Just like for Stargate, my "canon" stops at the end of the sixth season - the rest of the show just ain't there, except as a weird abberation. However, that doesn't mean that what Bridge has done isn't true - as you would agree. And so I parted ways.
I never feel that I *own* someone else's characters. They aren't *mine* to *own*, except in my own personal revisionism, if I care to tailor it to my own viewpoint of where characters/story should go.
Let's say I didn't like that Gandalf went across to the West at the end of Lord of the Rings. Well, he still bloody well did, no matter what my personal preference for the story was. I don't like Aragorn's background story, as stated in The Silmarillion? Too bad, Tolkein wrote it down, he had Aragorn's history clearly in mind when he wrote the main book, and that is his story. Tolkien's vision of who Aragorn was directly fed into his portrayal of the character, his morals, his motivations and his nobility (and his stiffness, but let's not talk about that!).
In other words, just because Rowling (or Tolkien) have a backstory that isn't fully uncovered, doesn't mean it's not there.
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Date: 2007-10-31 04:46 pm (UTC)Just like for Stargate, my "canon" stops at the end of the sixth season - the rest of the show just ain't there, except as a weird abberation. However, that doesn't mean that what Bridge has done isn't true - as you would agree. And so I parted ways.
I never feel that I *own* someone else's characters. They aren't *mine* to *own*, except in my own personal revisionism, if I care to tailor it to my own viewpoint of where characters/story should go.
Let's say I didn't like that Gandalf went across to the West at the end of Lord of the Rings. Well, he still bloody well did, no matter what my personal preference for the story was. I don't like Aragorn's background story, as stated in The Silmarillion? Too bad, Tolkein wrote it down, he had Aragorn's history clearly in mind when he wrote the main book, and that is his story. Tolkien's vision of who Aragorn was directly fed into his portrayal of the character, his morals, his motivations and his nobility (and his stiffness, but let's not talk about that!).
In other words, just because Rowling (or Tolkien) have a backstory that isn't fully uncovered, doesn't mean it's not there.