...huh?

Well colour me excited.

Voyagers is on Amazon Prime.  /thread

I'm again torn by a fanfic. It starts off so well, but then ends so weak.

Even while I recognized the clips of Sherlock because I've watched the series at least a half-dozen times, for the first couple minutes I honestly wasn't sure if it was fan-made or not. Great job setting it up and editing to make it feel legit and build tension.

Then Sherlock gets in the TARDIS and it all falls apart. I don't even care about the fact that the VFX made their faces look like the baby in Entrade commercials. It got the point across, even if I felt there were ways to edit around it to minimize that particular effect. As long as the point is across, I'm fine with less than perfect effects.

No, it's just that once Sherlock gets in the TARDIS, the dialog turns into the likes of an Ebaum's world sound board crank call (showing my age on that reference). The dialog was disjointed and spent about a minute and a half saying nothing at all. I know it's tricky because you'd like to use direct lines from each character, but there's so much Cumberbatch and Smith dialog to choose from (you don't even need to limit yourself to Sherlock/Who, either) that I can't imagine that it would be impossible to splice together a minute of genuinely interesting banter between those two characters.

...and now I'm contemplating a potential crossover story.

I don't like the idea of the Doctor, particularly Matt Smith's bumbling immature know-it-all version, leading Sherlock around for an adventure. I think it'd be much more interesting to have a situation like in Human Nature / Family of Blood, where the Doctor has transmitted his Time Lord essence into some macguffin that becomes the subject of one of Sherlock's cases. Smith comes to Sherlock because something of his has been stolen and while he doesn't know why, it's immensely important for him to get it back.

Sherlock takes the case of the missing item (let's go with Pocket Watch), much to the surprise of Watson. Sherlock explains that it's not about the watch, but rather he sees something off with Smith himself.

S: Something off. He moves like a person, speaks like a person, looks like a person...
W: Most people do.
S: ...but there's something off. Something missing. It's like he's merely playing a part.
W: So he's trying to con us?
S: I don't think the con is for us, John.
W: Well who's it for then?
S: I think it might be for him.

They hunt down the watch. Steal it back instead of involving the police, as they aren't sure what to make of Smith or the mysteriously strange people they encounter along the way (aliens, obviously). Those that stole the watch come after Sherlock & Watson. Smith becomes the Doctor again, saves the day and our Baker Street heroes. Sherlock is intruiged, Watson is flabergasted, Smith gives us a little rant about how every deed we do impacts the entire universe (validating Sherlock's work) and Bob's your uncle.

The VFX amazes me, but yeah, the dialogue choices were odd. But, then, I am not a Smith fan as the Doctor.
Personally, I would rather watch Cumberbatch as the Doctor. If we are going to fan fic, then Sherlock is a hidden generation, similar to BBQ's idea, except that the Doctor is playing out the life of Sherlock in an attempt to hide himself.

Damn, BBQ. I like your dialogue.

I lost it at

I liked the Harry-Potter-esque bits of molten slag coming off the effect, myself. That's new.

Oh gods yes.