Why don't they at least imply a possible crossover? I mean, Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, for instance, make sense being at Elsa's coronation.
Franchises that could exist in the same universe
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The only issue is that the film says he had been in prison since about 62. The whole time Connery's Bond films took place. I wonder if that was done to avoid Legal threats from the Bond producers. It was Connery himself who added the backstory of his character being a British Agent when he was cast. It was not in the script before that. I think he was totally playing up his history as Bond.
Of course you could still make it work. If a fan wants is to think "John Mason" was just a cover name, his whole reason for being in prison and actual time spend there could have been manufactured as well.
This topic has made me think of common terms that are a pet peeve of mind. "Head Canon" and "Fan Theories". It is a complete contradiction that fans choose want is "official" to them alone. The second is the audience trying to decipher the hidden meaning or creating unseen events. When often they are really just inventing their own story.
There is nothing wrong with doing either one of those things. But it would be more accurate and honest to label both "Fan Interpretation". The way people have different interpretations of the meanings of art and music lyrics. Often are completely different from the creators intentions but still exist as a completely separate thought process.
I'll give you one example: John Munch showed up on an episode of X-Files, yet that show is fictional within the Law & Order/Homicide: Life on the Street universe.
Munch's X-Files cameo was just a one-off joke, really.
Maybe, but then again, maybe not. There could be an explanation for this seeming contradiction. Perhaps the fictional X-Files in universe is based off the adventures of the real characters or the X-Files universe is close to the Homicide/Law&Order universe within a larger multiverse and thus there's people who are doppelgangers who live very similar lives in both universes. I would also point out that Static Shock is in the DCAU, but in an early episode of SS a comment is said that made it seem like Superman was fictional in the show.
And another one: Victor Ehrlich (a character from St. Elsewhere) shows up in the series finale of H:LOTS. Yet this obviously doesn't mean the entirety of L&O/H:LOTS is Tommy Westphall's dream, because it's absolutely possible that in the "real world" of St. Elsewhere, Ehrlich is real (no reason Tommy can't dream about real people, right?).
While I do buy the various series being connected in a universe or at least a multiverse, I don't accept the all the shows are a dream part of the Tommy Westphall Theory for the reason you just stated.
And there's nothing to disprove the theory that in St. Elsewhere, it's the final scene that's the dream, not the entire series.
That's my interpretation. There's nothing at all definitive showing that the entire series was a dream.
Were Lost in Space and Forbidden Planet in the same continuity? I seem to remember Robbie the Robot turning up at some point, but I imagine I was very hungover when I saw it. Did he also appear in Colombo? 
Also adamant that Bionic woman and NuBSG were meant to be within the same continuity in an aborted narrative. The cylon cast, playing augmented humans while it was ambiguous as to Galactica's time frame? That was the plan, I think.
Also adamant that Bionic woman and NuBSG were meant to be within the same continuity in an aborted narrative. The cylon cast, playing augmented humans while it was ambiguous as to Galactica's time frame? That was the plan, I think.
Were Lost in Space and Forbidden Planet in the same continuity? I seem to remember Robbie the Robot turning up at some point, but I imagine I was very hungover when I saw it. Did he also appear in Colombo?
Also adamant that Bionic woman and NuBSG were meant to be within the same continuity in an aborted narrative. The cylon cast, playing augmented humans while it was ambiguous as to Galactica's time frame? That was the plan, I think.
The robot model for Robbie the Robot appeared in Lost in Space, but I'm not sure it was identified as Robbie. Even so, that doesn't mean they couldn't be in the same universe. They could simply be two separate robots, but of the same make and model.
Star Wars could probably coexist with other franchises in the same universe because it's a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. So it's billions of years and parsecs removed from any other universe, the only reason they couldn't coexist is direct contradictions in physics. The force could exist in almost any scifi universe, just nobody has figured it out or has the knack.
Hell, in Trek all telepathy could be the force and they just don't call it that.
Hell, in Trek all telepathy could be the force and they just don't call it that.
Trek telepathy and the Force don't really have much in common, though. Jedi have lots of different force powers, including influencing weak minds, but I don't recall ever seeing them read minds at all. And I don't recall Trek telepaths ever doing anything other than read minds. Well, I suppose Gary Mitchell gained a somewhat force-like powerset after exposure to some space phenomenon. But is there precedent for latent/untrained Jedi suddenly gaining full control of their power due to a weird space encounter?
Rey hasn't done anything yet other than Lightsaber fighting, telekinesis and influence. And she's hardly been perfect at any of those, either.
