For the most part I'm not bothered - to read any sizeable amount of fanfic at all I just prepare myself to gloss over the little niggly things. (I was a lot more forgiving when I was reading fic mostly on ff.net last year.) If there are major characterisation problems or spelling/grammar niggles that even I can spot (and I am rubbish at spelling/grammar) then I will stop reading. For the most part though I'll just take what I can get in the way of fic that hits the right spots for me.
My merry ignoring of non-canonical things negatvely impacts on pretty much any attempt I make at writing fic because canon isn't the first thing on my mind (characterisation is what I fret over 99% of the time and what I'm most aware of). Quite frequently I'm left me at the end of an evening of hard work with 4000 words of absolute rubbish because I totally forgot about a major canon element. Last night it was the Life Signs Detector, why oh why do they have it?! It's so much harder to be taken by surprise with a Life Signs Detector, and any attempt to work around that major plot error makes the characters look sloppy and careless in their actions.
I generally give lots of lee-way on the real world elements of Stargate as under scrutiny in the context of the real world the military, science etc bits don't stand up to much scrutiny. And then I just think, well why should they, they have Stargates. As someone said previously I treat Stargate as AU as a baseline - that's not to say that when the Stargate world contradicts itself that it's not painful and weird, but I don't subject it to pretty much any level of scrutiny over the 'realism' of certain elements of the show.
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My merry ignoring of non-canonical things negatvely impacts on pretty much any attempt I make at writing fic because canon isn't the first thing on my mind (characterisation is what I fret over 99% of the time and what I'm most aware of). Quite frequently I'm left me at the end of an evening of hard work with 4000 words of absolute rubbish because I totally forgot about a major canon element. Last night it was the Life Signs Detector, why oh why do they have it?! It's so much harder to be taken by surprise with a Life Signs Detector, and any attempt to work around that major plot error makes the characters look sloppy and careless in their actions.
I generally give lots of lee-way on the real world elements of Stargate as under scrutiny in the context of the real world the military, science etc bits don't stand up to much scrutiny. And then I just think, well why should they, they have Stargates. As someone said previously I treat Stargate as AU as a baseline - that's not to say that when the Stargate world contradicts itself that it's not painful and weird, but I don't subject it to pretty much any level of scrutiny over the 'realism' of certain elements of the show.