Characters who were written off in season 1 showing up in season 2 bugs. But a lot of other things I won’t even notice unless I’ve been watching the source material lately. Some things I notice only because I’ve read them on someone else’s pet peeve list. (I.e., someone on my flist posted a little while ago about how McKay’s piano teacher is identified as a guy in Redemption, and I made a note to myself of, "Don’t forget that!" and now I’ll notice when the teacher is referenced as female. Or the spelling of Kavanagh.)
For the things I do notice, it doesn’t usually stop me from reading the story. At least, ones of the sort you mention above wouldn’t bug me. (I probably wouldn’t even notice the donuts thing, not least because I’ve read the "faux-donuts" conversation in enough other stories that I can fill it in myself.)
I know as a writer I worry about making that sort of mistake--because I’ll fact check the things I *know* I don’t know, but sometimes it doesn’t occur to me to check because something’s In My Head as a Fact I’m Of Which I’m Convinced. Like, I would double check Stackhouse’s rank before I used him in a story, because I’m not 100% sure of it. But it wouldn’t occur to me to confirm that Ford’s a lieutenant. So I don’t necessarily read that sort of mistake as lack of care/willingness to check/sloppiness, but as the experience where something enters your brain as undisputed fact, just, it’s wrong.
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Characters who were written off in season 1 showing up in season 2 bugs. But a lot of other things I won’t even notice unless I’ve been watching the source material lately. Some things I notice only because I’ve read them on someone else’s pet peeve list. (I.e., someone on my flist posted a little while ago about how McKay’s piano teacher is identified as a guy in Redemption, and I made a note to myself of, "Don’t forget that!" and now I’ll notice when the teacher is referenced as female. Or the spelling of Kavanagh.)
For the things I do notice, it doesn’t usually stop me from reading the story. At least, ones of the sort you mention above wouldn’t bug me. (I probably wouldn’t even notice the donuts thing, not least because I’ve read the "faux-donuts" conversation in enough other stories that I can fill it in myself.)
I know as a writer I worry about making that sort of mistake--because I’ll fact check the things I *know* I don’t know, but sometimes it doesn’t occur to me to check because something’s In My Head as a Fact I’m Of Which I’m Convinced. Like, I would double check Stackhouse’s rank before I used him in a story, because I’m not 100% sure of it. But it wouldn’t occur to me to confirm that Ford’s a lieutenant. So I don’t necessarily read that sort of mistake as lack of care/willingness to check/sloppiness, but as the experience where something enters your brain as undisputed fact, just, it’s wrong.