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You can't go home again
When first returning home after inadvertently being stranded on another galaxy, I think we've all learned two important lessons:
1) Earth is not real. (Aliens, man. Always play with their minds.)
2) The hot alien space babe you brought with you? Totally is.
EDIT: Corollary 2a) The hot alien space babe likes beer.
Also, as annoying as having a fic Jossed can be, the opposite also holds true. It's always interesting when, instead of being contradicted by canon, a fic (or fic idea) can be so specifically supported by it that it renders the fic essentially useless. Like when, in season three of SGA, everything I was trying to do with As I Say was pretty much summed up in one line by John: "But then I would be the man, and who would I rage against?" On one hand, it's gratifying to know that my take on the character was spot on; that, two years before he comes to that revelation, I got it, and I got him. But on the other ... had I seen that episode at the time, I may never have written the fic, because what would be the point? Or like when I planned to write a Gilmore Girls fic where Luke helps Lorelai pick out the jeep when she first buys it - and then I watched It's Just Like Riding A Bike, where he does exactly that, only eight years later. My Luke-and-Lorelai picking out a car fic became totally canon, and I was left with nothing to write. So. Interesting, and definitely satisfying to know that you've got a great handle on the show/character, but a drawback to writing in open canons that isn't often explored.
1) Earth is not real. (Aliens, man. Always play with their minds.)
2) The hot alien space babe you brought with you? Totally is.
EDIT: Corollary 2a) The hot alien space babe likes beer.
Also, as annoying as having a fic Jossed can be, the opposite also holds true. It's always interesting when, instead of being contradicted by canon, a fic (or fic idea) can be so specifically supported by it that it renders the fic essentially useless. Like when, in season three of SGA, everything I was trying to do with As I Say was pretty much summed up in one line by John: "But then I would be the man, and who would I rage against?" On one hand, it's gratifying to know that my take on the character was spot on; that, two years before he comes to that revelation, I got it, and I got him. But on the other ... had I seen that episode at the time, I may never have written the fic, because what would be the point? Or like when I planned to write a Gilmore Girls fic where Luke helps Lorelai pick out the jeep when she first buys it - and then I watched It's Just Like Riding A Bike, where he does exactly that, only eight years later. My Luke-and-Lorelai picking out a car fic became totally canon, and I was left with nothing to write. So. Interesting, and definitely satisfying to know that you've got a great handle on the show/character, but a drawback to writing in open canons that isn't often explored.