It's Tommy Westphall's World...We Just Live In It

[liz_marcs]

soopah sekrit to crossoverman the genius behind Tommy Westphall's Mind — A Multiverse Explored:

This article by Dwayne McDuffie was published back in 2002, but I only just found it (which may explain why it's pointing to a site that's not yours).

Best. Quote. Evah! On the Tommy Westphall Universe:

All of these would help me prove my Grand Unification Theory, which posits: "The last five minutes of St. Elsewhere is the only television show, ever. Everything else is a daydream."
— Dwayne McDuffie, Six Degrees of St. Elsewhere

Still, if you really want the final authority on just how much television Tommy Westphall continues to destroy thanks to the final scenes of St. Elsewhere, you must check out crossoverman's fantastic page, Tommy Westphall's Mind — A Multiverse Explored.

This meta-filter entry is a good primer if you're still confused after reading the wikki entry on Tommy Westphall and crossoverman's web site

As you can tell, I'm a huge fan of crossoverman's work.

Comments

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

*stares* : ) That's pretty damned impressive, I must admit...

I don't suppose you have St. Elsewhere on tape or DVD? I've never seen it. *grin*

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Very sadly, no. I have Fontana's other show (Homicide: Life on the Streets, the best damn show on television, ever) up to S5, but I have nothing for St. Elsewhere.

It's in my Netflix cue, but I'm going to one-disc-at-a-time so I can actually watch the DVDs I own.

And, hey! Congrats on getting things straightened out (I was hiding under a desk last night, so I didn't get to respond to your LJ). Heee! Guess it's all comin' soon.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

Yup. Of course, now that it IS, the butterflies in the stomach have hatched... *grin*

Or maybe that's just me hoping I can get my laptop up and running on the Internet properly this evening. I definitely need to have that done before I hit the road.

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

Awwww. *blushes*

The McDuffie article was one of our inspirations early on. And since then, many of the shows (if not all) he suggests would bring in whole lists of others - like Happy Days and Mary Tyler Moore - have actually been connected to Tommy's Mind as well!

The page he links to has been a source of some help across the years. Thom Holbrook is attempting to catalogue every crossover ever - so occasionally we'll find connections between his separate universes. We've helped him to clarify connections in the past, too. It's like doing a family tree!

Tom Fontana of St Elsewhere, Homicide, Oz and others was also quoted as saying he knew about some of these connections - but expected it would cover 90% of television. So he continues to make these little connections himself in his shows. We were also linked to in his blog a few years back!

My partner in crime at tommywestphall, westphallian, is a little behind with the update of spreadsheets and jpegs and pdf files... but at current count, we have 280 shows linked to St. Elsewhere!

Only one season of St. Elsewhere is out on DVD at the moment. The irony being, even I have seen very little of that show. I've constructed this whole fun theory around it's closing minutes and I really have little memory of the show myself. This whole thing was born in Homicide fandom back in Usenet days! That is to say pre-LJ, which is like the Jurassic period really :-)

Thanks for the linkage!