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]

I wasn't referring to that sort of AU, where they're other than UNCLE agents, I should have qualified that. I think AU stories that stay within the parameters of UNCLE, and show them still being agents bur have girlfriends/wives is acceptable as long as they're built around some canon.

Childhood stories set the backdrop for the future UNCLE agents, and in my Illya backstories I address how Illya's future habits (canon) habits originated, showing how he becomes the Illya working for UNCLE.

Let's face it the guys can only save the world so many times, and if one stays with only that concept, then the fandom could potentially become stale. Not that i don't love them saving the world....:D

Character background is important to me and part of the character growth. They're agents all the time, but they do have a personal life and a past. That fleshes them out. Otherwise they have the potential to be stereotypical and flat, or perhaps the word :"formulaic," says it better.

[carabele.livejournal.com]

So what you are saying is, just as I and Glenna have, that it is not MFU fanfic without a canon element. [grin]

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

MFU stories, yes, AU stories yes. Backstories can't really always involve canon as they take place in the past, but somehow if they can hint at future canon, that's a good thing. I feel they're a legitimate off shoots within UNCLE fanfic.