Subject: Re: Fandom Pet Peeves
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Posted on: 2012-07-25 23:07:00 UTC

This one crops in a lot of my favorite fandoms. Bad Medicine (and not the Bon Jovi kind). NCIS: Ducky is not going to see someone in urgent need of emergency medical care and decide to treat them at Gibbs' house because they, in an lowered state of consciousness, say they don't like hospitals!

Stargate Atlantis: Carson Beckett is not an idiot! He's not going to miss the fact that someone is starving to death in front of him, and Sheppard is NOT anorexic! The guy has a slim build. That doesn't mean he doesn't eat. Him being somewhat of a self-sacrificing idiot when it comes to his own health is a kind of justified by canon, but only in extreme cases of danger to others--not because he just doesn't like doctors.

Stargate SG-1: I know there isn't that much fanfic out there that involves Jonas, but there are some horribly bad, nearly universal trends in what does exist. Firstly, Jack's character gets run through the moral shredder in these fics. Yeah, he didn't really like Jonas, especially at first. He didn't trust him because Jonas had switched sides, and he was pissed that Daniel died because Jonas was too scared to go in the room full of deadly radiation. This does not translate to Jack attempting to murder Jonas, Jack beating Jonas up, Jack knowing about other Random Military Types hazing or otherwise hurting Jonas, and it especially doesn't mean that Jack is going to do something sexual to Jonas. I mean, these authors really don't seem to get it that not only are they destroying all canon characteristics of Jonas, they are also destroying Jack's character.

Then you've got Daniel. He's not an uke. He's not a wimp. He's not girly. He most definitely does not walk around crying every five minutes. If anything the guy should be a ticking time bomb for going postal, because the canon puts him through enough stuff to make ten people go off the deep-end, and he rarely expresses any of it. He does occasionally, but even then it is almost always a direct "Aliens Made Them Do It" case where something was influencing his behavior.

Psych: Canon!Henry is frequently obnoxious, and anyone that raises their kid like that is at least a bit twisted, but he's not a mindless screaming machine. The things he gripes about on the show make sense, at least under Henry Spencer logic, and they should therefore make sense in fanfic. He doesn't just come up with completely random stuff. It has a theme every time (and usually an underlying, "I want to see my kid, but can't just tell him I want to see him, and therefore must make an excuse of wanting the garage cleaned out." or "My kid is terrifying me that he is going to get himself hurt or killed, and I am going to yell at him because of my terror.")

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