Lit A/V Clone Wars Continuity Discussion (Spoilers Allowed)

Kenobi. Though that may have been more due to the writer.

 

All this canon talk is tempting me to put my back into traction.

 

I laughed.

 

First of all, my strawman argument isn't even an argument at all, it's just bitching about the fact that everyone's jumping to conclusions because TCW must be bad and my patience with such behaviour is not what it might once have been. Second, as you say, it doesn't say it has any connection to anything, so I fail to see how that would stomp on anything that the EU has done, unless the expression "homeworld" is super definitive in a franchise that has swallowed some pretty heavy bullets before. Third, when Coruscant Nights totally messes up the timeline, nobody cries "OMG! SW EU is imploding!", but when TCW rewrites something it's the worst thing ever. In the same vein, Golden inventing Kyp Durran or TIE Decanonizers or whatever only gets a "oh she can't write", never a "oh all of EU is invalidated!!!". Fourth, I don't know why you're defending Ostrander but omitting generic source book guy. Finally, I don't know what everyone is doing, but when people are all glowy happy about something like Ostrander's DOTJ and I disagree I try to tone down my disagreement, not raining on everyone's parade. If they jump to happy shiny conclusions because of some preview and I care to elaborate on why I think there's too much unreasonable expectations, I hope I try to stay neutral ("Kemp duology" anyone). Whatever. The actual thing happening here is that everyone's pumping negativity into the thread because planet "Moriband" is a scapegoat, and Lucas and Filoni are the enemy, and the EU actually isn't all that good but you have to defend something if you want to keep believing in all that.

Man, I don't even want to get into such arguments over trivial stuff like TV shows and comic books. Back in december I was in love with this forum and couldn't wait to go back discuss things. Now ever since that one publisher was exchanged for that other publisher it's the end of days in here, and every stupid rumour and extrapolation leads to buckets of hate. Discussions in here are hardly fun anymore, it's all just people believing that that one publisher was paradise and what must we buy from them before the year ends, and it's people being viscious ever since they convinced themselves that they are fighting a losing battle against the owners of the franchise.

 

To be fair, I have been acting like it's the end of days and the EU is imploding since the latter half of 2005 or so. Maybe.

SOLIDARITY!

 

From my point of view, I am fighting a losing battle with LFL, and it has nothing to do with DHC, or even Disney. I don't even bother complaining about trivial things, like Golden's screw ups from FotJ, because I just disregard the entire post-NJO anyway. Apparently I have unreasonable expectations in wanting the post-NJO to actually make sense, instead of arguably disregarding everything the rest of the universe stands for. I guess am also unreasonable in wanting TCW to be consistent with the rest of the universe, instead of needlessly changing everything, and for the founding of the Alliance to Restore the Republic to not be Palpatine's failed plan to eliminate all remaining major opposition to the Galactic Empire.

 

I was bummed when Dark Force Rising needlessly changed the founding of the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

 

Oh cry me a river.

 

I wasn't being serious.

Eopie farts have been canon since 1999.

 

Seriously, like Dark Force Rising really did anything to dramatically change the founding of the Alliance, or that the term Corellian Treaty some how didn't leave open the possibility of, or even imply that Garm Bel Iblis, the Senator of the Corellian Sector, was somehow involved with it.

 

It changed as much as The Force Unleashed did.

 

Okay, so eopie gas didn't work, anakinfansince1983. We'll have to kick it up a notch.

The poop Jar Jar stepped in. Was it pooped by a canon animal?

 

I don't see how most of the older "retcons", like what Dark Force Rising did to The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook or what Lucas did to the pre-PT Clone Wars timing, verse say what TCW and TFU did on the same subjects, are even comparable, because to me DFR and the PT just established the full picture of what happened and meaningfully added something to those events, while TCW and TFU just changed things to change things from my point of view.

 

Gotta go with it again.

 

Guys. Guys. What if... ...all these retcons affected things at exactly the same level, regardless of opinions!

 

Let me put it this way, I don't see what the fuss is about DFR, and it was Lucas' prerogative to do what he wished with the PT and the Clone Wars, but then the EU plays by those rules, only for Lucas to just randomly change things yet again.

 

No, I understand. I do.

 

I'm not sure why Lucas is being blamed for TFU.