Does Fanfiction change your view of Canon?

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I've been madly reading Pros fanfiction and have also found some extremely interesting and thought provoking discussions about specific stories here and elsewhere.

Lately, I've read a number of stories that fall into the realm of "unbalanced relationships", sometimes subtly, with just an occasional "thought" by a character, sometimes as the main theme of the story.

After finding the detailed thoughts people had about how Bodie and Doyle were acting in such stories, I wonder if and how the feelings they come away with influence their own view of the Bodie and Doyle they see in fanfiction.

Are you able to shake off any story and see the lads as you used to again, when watching an episode? Do you dislike one or the other more, when you previously didn't? Do you see scenes on the show in a different light?
If Doyle was a seemingly heartless bastard in one story, do you find it easy to see Bodie in that role in the next story and go with what each author presents?

Or do you seek out stories that jive with your view and stop reading when a story takes a turn that you can't see your Bodie or Doyle or Cowley taking?

For me, after a particularly unsettling story that(doesn't mean I disliked the story, just that things happened in it that aren't easy to shake, or that the Bodie and Doyle in it aren't at all like I perceive them in the show) I find myself watching an episode or two, to get things back into perspective, before getting back to reading.

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And whether or not he's horrible to Bodie or whatever, I think Doyle is portrayed in canon fairly consistently as an interesting, complicated kind of person and I think this is generally reflected in the writing, so reading the fiction didn't really influence or change my view of him....

Just wanted to ask: do you see Doyle as horrible to Bodie in canon? Or was that referring to fanfiction?

I don't know about canon, but just thinking about fiction and all the different kinds of stories out there, I'm not sure if it's possible to answer that question. People can gain impressions from their reading but they're going to be fairly subjective and those impressions might be heavily influenced by favouring one character over the other (if they do). But no, I wasn't referring to canon or fiction but just picking up on a couple of things you'd said above and in an earlier post you'd made.