In stories that are meant to be AU only in the way that "They are on Atlantis and all that is being changed in the events in an episode," I hate deviations from canon. They are distracting, as I notice the problems in the story, and irritating, as I get annoyed that the author didn't notice the problem or didn't care to keep things similar to the actual episode due to either laziness or their own random whims.
Well, like a few people here have said, it depends. If I were reading a story and they wrote Bates as an LT without any discernable reason as to why, I would immediately drop out of the story in disgust. Actually, if there even was a reason for it, but the character could have potentially been any LT, I would still feel the need to stop reading.
However, as I don't usually watch an episode before reading episode-related fic, things like 'running out of coffee' would not really register on my radar. It's one of those little details that might prove irritating if I was aware, but nothing worth hitting the backspace over.
With donuts? Well, it depends. A few people mentioned their distaste for the 'Sort-of-food' type talk, but I actually appreciate it. Not only does it give us insight to what they're eating, but it also reinforces the fact that they're using completely foreign foods to supplement what they do have. So if the donuts were presented as donuts, with some sort of mention to the slightly different taste due to using ground ______ instead of flour, I would say rock on. When it's just, "mm, donuts, move on to the next part," that could potentially be jarring. It may, or may not, depending on the severity of the oops, be bad enough for me to leave from that kind of thing.
For the most part, it's usually just character-related things that are established and completely disregarded without any reason that really throw me off.
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Date: 2006-07-11 05:55 pm (UTC)Well, like a few people here have said, it depends. If I were reading a story and they wrote Bates as an LT without any discernable reason as to why, I would immediately drop out of the story in disgust. Actually, if there even was a reason for it, but the character could have potentially been any LT, I would still feel the need to stop reading.
However, as I don't usually watch an episode before reading episode-related fic, things like 'running out of coffee' would not really register on my radar. It's one of those little details that might prove irritating if I was aware, but nothing worth hitting the backspace over.
With donuts? Well, it depends. A few people mentioned their distaste for the 'Sort-of-food' type talk, but I actually appreciate it. Not only does it give us insight to what they're eating, but it also reinforces the fact that they're using completely foreign foods to supplement what they do have. So if the donuts were presented as donuts, with some sort of mention to the slightly different taste due to using ground ______ instead of flour, I would say rock on. When it's just, "mm, donuts, move on to the next part," that could potentially be jarring. It may, or may not, depending on the severity of the oops, be bad enough for me to leave from that kind of thing.
For the most part, it's usually just character-related things that are established and completely disregarded without any reason that really throw me off.