Very good points about the perception and perspective of the reader/viewer, thanks for sharing them.

With TV and movies, I'm often amazed at how various viewer 'takes' on a character and his/her story can differ so widely. The author still has his/her voice, but fandom will get what it gets from the show and the performances. That's not unique to those media, though, of course. For instance, I can think of a couple of songs that are not love songs, but are widely perceived to be - in one case the songwriter says he's come to accept it and in the other he said it really makes him wonder if they were listening to the lyrics at all!