User blog:Garr9988/To Have or Not to Have

Something I was thinking about last night was whether we should treat canon characters as if they have permanent or last consequences from their work that weren't shown in canon, if that makes sense.

The examples that came to mind were, for example, puncture wounds/scars and electrical scars on Pete's back from the Spine of Saracen (Jack's body and one of the victims were explicitly shown and said to have marks on their back showing where the Spine attached to their vertebra and spinal cord, and Pete not only had the Spine on him, which gave off electricity, but got hooked up to a generator and electrocuted him with intense voltage; but, after that episode, Pete's back never had scarring, likely due to the show's ignoring certain things, etc.), or characters have PTSD from seeing horrible things or going through horrible events or almost dying so often (which was never explored in the show).

I know I've been said to be "anal" about canon (no, Draco, I won't let that go), but should we deny ourselves to include what the show never did in terms of long-lasting consequences from this crazy, dangerous job that can also lend themselves to emotional story moments?