Spam Me With Your Favourite Daniel Quotes Thursday!

Bounce over to pepper_field and contribute your own favorite Daniel lines at her Spam Me With Your Favourite Daniel Quotes Thursday post!

Because really, you can never have too much Daniel. :)

ETA: And hey, feel free to post Daniel lines here, too! I promise not to mind. Really.

Canon vs. Fanon, part 15: Daniel's glasses

(Hah, Aurora! Told you I'd get this done by the end of January! Just squeaking in, mind you, but it still qualifies!)

 

Welcome to the next edition of Canon vs. Fanon! There are a lot of recent newcomers to my flist, and you're all most welcome. I hope you'll drop a comment to say hello, and please feel free to agree or disagree with what you read here - as far as I'm concerned, the discussions that evolve in the comments are much more interesting than the posts themselves. :) If you're new to this series, you can search the canon vs fanon tags or follow the links in the LJ Index to find the earlier sections.

 

 

Originally, this entire essay was supposed to be only a section within a larger post. But it turned out to be longer than expected - what else is new? - so Daniel's glasses get a Canon vs. Fanon post of their own.

 

Here we go, then: How nearsighted is Daniel? And how often are his glasses a victim of circumstance?

 

Quick recap: Canon is defined as anything directly shown during Stargate: The Movie or episodes of the show; show supersedes movie when there's a contradiction. (I've sort of run out of examples of contradictions by now, sorry!) Fanon is defined as widely-accepted concepts that appear in fanfic, but do not have any real basis in canon. The purpose of these posts is not to mock or denigrate the writers who use fanon, but to point out what is fanon; after all, it's often hard to tell!

 

We begin with the most common fanon tropes, compare them to the reality of canon, and arrive at a (hopefully unbiased) conclusion on how much fanon has drifted from the actual show.

( Daniel's nearsightedness )

 

( Broken or lost glasses )

( Should wear them, but doesn't )

 

( Glasses damage totals )

 

( Personal fanon opinion )

 

"Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?"