Follow-up poll to the below...please answer if you can.

[shadowkat]

[Poll #976647]

Comments

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

See? Canon is important, if only as an established foundation from which you can then deviate, as long as it's done convincingly for the reader.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Scrollgirl already more or less convinced me with her post above.

It's not unlike well any story really - if you don't buy something the writer is telling you, you will jump ship. That's why writers have to fact check - readers can be so annoying...;-)