sabarte posted:

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patchworkz7 posted:

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The only thing that confuses me is that I thought one of the reasons people were so excited about this project was because the project leads had announced they were taking stuff from the EU and intent on working it into the whole tapestry.

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Well, Filoni and one of the others are apparently familiar/approving of the EU continuity - but Lucas took a much bigger role than what was expected in the beginning, rarely a good thing for C-Canon.

I kind of hope he gets distracted by the live action series sooner rather than later.

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sabarte posted:

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Patch, you and Traviss seem to have some bizarre view of canon - that it's fragile enough that one contradiction destroys the whole thing and then you might as well change everything. That's not the case. It's resilient in a good way - which doesn't mean one should stick knives in it because they can! Certain parts of canon people accept mostly in a tongue-in-cheek way.

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patchworkz7 posted:

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We're arguing that canon is more than resiliant enough to take even the overwriting of itself and preserve the essential story that is SW. No different than Han shooting first or Han meeting Jabba in the hanger deck.

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Ulicus posted:

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Path of Destruction, to use it as an example again, remained reasonably true to the "mythos" laid down by JvS. It didn't, however, remain true to the canon/continuity laid down by JvS (in some places, that is).

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TC posted:

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Of course, JvS did the same thing to the Jedi Knight graphic novel, which did the same thing to the Jedi Knight game. The mythos is consistant in the novel, the graphic novel, the comic, and the video game, but the exact details aren't. Annoying, but not the end of the world...and not something that Drew started either.

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rhonderoo posted:

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patchworkz7 posted:

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We're arguing that canon is more than resiliant enough to take even the overwriting of itself and preserve the essential story that is SW. No different than Han shooting first or Han meeting Jabba in the hanger deck.

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...move away quietly.

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TalonCard posted:

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Very true. The perpetuation of the "multiverses" in comics indicates that even in the more flexible world of comic book continuity there are quite a few "Bus Timetable Readers".

Ulicus posted:

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Path of Destruction, to use it as an example again, remained reasonably true to the "mythos" laid down by JvS. It didn't, however, remain true to the canon/continuity laid down by JvS (in some places, that is).

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Of course, JvS did the same thing to the Jedi Knight graphic novel, which did the same thing to the Jedi Knight game. The mythos is consistant in the novel, the graphic novel, the comic, and the video game, but the exact details aren't. Annoying, but not the end of the world...and not something that Drew started either.

TC

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sabarte posted:

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My opinion of comic continuity is created to allow authors to do infinite reimaginings of characters without any consistency.

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sabarte posted:

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What comic continuity involves is an unwillingness for authors and those in charge of a franchise to take responsibility for what they do to characters. It's just not mature storytelling.

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dizfactor posted:

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On the contrary, it's arguably more mature and sophisticated storytelling. It adds a whole level of complex metatextual play which is largely absent in the more pedestrian, linear, and literal world of SW EU.

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