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

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

My impression from the mini is that they knew each other really, really well, and that both of them had feelings for each other (well, I do believe they were (very) repressedly in love already). I'd even go that far to say that Kara was aware of her feelings for Lee --the folded pic, hello?--, and Lee spent the whole S1 in denial mode. So in the canon in my head, after the table mess they decided not to bring out the issue never again and, even though it might have been really awkward at first, they ended up falling into an easy camaraderie and eventually became real friends.

(and I am loving the idea that they had actually met before the flashbacks. As you were (very wisely) pointing out, if they fanwanked and retconned everything, why can't we? :D)

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

I'd even go that far to say that Kara was aware of her feelings for Lee --the folded pic, hello?--, and Lee spent the whole S1 in denial mode.
The folded pic is a serious hello. Pining! I don't know how conscious she was because Leegasm really woke her up. But she privately unfolded that part of the picture at times. Lee was special to her even if she didn't know how much. They all totes hung out. :-)

As you were (very wisely) pointing out, if they fanwanked and retconned everything, why can't we? :D)
Exactly. :-) I actually like fanon. We can make a whole world for these kids and some fanwanking and fanfic is much better executed than some of the actual show writing. I say we get to keep it. :-)