DPP: Fanon Complaints

[cynicalshadows.livejournal.com]

Special destinies. Poofs. Pigeons. Almost table fraks. We all have things that we don't like about canon. But what about fanon? Do you not like when Starbuck is characterized as an easy lay? Do you hate stick-up-his-ass!Lee? Do pilot babies make you cringe? Here's your chance to complain about the things in fic that bug you.

Comments

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

I would say my L/K fanon pet peeve is character bashing Dee. Fics where she is portrayed as a social climber or scheming to steal Lee away from Kara really turn me off. Mainly because that kind of thing in general turns me off - there really is no need to make the romantic rival into a 2 dimensional villain in order to make the hero/ine look good! Sam gets it a bit too but nowhere near as much - this tends to annoy me as such a gender double standard!

What else... nope, that's the only big peeve. I have a smallish one and that's that I get bored with fanon assumptions that show up in *every* fic. Like Lee being Zak's surrogate dad. Yes we know that Bill was a lousy father and absent much of the time, but I don't see any evidence that Lee is more than a year or two older than Zak. And I don't see any kid "practically raising" a sibling who is only a year or two younger. I buy protective older brother yes, but not surrogate Dad.

Right-o, I'll clean up for the next person, shall I?

[kag523.livejournal.com]

That's so true. Again - hadn't really thought of it (though I've only been involved in fanfic for a few months) but that DOES occur in an absurdly high percentage of them. Hmmm... wonder why writers do that.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I think because a lot of people hated, hated, hated the idea of Lee with anyone other than Kara and writing fic in which Dee is a monster is a way to deal with the anger. That's just my opinion ...

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I really don't like the Dee bashing either. I don't like what the writers did to Dee in canon in general, but I always had a healthy respect for her and her choices. She tell Lee that she knows she's second choice, but is thinking it's the end of the worlds and she's going to find herself some happy for as long as she can. I don't understand how that translates to her being a social climber.

There's a lot of fic out there that portrays Sam as an idiot, which I don't like either. Kara would've never fallen for someone who is that clueless, IMO.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of fic out there that portrays Sam as an idiot, which I don't like either. Kara would've never fallen for someone who is that clueless, IMO. Yeah, this.