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

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

No you're right. They did say that they agreed Sam would only say that to get a rise out of Lee.

(Of course...what RDM intended was probably that she was a slut. He cast a lot of negative aspersions about women's sexuality around for all his claims of gender equality. All that stuff about how Adama could smell Ellen. UGH.)

[innibis.livejournal.com]

I'm with you that RDM intended us to think she was a slut. He was seriously terrible about the Madonna/Whore stuff.

[lapsedprof.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes, agreed. So disappointing!

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention what they did to Cally just to retcon that Nicky wasn't a hybrid. Or how they pimped Tory out and then had her crying during sex. So much gender!fail...

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

So. Much.