What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You?

Rowan Atkinson played Doctor Who for a Red Nose Day special, Curse of Fatal Death.

Rowan Atkinson played Blackadder with a constant companion, Baldric.

Rowan Atkinson played the amazing Mr Bean.

This is all one character. The Doctor.

Mr Bean is his regeneration madness.

Blackadder is his run of historicals.

Curse of Fatal Death is his finale and regeneration.
yeah I had always considered Mr Bean to be the 20th century Blackadder, never thought to link them to the Doctor though - thats brilliant
 

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yeah I had always considered Mr Bean to be the 20th century Blackadder, never thought to link them to the Doctor though - thats brilliant
And since he eventually regenerates into Joanna Lumley in the Comic Relief special, you could tie the character into Wednesday post-retirement too, with her having a daughter who married into the Addams family. Which would make Wednesday part Outcast, part Time Lord.
 

I've always been a big fan of the Tommy Westphall theory.
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When I first came across the theory, and realized how many shows were legitimately connected, it kinda blew my mind.
I’d never heard of it, so I looked it up.

 


I’d never heard of it, so I looked it up.


Not being a fan of the TV shows concerned the Tommy Westphall dream always seemed a bit too contrived for my liking.

I was always far more enamoured of the Wold Newton Universe created by Phillip Jose Farmer who wrote that a radioactive meteorite had struck Wold Newton in England in 1795 resulting in in genetic mutation that would affect the lineage of a whole slew of literary Pulp characters including- Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes,
Solomon Kane; Captain Blood; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Harry Flashman; Professor Moriarty, Captain Nemo; Phileas Fogg. Farmer used the shared Universe idea as the basis for some of his books.

The Universe has since been expanded (and keeps expanding) to truly mindboggling proportions


Harrison Ford
Then you have the Harrison Ford Universe that starts with hieroglyphs depicting R2D2 and C3P0 in Indiana Jones and the Raiders pf the Lost Ark. Further it is claimed that the alien Skulls Indiana Jones finds in the 'Crystal Skull' belong to the aliens in Close in Encounters of the Third Kind. ET follows and we know his species appears in the Phantom Menace. Then there is speculation that the Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were made with Alien DNA and that Jaws was a hybrid Megalodon
 
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I think the West End Games d6 Star Wars TTRPG mentioned this, and I am never got into extended universe (which to me is everything but the films themselves - save perhaps for a couple of recent shows), so not sure if it ever explicitly came up elsewhere, but I think of the Empire as following an "anti-alien" agenda that is "pro-human" and helps in their divisive tactics to better rule the galaxy and keep people down. This explains why the Empire is all human and the rebellion has a mix of folks working in solidarity.
 
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Yep - the Empire is very much pro-Human. I'm not that deep into the lore but, although the Sith don't much care about race (Maul was a Zabrak, and the original Sith race themselves were red-skinned), there aren't any aliens of note in the service of the Empire itself other than Grand Admiral Thrawn from the novels, a blue-skinned Chiss who rises through the Imperial Navy after the fall of the Empire in episodes IV-VI of the movies. He essentially bootstraps his way up to command rank through his own efforts due to being the most brilliant strategist in the Empire's service. He is, however, largely doing it to pursue his own goals of using the Empire to protect his own people.
 
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