Poll Day - Is it Canon or Fanon?

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

The last Thursday of each month is Poll Day.  Let's talk about canon.

[Poll #1899268]

Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

There are all little elements in a story that can be canon-based, but are so subtle that we don't realize it. Such as the conversations between the two, what we call banter. The routine of them walking into del Floria and the tinkle of the brass bell is canon. Giving a quick description of the grey walls of headquarters. So many little things that are canon, but are just taken for granted and I think, are not really thought of as canon. As Glenna said all these little things ring true of the TV series. The boys themselves are canon, if they're written true to characters, and even if it's in an AU story.

[carabele.livejournal.com]

Yes, all those little elements you mentioned are canon, and that's what I meant with the references being small and subtle.

But real AU, where the guys are something other than U.N.C.L.E. agents and never were U.N.C.L.E. agents and there is really no supposed accepted premonition of U.N.C.L.E in their future (as in childhood stories), doesn't work for me as MFU fiction. It's fiction, and it might be enjoyable, but it just isn't MFU.

Like I said, I'm a traditionalist. [chuckle]

[carabele.livejournal.com]

And not sure that was clear by I meant that the "accepted premonition of U.N.C.L.E. in their future": such IS indeed part of childhood stories (even if not referenced directly, the precursing is always there in some form), which is why they can work for me.