Critical Reading and reccing (In the SPN fandom)

So, this is something I've been thinking about for a little while, and I'm curious. In a youngish fandom, where the selection of authors and stories (at least on LJ--I don't really do ff.net) is rather small, how critically do you read?

There is some fantastic work out there for this fandom. (For a few examples, here's my list of spring recs from a few weeks back.)

There is some crap.

But there's a whole hell of a lot in between.

There are good stories written with mediocre style or convoluted sentence structure. There are clever stories, well written, that clearly ignore canonical fact (we have birthdays and or death days for almost every character--CHECK THEM, people).

In the HP fandom I used to frequent, I was a very picky reader, only reading and commenting on stories that were smart, interesting, and well-executed. Here, I've tried to do the same, but I think I may be missing out on a lot of the good that's out there.

So, here's my question to you: What are your standards in this particular fandom? What sins do to ignore? What makes you hit the back button?

Go.

Movie rec!

Okay, this is a little silly, but it's one of the more clever and enjoyable movies I've seen recently.

Zathura aka Jumanji in space.

Great movie for the whole family. Really cute, funny, tight script with a surprise twist, and since there's a certain other show I'm rather obsessed with at the moment, I'd like to mention that the brothers Danny and Walter are totally and completely Sammy and Dean Winchester... in another lifetime where their dad designs cars instead of hunting monsters. This is especially true when Walter--all spikey haired and ten years old--tells the robot to get him some juice "bi-otch."

*giggles madly*

Okay. I'm off to work at the hospital until three tomorrow morning. Bleh. For those of you whose stories I have, I love them all, and am about halfway through commenting on them. Can you wait til tomorrow to get them back? (hopefully before I have to go back to work at six. Sleep? What's that?)