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[doyle]

There's been discussion on bookworm_jen's journal about canon and unconventional relationships. She proposed 4 rankings of relationships:

1) Canon: We saw an actual relationship on screen or there was a clear reference to a past relationship.

2) Near-Canon: We saw flirting or a one time fling on screen, or there was the implication of a past relationship. I would put relationships that are only refered to in commentary or interviews into this category.

3) Non-Canon: There was no relationship on screen, but there was a significant amount of sub-text or build-up and the writers could easily have worked it into the series without distorting the characters too badly.

4) Unconventional: There was no relationship, and it's highly unlikely that the writers could or would have worked it into the series without drastically changing who the characters are.

I'm interested in how subjective these are, or how much we agree on what counts as canon or almost-canon, so I present a poll. I randomly picked 15 m/f, m/m and f/f pairings, some of which happened on the show, some of which didn't. To play, pick which of the categories above you think each one falls into.


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Comments

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

Sure it depends on when a person feels that Cordy stopped being Cordy. I think there are good arguements going back as far as Birthday, but for me was the moment she left was in Tomorrow. Based on what Skip told him, Wesely later surmised that the decent from the higher planes had confused Jasmine. So the being we saw was some merger of Cordy's memories and a confused Jasmine until Spin the Bottle. To me, it wasn't Cordy at all.

Obviously this is one that will never have a clear answer because of the way that ME needed to wank everything during the Jasmine arc to give it any of the crap CC performance any clarity; thus it's up to the individual to decide.