#crossover blues

Logan Lucky/Ocean’s 8 crossover.

Debbie needs a +1 to her cousin’s wedding.  It takes her at least twenty minutes to convince Lou that it’s just a wedding, there is no job, there is no job within a job, no heist, just a wedding, in West Virginia, she hasn’t seen these people in forever, it’ll be weird, Lou please, and finally Lou resigns herself to going (and pining quietly over Debbie, forever pining over Debbie).  Debbie’s cousin is a one-handed bartender; his intended is a gorgeous woman with a strangely Clint Eastwood-esque voice who Lou is pretty sure was staking her out about three years back (she was, of course she was; Lou will never know how close she came to being arrested herself).  Everyone keeps mentioning “Charlotte,” as in “Charlotte Motor Speedway,” as in “There’s no way that heist wasn’t committed by one of Debbie’s relatives,” but then they all solemnly agree that it was insurance fraud and it’s a damn shame no one will ever do time for it and no one in Debbie’s family can commit that kind of crime without bragging so??? Also Daphne Kluger is around with some race car driver -- Darlton or Dalton or Dayton or whoever -- scouting locations for a movie, and everyone else starts showing up, and none of this seems weird for Debbie but all of it is weird for Lou (why is everyone talking about cauliflower all the damn time?) and then the ex-FBI agent who is marrying Debbie’s one-handed cousin sits Lou down and starts giving her surprisingly good romantic advice in that weird gravelly Clint Eastwood voice and when the crime starts up it is honestly, kind of a relief.

(I have no idea what the crime is going to be.  This, probably, is why I’ll never write it.  Heists just aren’t my thing.)

Anyway Nine Ball starts Sadie Logan down the path to being a hacker, Mellie hotwires something flashy (possibly an actual Indy car), Debbie is shocked to learn that “Fish Bang” is actually someone’s real name, no, really, and everything works out.  Clyde and Sarah get married, Lou and Debbie kiss.  There’s a fake arm somewhere in the background.  Cue the John Denver.

It’s certainly something I’ve mulled over on several occasions.  There’s some interesting possibilities with the New York cast, with Britt’s MIT connection – I have ever contemplated the possibility that her phone (Kiki was the name, I think?) could be the voice of the Machine; that might be interesting.  It’s a possibility, for sure.

I do want to point out though, that BYL is probably about a year out from actually being done, and that’s assuming a good, concentrated push all the way through.  And then the speed of any Glee/POI crossover would depend entirely on how much world-building I put into it and how much it grew on me.  (I’d like to think this could be something around a Big Bang size, maybe 50k at most, but I thought that about BYL, too, and. Well.)

Joining the DHARMA Initiative brings Brittany, Kurt, and Burt face-to-face with people they lost a long time ago, but they're not the only ones seeing ghosts.  Hurley's decision to follow Jack could lead him to a way off Hydra Island, but it could also lead all of them into disaster.

A little over three years ago (and roughly thirty years from today), Kate Austen helped a man named Ethan Goodspeed make his way to the Orchid. Not even twenty-four hours later, she saved a woman named Amy from two men with guns.

Until today, she never thought those two things were connected.

Maybe the question isn't whether or not she can change things, but who she'll have to hurt to make that happen, and whether it's worth it.

BYL 3.1 is getting posted on Monday, March 30th, and new chapters every Monday after that.