From: "Sally Manton" smanton@hotmail.com
Canon - no. There _really_ isnt such a thing, its a figment on each person's imagination. We all do genuinely _see_ different things on the screen, I'm convinced of it
Well, no. We don't genuinely *see* different things on the screen, except in the case of occasions when one person is watching a cut-down version and the other one isn't. When I watch "Games," I see exactly the same visual images that Neil sees when he watches "Games," that Una sees when she watches "Games," that my flatmate sees when he wanders into the room and asks "what are you watching *now*?" That's the canon. If it were possible for two people to watch the same videotape and see different images... well, video manufacturers would be doing a landoffice business :).
It seems to me that when you are using the word "see," you are using it in the sense in which other people on the thread have been using the word "interpretation." And there I *would* agree with you: two people can see the same images and come up with wildly divergent interpretations. But that's a different issue entirely.
(How many times have you thought "which show was _that_ person watching? I know I have, and I'd be surprised if anyone at all hasnt thought it about me.)
I have, but I generally haven't meant it literally... :)
With apologies to H D "when I use canon, it is exactly what I see, no more and no less."
Yes, exactly. But "seeing" and "interpreting" are two different acts, and I'm not sure but they may have gotten confused here?
And I like it that way ... its much more fun to have ,y own input into the show.
But nobody is denying anybody's right to interpretation here-- at least *I'm* not, and I'd be deeply upset if anyone else was.
it; were I to see it like Neil, Fiona, Kathryn, Carol ... anyone else, I possibly wouldnt enjoy it, because I aint them and arent looking for the same things.
If you did see it like me, then quite conceivably you would enjoy it, cos you'd be seeing it like I did :).
Fiona
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