I think it depends on my overload factor. Some days I'm willing to forgive if it's not too egregious, other days the slightest taint will cause me to hit the back button.
I think the examples you've mentioned would probably:
1. Bates. If I'm recalling my research correctly, if he's a sergeant, then he's NCO, and no way ever will he make LT. I could be wrong. If I'm given enough AU back story that he started out that way? Sure, I'll go for it, but random errors like this are definitely frowned on.
2. Coffee. Well, I probably wouldn't have remembered the reference where they were almost out of coffee, so it wouldn't ping me much. I generally fall on the side of they are out, not just coffee, but probably a whole hellalot of other things. It just didn't look like they brought that much stuff with them.
3. Donuts. Hhm. I couldn't say, WickedWords makes a good point in that they might have a donut like thing, but I would still think of it for story purposes as a donut-like-thing, to keep the reader grounded in the situation.
4. Totally wrong characters in the wrong place? Just confuse me, and then I wander around trying to figure what I've missed, do research, and then I would probably not finish.
But I'm more easily turned off by crossovers where I haven't see the show (but that's not a complete given), truly atrocious characterizations such as Emo!John. yeah we get that he's repressed, but he wouldn't go emo because of it--he's far more likely to really tuck it in and avoid thinking about it.
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Date: 2006-07-10 11:37 pm (UTC)I think the examples you've mentioned would probably:
1. Bates. If I'm recalling my research correctly, if he's a sergeant, then he's NCO, and no way ever will he make LT. I could be wrong. If I'm given enough AU back story that he started out that way? Sure, I'll go for it, but random errors like this are definitely frowned on.
2. Coffee. Well, I probably wouldn't have remembered the reference where they were almost out of coffee, so it wouldn't ping me much. I generally fall on the side of they are out, not just coffee, but probably a whole hellalot of other things. It just didn't look like they brought that much stuff with them.
3. Donuts. Hhm. I couldn't say, WickedWords makes a good point in that they might have a donut like thing, but I would still think of it for story purposes as a donut-like-thing, to keep the reader grounded in the situation.
4. Totally wrong characters in the wrong place? Just confuse me, and then I wander around trying to figure what I've missed, do research, and then I would probably not finish.
But I'm more easily turned off by crossovers where I haven't see the show (but that's not a complete given), truly atrocious characterizations such as Emo!John. yeah we get that he's repressed, but he wouldn't go emo because of it--he's far more likely to really tuck it in and avoid thinking about it.