To explain a little: I believe that in a case where you can know all of the canon relatively easily (ie: four seasons of a television show, five books of a series) one should know the canon completely. If there's a finite amount of information to absorb, y'know. get to know it.
If there is what amounts to infinite canon (ie: comic books - fifty years of issues wherein each year contradicts the last! - or RPS, in which it is possible to know many things about an actor or pop group but [at least in my experience] quite difficult to know *everything*, because they give interviews every freakin' day), then canon is something to experience, but less, how to put it. Less integral? integral. whatever.
no more babble. I think if you can list all the things you need to know, then it's a good idea to know them. if you can't, then there's so much information that it's nearly impossible anyway.
I pretty much totally agree with what you've said here. On the other hand, though, that's actually probably exactly why I'll never write comics fic or RPS -- as a writer, I can't really handle not being able to absorb all the information like that.
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7/8/04 20:33 (UTC)If there is what amounts to infinite canon (ie: comic books - fifty years of issues wherein each year contradicts the last! - or RPS, in which it is possible to know many things about an actor or pop group but [at least in my experience] quite difficult to know *everything*, because they give interviews every freakin' day), then canon is something to experience, but less, how to put it. Less integral? integral. whatever.
no more babble. I think if you can list all the things you need to know, then it's a good idea to know them. if you can't, then there's so much information that it's nearly impossible anyway.
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7/8/04 22:38 (UTC)