Intermission - Library of Canon

[kriadydragon]

It is done.

Stargate Library of Canon is now open for business. Please read the user info and feel free to post any story that fits the criteria, as well as ask any questions you may have.

Comments

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

i joined i hope thats okay

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Okay? That's awesome! My first victim... er... member, yeah.

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

hurray i'm number one! COOL ! :D ((hugs))

i'll check it out proper tomorrow :D

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

okay i have a question

i read the rules and you want it to be close to canon

what about alternate takes... for instance i'm writing a story that is what i would have liked the return 2 to be

is that okay?... its not done so i won't post it anyways lol but i was just curious

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... that is a good question. A very good question. I want to say yes but I think I'm going to have to say no as it might stir up controversy. Alternate endings to an actual episode are still AUs. Tags not so much since they're just filling in the blanks.

I don't know. I may have to do some kind of poll and see what others think, which may take some time to accumulate enough opinions to decide.

In fact I think I'll post the question now to give it enough time to gather enough feedback.

[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

I've posted my thoughts on the poll post on the comm but wanted to reply here in response to the specific example given... my thoughts would be that re-writing what happened in an episode is, by definition, not canon. If we are talking about re-writing the events of an episode and changing what happens (as opposed to writing missing scenes or tags or adding to/expanding upon the events of an ep) then it's not canon.

To use my A World of Hurt series again as an example, I technically change what happened in the episode in that I add a whole lot more whump into it BUT they are written more as extra scenes that fit between the scenes we see in the episode, or that give further detail on the scenes we see in the episode, and they in no way contradict or change the events seen in the episode - in fact thet are written specifically to agree with the canon events of the ep.

Rewriting an episode how you would like to have seen it would seem to imply changes things that happened in the ep (whether that be the events that took place, the way the characters behaved, what people said, what the results were etc) would be definition not be canon.

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

heheh well its okay i mean i was just curious its no big deal :)