It's very odd, but while contracting canon bothers me, contradicting reality...doesn't. I already have the stargate universe set as an AU in my mind, so as long as the rules of that universe aren't violated, I tend not to notice. Example: The navy helicopters don't bother me as I write that off as one of the rules of the stargate universe, that air force guys can fly those planes as well. Which means that something like Afghanistan doesn't bother me, as obviously, the stargate universe's military history is different from ours, so it's possible that that could have happened. Nothing excludes it, and canon makes it clear that it's different, so I just go with how the author sets it up. It doesn't violate stargate canon, so that works for me.
I do appreciate it when authors work to reconcile reality and stargate universe stuff, as I don't expect them to do that. It's extra credit to me, and they get props for working it.
Extending those thoughts, something like 'eating donuts' doesn't bother as I just mentally assign it to the 'they have a flour-like substance, and an oil-like substance, and a sugar-like thing, and they make something that are like donuts' without the author having to tell me all the details behind it; I am happy to take the short cut.
(And I am growing tired of all the something-like stuff that shows up in fanfic. Mentally, the expedition would just call it 'butter' if that's what they used it for, even if it came from a 3-legged sloth-like thing. They'd stop using the long versions within a few months, and then when the daedelus arrived, everything would taste weird and wrong. It's like baking powder in the US is different from baking powder in the UK, but both are called baking powder and they do approximately the same sort of thing. It's still called baking powder no matter where it comes from, and donuts would be approximately the same thing. Only blue and tasting ever-so-slightly of fish.)
So I guess I'm saying that only direct violations of canon bother me, and it has to be something easy, like Lorne and Ford together.
And I'll forgive almost anything for good pacing and clever banter.
Contradicting Reality
I do appreciate it when authors work to reconcile reality and stargate universe stuff, as I don't expect them to do that. It's extra credit to me, and they get props for working it.
Extending those thoughts, something like 'eating donuts' doesn't bother as I just mentally assign it to the 'they have a flour-like substance, and an oil-like substance, and a sugar-like thing, and they make something that are like donuts' without the author having to tell me all the details behind it; I am happy to take the short cut.
(And I am growing tired of all the something-like stuff that shows up in fanfic. Mentally, the expedition would just call it 'butter' if that's what they used it for, even if it came from a 3-legged sloth-like thing. They'd stop using the long versions within a few months, and then when the daedelus arrived, everything would taste weird and wrong. It's like baking powder in the US is different from baking powder in the UK, but both are called baking powder and they do approximately the same sort of thing. It's still called baking powder no matter where it comes from, and donuts would be approximately the same thing. Only blue and tasting ever-so-slightly of fish.)
So I guess I'm saying that only direct violations of canon bother me, and it has to be something easy, like Lorne and Ford together.
And I'll forgive almost anything for good pacing and clever banter.