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]

I don't think she mentions Zak. She was just talking about Kara's relationship with Helo in that scene.

(Unless you mean it's weird that Sharon/Athena would be able to say anything about Zak--like she does in UB--or any of Kara's history simply because she wasn't Boomer. But she has Boomer's memories supposedly right? Isn't that how she knows/remembers chief on Kobol?)

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Unless you mean it's weird that Sharon/Athena would be able to say anything about Zak--like she does in UB--or any of Kara's history simply because she wasn't Boomer.
Yes, I'm talking about the added scenes in UB-EX. See, I just don't think that even Boomer talked Zak with Kara. I felt Kara has such private shame and guilt about how he died it just seemed weird that she and Athena (or Boomer) would discuss it. And it really seemed weird in UB-EX because I didn't really think Kara and Athena had talks like that before I saw that scene. With Helo? Sure. with Athena in my view? No.

[christ-chexx-4u.livejournal.com]

i definitely agree - i never saw kara and boomer as being particularly close, especially since as far as we know they didnt know each other until they served on galactica together, which was after zak died. and i think it took some time before kara would have gotten over her grief and been able to return to the fun-loving, rambunctious starbuck we all fell in love with in the mini. and there was also that comment that sharon makes, when kara is interrogating her in the brig, about how they were as close as sisters. i was sitting there going 'huh? sisters? havent you guys had like three seconds of shared screentime?'