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I think LoE trumps the micro-series where there's contradictions, that the official stance of LFL.

 

I honestly wouldn't mind them spinning an entirely new continuity, but not for relatively minor things. I was even interested in seeing an episode of TCW that explored an alternate future in which Dooku remained Palpatine's apprentice, just as a "non-canon" way of showing what Dooku expected to happen and what would have happened aboard the Invisible Hand if Dooku won, or if Anakin was killed during the war. I knew the odds of that happening were 0%. But I think there are plenty of "what if" stories that could be interesting in their own right. Like Maul tracking Obi-Wan to Tatooine, or Starkiller killing and replacing Vader. But all of those stories are one-shot stories that have no continuity.

I would be game for seeing and Infinities whole alternate timeline and completely new continuity where such things can happen and yet still have continuity with all other stories written in that alternate timeline. Like DC's Earth-One or Marvel's Ultimate continuities. Only, again, I would be completely disinterested in seeing the continuities ever cross over to each other.

 

I hadn't heard that. Source?

 

The micro-series was based on an old draft of LoE, so any differences between LoE and the micro-series are the result of that discrepancy.

 

Part of LoE is a fairly obvious callback to events from the microseries.

 

C-canon shouldn't trump other c-canon, but the discrepancy was corrected in the NEC.

 

I would've assumed that in case of a discrepancy that whatever was newer would trump what was older. Just as G-canon trumps itself with any updates. Or otherwise just new details that have to be accommodated via other sources, like how "a thousand generations" gets changed to "a thousand years" and then the EU has to clarify the discrepancy.

 

I took it as "micro series trumps LOE or vise versa." I understand what you mean by correcting/new trumping old.

 

I'm going to be bold and say that everything Post-2007 should be made non-canon. Everything is just a mess now. 2008-2014= The Non-Canon years.

 

I suspect everything that's not on film, including TCW, will become non-canon eventually. It seemed like Lucas kept the PT era off limits to the EU so there was no conflict when he started making his films (or minimal conflict). He seemed to let the EU touch upon everything else because he had no intention of going post-ROTJ, pre-TPM, inbetween the OT films, etc.

But with Disney they seem like they're going to want as much open to them as possible since they are not limiting the films to just 1-9, and probably want to keep their options open and so probably aren't going to be bound to what Lucas Licensing approved when Lucas was in charge of the company.

Stories like Shadows of the Empire are probably fairly safe, since I doubt any future films or TV shows are really going to come back to the ESB-ROTJ gap. But I definitely think that pre-TPM, post-ROTJ, and the ROST-ANH gap are on the chopping block.

 

There won't be a "canon" eventually and even the films will be significantly and knowingly contradicted whenever they feel like it.

 

My respect for canon died when Darth Maul was "resurrected" and was in serious jeopardy when I found out about the initial premise of TCW and its numerous contradictions.

 

I'm basically edging towards this stance too. It's too difficult and not worth it stressing over canon, especially with EPVII on its way. I'll just watch and read; Disney can take all the EU, but not my fond memories enjoying it.

Basically, why care about canon when the creators don't?

 

I have a feeling it will eventually come to this as well. For current Star Wars fans though the good thing is it probably will not happen for quite awhile. Just looking at what they are doing with the Wizard of Oz these days you know that people are going to play around with the Star Wars universe similarly for generations upon generations. It will probably take them a good ten to fifteen years just to get out of their current post ROTJ buzz then they will probably think of a new era they want to go into if there is still a solid outpouring of support for more movies. Fifty years from now though when anything related to Star Wars that is not a movie is hard to find and there is little fan attachment to things Disney has not created I think they very easily will go into different eras and totally erase the EU.

One thing I think will be one of the first things they would do would be Darth Sidious backstory.

 

Disney didn't create the OT or the PT. And there is no proof they would shoot themselves in the foot by erasing something that is consistently bestselling

 

Uhh, we are just talking about them earasing everything to do with the EU not them erasing the movies that Lucas made. Of course they wouldn't do that Ep. IV is one of those things that they put in that special library for goodness sakes.

 

Then answer why would they shoot themselves in the foot

 

Erasing the EU wouldn't be shooting themselves in the foot. It's just time for you to accept that the stories that you have enjoyed reading in the EU aren't going to be very important anymore. They never actually have been very important anyways and they are going to be respected even less so now.

 

Well let's just go over this again because you EU fans seem to absolutely refuse to accept the difference. The EU books are 'C' cannon. 'C' cannon is not the same as 'T' cannon or 'G' cannon. At any given time 'G' cannon or 'T' cannon has the right to come in and erase 'C' cannon because in most cases 'C' cannon was just the story of some individual author outside of Lucasfilm. 'C' cannon is not the story of Lucasfilm. If Lucasfilm wants to eventually go in and tell the story that they have in mind then they have every right to do so because 'C' cannon was not the story that they told.

 

A homeless guy off the streets is ranked higher than trained, professional authors?

 

Well you can continue to call it lazy if you want but that is just your opinion. A lot of other people will have the opinion that they are just telling the story that they wanted to tell all along. And that the EU was not the story that they wanted to tell and they have every right to go in and tell the story that they want to tell since it is their franchise and not those authors franchise.

Gripe about it if you must but you are going to have to get used to it. Create your own personal canon if you want to.