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

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I tend to believe the whole thing wit Gianne happened shorlty before the mini because, no matter how many daddy issues Lee might have had ( and he sure had them ), I can't see him simply dumping a pregnant girlfriend like that. I can picture him not wanting to be a father, even suggesting that she get an abortion, but leaving her ,abandoning his child and just moving on with his life... In my mind he values duty and responsibility too much for that to happen. Maybe he wouldn't have continued with the relationship but he wouldn't avoid responsibility if she actually had the baby. So, I believe it must have happened right before the attacks and that he would have looked for her and reached some kind of an agreement about they would do about the child.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree with this. I think the "abandonment" was probably more of -- "whoa, I need to take a step back from this situation" and not so much "See ya!"

I also think that Gianne was a Kara substitue, but that's just my pet theory. : )

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

THIS. Gianne had to be just before the mini (and thus after meeting Kara, and after Zak's death too).

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

I want to say that's actually supported in Canon. Or at least in show-writer approved documentation/an interview that Jamie gave. 'Cause I agree with you. I believe tons of guilt for not talking to Gianne and making it right. But I also think circumstances (like nuclear holocaust) intervened and took the choice out of his hands. Possibly because he over-thinks things. But still. If the worlds hadn't ended, well a lot of things would have been different, but pertinent to this discussion, I think Lee would have been at least involved in his child's life.

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

That is normally what I think but sometime fanon and canon confuse me. I agree that knowing what Lee's childhood was like, he would never abandon his responsibility to his child. And as you said, he may have just been shell shocked by the news and ran from that rather than running from Gianne and the baby.