You know, I never considered how, with RPF, the whole overtaken-by-canon-events thing would go to a whole new level. I mean, it's a lot easier to say, "c. season two" and have people mentally hit skip until they're back before ascension and so on, than it is to say, "c. 2002" and have people mentally erase the intervening years of blind items and interviews and CDs and massive fanon speculation and so on.

Or, hmmm. That could just be the way it looks to an outsider. Perhaps someone in RPF could easily say, "Ah! Set in 2002, before-" and, wow. I fail at even being up on what was happening in 2002, RPF-wise.

But possibly my point is clear anyway. (Or quite possibly it is not, but I don't think clarity is going to be my deal today, so it's as good as it's gonna get.)