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Manisphere
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Aug '07
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Date Posted:
5/13 4:45pm
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RE: Continuity implosion in progress: Will 'The Clone Wars' change everything?
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Can someone tell me what is so different about Anakin's write up except the addition of Ahsoka Tano? I mean something that isn't a minor detail that can be retconed by wiping away Jedi Trial or killing Ahsoka in episode whatever? Not being as astute on canon as so many of you I'm not sure how the databank change made such a big deal. Referencing Cato Neimoidia seemed like a nod saying that not all EU is out the window. Am I off here?
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Kaje
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5/13 5:15pm
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RE: Continuity implosion in progress: Will 'The Clone Wars' change everything?
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Manisphere posted:
Can someone tell me what is so different about Anakin's write up except the addition of Ahsoka Tano? I mean something that isn't a minor detail that can be retconed by wiping away Jedi Trial or killing Ahsoka in episode whatever? Not being as astute on canon as so many of you I'm not sure how the databank change made such a big deal. Referencing Cato Neimoidia seemed like a nod saying that not all EU is out the window. Am I off here?
"Impressed by Anakin's skill with the Force, the Jedi Council quickly conferred upon him the status of General and Jedi Knight at the war's outset."
5/6 of the way through the war is hardly the outset.
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It doesn't bode well in a discussion about reto-activily altering a fictional universe when we want to reto-actively alter reality.
Haha! I love it!
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I WARNED you -- -- now the TIMELINE demands RESHUFFLING!
Not so fast, GEORGE -- let's not release anything we'll REGRET!
Now I can rest in peace.
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ThrawnRocks
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5/13 8:49pm
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After almost 24 hours of this going through my head, I think I'm actually going to have to say "no" to the idea of getting Star Wars authors like Dan and Abel drunk. I'm pretty sure alcohol was involved in the conceptions of Waru and Zonama Sekot 
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Grand_Admiral_Sean8
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5/13 9:25pm
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Randy Stradley is right: we're all too negative. Star Wars has swallowed far larger continuity gutbombs, and many of them have proved beneficial in the long run. If the Expanded Universe remains intact after the Prequel Trilogy, it'll survive an animated TV show.
Weirdly enough, the best components Star Wars are the additions everyone resisted most violently. I admit, the very idea of Legacy made me sick to my stomach with fear, but now I'm a subscriber. If nothing else, the Clone Wars series will revive popular interest in Star Wars -- it might even popularize the Expanded Universe!
On the flip side, the worst components of Star Wars are the additions everyone anticipated most eagerly. We fanboys are poor prognosticators.
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ATimson
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5/13 10:25pm
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Grand_Admiral_Sean8 posted:
Star Wars has swallowed far larger continuity gutbombs, and many of them have proved beneficial in the long run. If the Expanded Universe remains intact after the Prequel Trilogy, it'll survive an animated TV show.
The movies are all of six hours of content; the TV show only needs to go 16 episodes to match that, meaning that even one full season of the show* will have more screentime--and thus introduce more content for the books to hew to--than the prequels combined.
I think that what has everybody concerned is not only this specific gutbomb (if accurate), but that there are likely to be more if they're ignoring even the broad strokes of prior Clone Wars tales, much less details. (Which is completely understandable, just not what I want to see.  )
*Using the American standard of 22-26 here, not the British standard of 6.
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SuperWatto
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5/14 12:22am
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I wonder what this board had been like, had it been around during the release of the Ewok movies.
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Jedimarine
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5/14 6:29am
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a lot more typos...how well can 6 year-olds type?
Plus, there is no way I spend free time here when there are new battles to forge with Kenner toys!
oh, how many times did Vader rule the Ewok village with ruthless efficiency! 
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SuperWatto
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5/14 7:15am
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Ewok movies made me sell all my Kenner toys.
That was only my first Rouge77 period.
Happened again when DE came out.
I was like 'wtk happened to my Marvel universe?'
Cue the second 'disenfranchised' period.
Then it was peace for a while... Until someone in a restaurant came up with the Vong.
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BobaMatt
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5/14 7:21am
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Methinks if the novels themselves were better received, we wouldn't hate the Vong.
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Jedimarine
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5/14 7:34am
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BobaMatt posted:
Methinks if the novels themselves were better received, we wouldn't hate the Vong.
???
you mean novels prior to the Vong?
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BobaMatt
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No, I mean if the NJO novels were written such that people didn't hate them so, the Vong wouldn't be a problem. Instead, people hate the Vong wholesale.
For example, having not read great swaths of the NJO, I don't dislike them as a concept.
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Ulicus
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5/14 7:40am
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^ Ditto.
I really need to get around to reading the whole NJO. From the looks of things, I think I'd very much like them.
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BobaMatt
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5/14 7:42am
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And I absolutely love what John and Jan have done with them in Legacy.
My gushing about Legacy may become a problem if I'm to remain a member of the book staff, huh?
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I don't think "people hate the Vong", as a general rule. Sure, some people dislike them - some people dislike the NJO - but I suspect that the group who think the concept was inherrently weak, or that it was never well-executed in individual novels, is smaller than the NJO-hating group itself.
Does anyone hate Nom Anor? Nen Yim? Kunra?
Shedao Shai? Tsvong Lah? Nas Choka?
Harrar? Elan? Deign Lian?
Vua Rapuung? Riina? Mezhan Kwaad?
EDIT: I guess the point is that there's a difference between "I don't like the sound of this", "I don't like how it's panned out", and "everyone hates the whole idea".
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