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I've been thinking about crossovers because people keep bringing up the Supernatural/Buffy comparisons and it makes my head hurt. I mean, I can see the elements the shows supposedly have in common ... but the underlying schemas are just so different. Not even the cosmology, really, but the rules of narrative. In Buffy the Winchesters would be villains** and in Angel they'd be psychopaths.

** [O]ne of the painful things about SPN is the extent to which it returns to generic conventions about the horror of Otherness that BtVS so thoroughly overturned. Which is why BtVS felt like fantasy (not all Otherness is horrific and triumph is not a return to the status quo) and why SPN may need to become less horror-like and more fantasy-like as it establishes a broader fictional universe. But maybe I just think so because I'm not very sympathetic to horror.