Yes, but I'm not talking about bunnies spawned by episodes (missing scenes, post episode fics, whatever you choose to call them) so much as how the knowledge of canon, as it progresses, affects both what you write and the way you write. Which is why I used 'my' characterisation of Daniel as an example ::g:: For example, if you know Daniel is ascending, and you've seen Meridian, will your stories, even if they're set pre-Meridian, be influenced. If you're writing slash, for example, do you write with the idea in the back of your mind that there can't be a 'happy ever after' or do you ignore Meridian and Daniel's ascension, and separation from Jack, entirely?
In terms of canon, I'd tend to do the later, treating that as 'something that hasn't happened in my universe and maybe never will'. However, in terms of characterisation, I can't ignore the effect that Sha're's death had on Daniel's character, or the losses that he and the rest of the team have suffered which has made them darker in tone. I simply can't get my head around the optimistic Daniel of Season 1, the one who hopes to find Sha're, that once he finds her everything will be okay. To my mind his personality is always coloured by the fact that he can't save her, or at least that the odds are heavily stacked against them, knowledge which I think he has even by the end of Season 2.
Does that make sense?
However, I am intrigued by the idea that later canon can influence how you perceive an earlier episode on reviewing. The most obvious example I can think of this in Stargate slash is how the events of Divide and Conquer as written by the staff writers were supposed to change the slant of events in Upgrades, an earlier episode of the same season. But of course there are a lot of other answers - do you see the Tok'ra differently on watching The Tok'ra now that you know they can't be trusted, and later episodes have revealed their agendas?
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Date: 2002-10-03 09:11 am (UTC)In terms of canon, I'd tend to do the later, treating that as 'something that hasn't happened in my universe and maybe never will'. However, in terms of characterisation, I can't ignore the effect that Sha're's death had on Daniel's character, or the losses that he and the rest of the team have suffered which has made them darker in tone. I simply can't get my head around the optimistic Daniel of Season 1, the one who hopes to find Sha're, that once he finds her everything will be okay. To my mind his personality is always coloured by the fact that he can't save her, or at least that the odds are heavily stacked against them, knowledge which I think he has even by the end of Season 2.
Does that make sense?
However, I am intrigued by the idea that later canon can influence how you perceive an earlier episode on reviewing. The most obvious example I can think of this in Stargate slash is how the events of Divide and Conquer as written by the staff writers were supposed to change the slant of events in Upgrades, an earlier episode of the same season. But of course there are a lot of other answers - do you see the Tok'ra differently on watching The Tok'ra now that you know they can't be trusted, and later episodes have revealed their agendas?
It's all fascinating stuff ::g::