a rank of a master sergeant. At the time I was also watching "GI Joe" (for those who don't know this is a cartoon show about a military organization dedicated to stopping terrorist organizations, namely COBRA). On "GI Joe" there was a character with a code name of "Flint". Flint was also a military pilot with a ranking of a warrant officer. Back then I believed that "Hal Osbourne" and "Flint" where one and the same. And for very superficial reasons too.
Both Flint and Hal Osborne/Jack Flack had this beret thing going on. And they were in the same of line of work- flying for the military. Nothing ever came of this theory, but maybe one day...
This blog was also influenced by my love the theater. During a time I was searching for monologues to use for auditions, I came across one that I really loved and I think most people have at least heard of. It was from a play by John Guare called "Six Degrees of Separation" (bet you didn't see that a coming). And here is the famous monologue: "I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet. The president of the United States. A gondolier in Venice. fill in the names. I find that A) tremendously comforting that we're so close and B) like Chinese water torture that we're so close. Because you have to find the right six people to make the connection. It's not just big names. It's anyone. A native in a rain forest. A Tierra del Fuegan. An Eskimo. I am bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people. It's a profound thought. How Paul found us. How to find the man whose son he pretends to be. Or perhaps is his son, although I doubt it. How every person is a new door, opening up into other worlds. Six degrees of separation between me and everyone else on this planet. But to find the right six people."
But, in all seriousness, I was intrigued by this. I'd look at my friends and family. I had a cousin in the music industry and my mom worked for an opera company. And I looked at whom they knew and imagined who those people knew. Like the character in play said it is both comforting and scary to think how close and yet how far we are all from each other.
I've also been inspired by many different websites and blogs that I've come across over they years and later I'll try to post the links on the sidebar. Among these are "The Wold Newton Universe" (pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/pulp.htm) and "The Television Crossover Universe" (www.televisioncrossoveruniverse.com). The Wold Newton Universe centers around the concept that in 1795 when a meteor landed in Wold Newton, England- there were a few carriages nearby. The people in the carriages genes were affected by the radiation and because their descendants went on to become famous heroes and/or supervillians. The Television Crossover Universe is basically a site that looks at crossovers that happen on television and film. But I know that I'm not doing the sites enough justice nor the people who run them. I encourage any and all who haven't checked the sites out to check these and any links I may post to the side.
And on this site I will be doing something similar, but hopefully different enough. I will be tracing the connections between different types of media (video games, movies, books, television, etc). To make it interesting, I'll do this by using six connections between the first and the last. I'll be using shared objects (props), shared fiction/media (some will have the same fictional books or tv shows), mentions (when another fictional character is mentioned as being real), possible relation, fictional parallels (one character may be a double of another from another universe), and last but not least a shared character.
Thanks for reading and hoping you enjoy!!!
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