Well, McGee/Abby, from what I can tell is at least tangentially canon, and I tend to have very little interest in canon pairings in general.
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but you seem to be asking about the interaction of fanon and canon. As someone who's only see the first six eps of season one and the last three of season six, you'd think I'd be missing some vital information with respect to fic, but it doesn't take reading a lot of fic in a fandom to discover what the important plot developments are. So I know Kate died suddenly, Tony went undercover and was completely screwed over by the director, Gibbs lost his memory and handed over command to Tony for four months, and that Gibbs has been married multiple times and lost one wife (and daughter?). I don't know how all these things happen, so I will still enjoy the episodes when I get to them, but for fic, all that matters is knowing that they did happen.
Even if I'd seen every episode of the show, when starting to read the fic, you still go through a process of learning the fanon for the show (Fanon is anything not explicitly in the show but accepted by the general consensus of the fandom. For example, in Sentinel fandom, it's generally accepted that Blair directs Jim to control his senses by "dialing" them up or down, even though the dial metaphor was only used once on the show. icarusancalion put together a list of Stargate Atlantis fanon for season one, (http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/783104.html#cutid1) to show how the fan vision of the show differs from the canon.) So there's always a process of learning what the fandom considers the pivotal episodes—sometimes these are obvious, sometimes not so much.
If you're asking do people address these things in fic? Of course. If not directly (and I've been avoiding episode tags since I'd have a harder time following those), then in how they conceive of the characters and the state of their relationships. But NCIS is a show with relatively little canon you need to know to read fic. It's pretty different for a fandom like, say Supernatural or (god forbid) Heroes, which have massive, complicated on-going arcs.
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Date: 2008-10-13 06:54 pm (UTC)I'm not quite sure what you mean, but you seem to be asking about the interaction of fanon and canon. As someone who's only see the first six eps of season one and the last three of season six, you'd think I'd be missing some vital information with respect to fic, but it doesn't take reading a lot of fic in a fandom to discover what the important plot developments are. So I know Kate died suddenly, Tony went undercover and was completely screwed over by the director, Gibbs lost his memory and handed over command to Tony for four months, and that Gibbs has been married multiple times and lost one wife (and daughter?). I don't know how all these things happen, so I will still enjoy the episodes when I get to them, but for fic, all that matters is knowing that they did happen.
Even if I'd seen every episode of the show, when starting to read the fic, you still go through a process of learning the fanon for the show (Fanon is anything not explicitly in the show but accepted by the general consensus of the fandom. For example, in Sentinel fandom, it's generally accepted that Blair directs Jim to control his senses by "dialing" them up or down, even though the dial metaphor was only used once on the show.
If you're asking do people address these things in fic? Of course. If not directly (and I've been avoiding episode tags since I'd have a harder time following those), then in how they conceive of the characters and the state of their relationships. But NCIS is a show with relatively little canon you need to know to read fic. It's pretty different for a fandom like, say Supernatural or (god forbid) Heroes, which have massive, complicated on-going arcs.