Even though I did have the crossover thought, I think I'd rather they not. Having genre shows that aren't specifically set in the same universe is a mistake. It often feels forced, especially when the whole style of the shows is totally different.
True, but that's the thing -- at this point, they seem to have surprisingly similar styles. They're both in interstellar, human-only settings dominated by evil corporations. So their universes seem to be roughly compatible, more so than most SF universes. I mean, you couldn't fit, say,
Farscape and
Stargate SG-1 into the same reality, because they had different cosmologies, different alien populations, and different versions of when humanity made first contact with aliens. And you couldn't fit either of them together with
Firefly, because that's a universe without FTL travel and without aliens. But so far, these two shows' universes exhibit a number of similarities and no clear inconsistencies. We'll probably see a different FTL effect in
Killjoys at some point, but maybe they're in different centuries and one features a more advanced drive technology than the other.
Of course, we've already had Rob Stewart playing two different characters in the two shows, so they're not a perfect fit. But hey, Saul Rubinek played a different character on
Eureka before he played Artie on
Warehouse 13.
But... why oh why the lens flares?
They've been part of the cinematographers' toolbox for decades. I don't see any reason to expect filmmakers to stop using them. (I think I read or heard once that filmmakers originally tried to avoid lens flares or artifacts that would give away the presence of the camera, but around the '60s or '70s, the new generation of directors and DPs began embracing such artifacts as artistic devices in their own right, perhaps to give a sort of verite texture. Or maybe just because they knew that audiences were aware of the artificiality of film, so they decided to use it instead of trying to hide it.)
As I recall, Lindsey Wagner popped up in a ALPHAS episode, playing her recurring character from WH13 . . . although she was there in her capacity as a medical doctor and her secret connection to WH13 was not mentioned.
So, basically, a guest-star from WH13 guest-starred on ALPHAS as well, playing the same character.
Yes... fortunately, you could watch that episode of
Alphas without realizing the character came from another show. Still, I just can't accept that the two shows are in the same universe. I choose to think Wagner was just playing a different reality's version of the equivalent character, like
Sherlock's version of Sherlock Holmes versus
Elementary's version, or Christian Bale's Batman versus Adam West's.
