1. If you consider canon as a term, very little of what makes a show is in fact genuine factual canon. The idea of shows is that people don't all get the same thing from them due to reliance on subtext - the idea of inferring something where people can run with it however they choose. To me, canon is the pure fact - what was done, what was said, etc - that is presented on the screen in the show and nothing more. JoMo's intentions for subtext are neither here nor there in canon - they are just a perception of how something should have been and what was envisioned by the production. That opinion is no more or less valid than the next persons. Interpretive Canon (or Personal Canon if you wish) is where people take dialogue or actions and make of it what they want. While the actions and dialogue are fact, how a person perceives it is not.
No matter how large the group that yells that 'x is canon', unless x is based on fact as opposed to subtext it is still 'interpretive canon' - a divergence in the opinion of what canon is based on a difference of perception.
2. Balkanization, or in SGA's fandom, Guerilla Warfare, is a big problem of fandom and leads to too much entitlement for people to scream about what/who is right and what/who is wrong. The fact that people argue over this in something which they fail to see as a matter of interpretation irks me.
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No matter how large the group that yells that 'x is canon', unless x is based on fact as opposed to subtext it is still 'interpretive canon' - a divergence in the opinion of what canon is based on a difference of perception.
2. Balkanization, or in SGA's fandom, Guerilla Warfare, is a big problem of fandom and leads to too much entitlement for people to scream about what/who is right and what/who is wrong. The fact that people argue over this in something which they fail to see as a matter of interpretation irks me.