I think that's fair to say, yeah. That's another thing about the whole taking it out of the teacher-student environment I didn't actually think of -- the stuff I present to them is obviously original and even if it was fanfic they wouldn't know the characters (unless it was one of them and Firefly, but that's because I bought him the boxset). I mean, fans vary wildly as to whether they even agree on something as simple as, I don't know, the eye colour of a certain character. Which adds more difficulty to concrit in a fandom situation, like you say, because people think there's room for your interpretation is wrong.

And that's true, too. Like, some people probably think it's canon that Nooj actually loves Leblanc, while others definitely think um, no, not really. Just to think of a random example.

I dunno, if you can say "this is just me, but...", then I think that covers your ass. I mean, some people love original work for reasons that make no sense to me, and I hate said work for reasons that make no sense to them. (Not Harry Potter. I have many reasons for that. But other things.) People need to realise that one person's opinion =/= all people's opinion, and if you say "it might be just me, but..." then you'd've done your part to making sure that's clear, y'know?

(That's... general you, mostly in that last paragraph. And just one way to go about it. I'm sure there are others.)