DPP: Canon v. Fanon

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Canon \ˈka-nən\-- n.  The authentic works of a writer; a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works.

Fanon \ˈfa-nən\-- n.  A term used in fanfiction to describe commonly accepted ideas among authors even if they are not actually expressed in the canon work.

So today I'm curious about fanon.  Is it supported by the source material?  How the hell did we come up with it?  Does it enrich our experience of the text and other stories?  Help or hindrance?

YOUR MISSION:
A.  Help me come up with a list of commonly accepted fanon ideas in the K/l-verse.  Here's a few to get us started:

1.  Kara and Lee are like the best pilots ever OMG.
2.  Lee and Zak's family had money.
3.  Zak was brilliant in another area other then vipers, such a raptor piloting or communications.
4.  Kara was a high-school pyramid champion.
5.  Starbuck and Apollo and famous throughout the Academy, and later after the show starts, throughout the Fleet.
6.  That there is such a thing as a D-CAG (deputy CAG).

I'm sure I've left out a bunch-- that's where I need your help.

B.  Discuss.  Are these ideas supported/not supported by canon?  How does it enrich the development of the characters as you see them?


Good luck.  : )

Comments

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO ICON!!!!! *snort*

I like to think that conversation went something like:
RDM: "OH SHIT Y'ALL I FORGOT A CYLON!!!!!"
EICK: LOL WUT
RDM: IKR
EICK: WTF SHOULD WE DO NOW
*radio plays Elton John's "Daniel"*
RDM: THX ELTON

Idk, idk.

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Ha, I love the RDM/Eick conversation above, Erin! And agreed, #3 was completely made of WTF-ness.

Although...I would have preferred Kara be some sort of hybrid rather than an angel I suppose.

Sometimes I wish 4.5 just didn't exist.

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Kara being the original hybrid made way more sense than the other crap they threw at us-- it explained her connection to Hera, it explained why her father seemed to have peaced-out and left her with her mother (since Cavil really seemed to have it out for Daniel, it makes more sense for him to either leave to protect Kara or leave because Cavil offed him), it dovetailed quite nicely with Ellen's description of Daniel as artistic since we already knew Kara's dad was a pianist, it explained Kara's total OMG WTF BBQ face when Sam starts talking about Daniel... et cetera.

Sigh. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.