The easiest way for me to conceptualize canon and fanon is simply: canon is the way I interpret the original source; fanon is everyone else's interpretation. XD
hee, ain't that the truth? ^_^
there's a huge continuum there, but you've describes well the polar ends of it. there's a certain minimal involvement that defines a fan, but there's a world of difference between someone who watches a show once a week to someone who devotes so much energy and time and thought to something. it ends up being a total different experience, so it's easy to think (for the fan, anyway) that one is a "true fan" or something, but, well. you get out of something what you put into it? obsession can change the source of the obsession for the obsessee?
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Date: 2008-04-05 11:12 am (UTC)hee, ain't that the truth? ^_^
there's a huge continuum there, but you've describes well the polar ends of it. there's a certain minimal involvement that defines a fan, but there's a world of difference between someone who watches a show once a week to someone who devotes so much energy and time and thought to something. it ends up being a total different experience, so it's easy to think (for the fan, anyway) that one is a "true fan" or something, but, well. you get out of something what you put into it? obsession can change the source of the obsession for the obsessee?
but yeah, interesting thoughts...