Fone Bone
10-22-2005, 06:17 PM
This is the second crossover round poll. These are the crossovers that will be competing with the winning Static Shock/Zeta Project crossover. This round may be considered a bit controversial as all of the episodes in the poll have already been given their own chances in their respective series. If enough people cry foul only the Static/Zeta crossover winner will go to the finals. However that would pretty much garantee two spots for Static and I thought it would be more fair if the other shows got the chance to have their own crossovers compete.
It's a little bit of a different situation as the crossover episodes were dominating the other poll and mr. jinx and I felt that in order to judge the best Static episode fairly the crossovers would have to be eliminated as most people were voting for them without having seen any of the other episodes. That isn't the case for this group of episodes as most people here who've seen Batman have seen Superman and Batman Beyond as well.
Another thing about this poll that may be considered controversial is that I am not including any Justice League or Justice League Unlimited episodes in the poll. As far as I'm concerned the entire JLU SERIES is just a massive crossover in and of itself. Besides even if it IS set in the same timeframe does anybody think of Epiogue as a "crossover" with Batman Beyond? Considering there wasn't really a crossover element, I don't.
Justice League is trickier. I suppose I COULD have counted Hereafter as a crossover with Superman: The Animated series but if I did that ANY JL episode with cast members from either series could be considered a crossover (Injustice For All, Twilight, Secret Society, A Better World, Starcrossed, Wild Cards, etc.) In the end I simply decided to put it in the same category as JLU.
Two of the odder crossovers on this poll are The Call and Countdown. While it's true that the Superman or the Justice League in this episode don't exactly "cross over" to the Batman Beyond universe as is, it it still a crossover in principal, just in a different timeframe. Perhaps Countdown as a Zeta crossover should have been done in the other poll but again, so many people have seen that episode it would have had an unfair advantage over some of the other crossovers. Plus, it takes place in the "mainstream" DCAU so I almost placed it here by default.
It's a little bit of a different situation as the crossover episodes were dominating the other poll and mr. jinx and I felt that in order to judge the best Static episode fairly the crossovers would have to be eliminated as most people were voting for them without having seen any of the other episodes. That isn't the case for this group of episodes as most people here who've seen Batman have seen Superman and Batman Beyond as well.
Another thing about this poll that may be considered controversial is that I am not including any Justice League or Justice League Unlimited episodes in the poll. As far as I'm concerned the entire JLU SERIES is just a massive crossover in and of itself. Besides even if it IS set in the same timeframe does anybody think of Epiogue as a "crossover" with Batman Beyond? Considering there wasn't really a crossover element, I don't.
Justice League is trickier. I suppose I COULD have counted Hereafter as a crossover with Superman: The Animated series but if I did that ANY JL episode with cast members from either series could be considered a crossover (Injustice For All, Twilight, Secret Society, A Better World, Starcrossed, Wild Cards, etc.) In the end I simply decided to put it in the same category as JLU.
Two of the odder crossovers on this poll are The Call and Countdown. While it's true that the Superman or the Justice League in this episode don't exactly "cross over" to the Batman Beyond universe as is, it it still a crossover in principal, just in a different timeframe. Perhaps Countdown as a Zeta crossover should have been done in the other poll but again, so many people have seen that episode it would have had an unfair advantage over some of the other crossovers. Plus, it takes place in the "mainstream" DCAU so I almost placed it here by default.