The Sentinel For Fanfic Writers

I've read a few MCU/Sentinel crossovers recently that gave the impression that the author had never watched an episode of The Sentinel in their life. Which is kinda sad. There's two things that attracted fans to the show: the buddy cop vibe, and the worldbuilding. Lots of fan writers took the worldbuilding and ran with it, sometimes very far away. One of the most influential worldbuilding-extensions was the "GDP" series by Susan Foster. More on that later. The Sentinel has been described as "the little black dress" of fandom, because if you just take the worldbuilding aspect of it, you can cross it over with practically anything. And it seems that people are writing crossovers based on the fanfic they've read, rather than the actual series.

So I'm going to do an introduction to the Sentinel worldbuilding, what is canon, what is fanon, and possibly what is in-between.

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