Is DE cannon?

GL said after ROTJ the emperor was dead.

Mara jade told luke that she wasnt convinced that ,the suppoesd emperor was the true emperor.Sahe said this in the hrawn trilogy.

 

Cannon go boom!

 

Though Palpatine is nowhere near as dangerous in DE, because he isn't the mass-Force-imbalance machine he was.

the weird thing is he said it himself that he was more powerful then in the movies, and actually proves it.

 

Hes a little more ruthless as well, mostly because he no longer has any type of provisional council/senate to explain thisngs to or what not... but he released the world devastators upon the galaxy and just wasnt holding back then the force storm he creates at the end. I would say he was more relentless and powerful than ever before.

but YES it is canon

 

but he released the world devastators upon the galaxy and just wasnt holding back then the force storm he creates at the end. I would say he was more relentless and powerful than ever before.

i agree

 

Palpatine may have been somewhat more dangerous in De, but he had lost what made him truly dangerous: his mind. The long journey of his mind through the Void was enough to make him completely bat**** crazy. It's the only explanatuion for how incredibly STUPID he was throughout the whole arc.

 

having to share a body with two spirits, even in a clone body, can make you 'bat**** crazy' too

mind if i borrow that phrase?

 

How can it be Cannon when GL said the emperor was dead after return of the jedi.Dont you think it kind of belittles Anakin's sacrifice?

 

No, not really.

 

firstly its Canon with 1 N.
Cannons are weapons.
Canon (in the SW sense, is continutity)

secondly, the emporer was dead in ROTJ, Exar Kun was dead at the end of TOTJ, Ragnos died at the start of TOTJ, all 3 of them are Sith Lords, and guess what all 3 of them came back from the dead in one form or another.

"Time is but a Window, Death is But a Door.... I'LL BE BACK !"
-Vigo

Lucas apparently liked DE so much (or thought it was funny) he was reported to give it away at lucasfilm as christmas presents to the staff.

 

Um, no. If Anakin didn't sacrifice himself, Luke would be dead. Dead Luke = Living Palpatine. Thus, by conclusion, we can see that Anakin's sacrifice made ALL the difference.

Besides, Anakin killed the REAL Palpatine, not his crazy clone. We all know that clones are inferior to the originals, right?

 

GL said after sidous was dead that he was not comming back.

 

G.L. has said many things. Don't listen to G.L., watch his movies.

Yes, it's canon, it's a great story, and it works with Sidious coming back after Anakin's sacrifice. But I believe it was Palpy that came back, not Sidious. Other people believe it was just some mad clone...

 

Ah! But he wasn't really Palpatine, was he? He was El Clono.

 

then why did he permit DE to be made?

All SW works have to be approved by GL or some member of staff, but for the emperor coming back, i'd imagine it'd have to go to the top.

Funny thing is, Lucas also said the Dark Empire Arc was the closest thing to Episodes 7,8 and 9 in his mind.

 

They were going to bring Vader back, but Lucas nixed that.

This was printed before the prophecy was even thought of. Really, Vader made a sacrifice to save Luke, not to "bring balance to the Force". He saved Luke, Luke didn't die in DE. No sacrifice wasted.

 

A couple Insider continuity-columns ago, Pablo swore he'd one day tackle the Tales of the Jedi Sith-spirit issue. For what it's worth.

"Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?"

 

EEEEEEEEEEEExxactly.

If not before it was thought of, it wasn't talked of in any star wars work at all at all at all!

 

Easy Matt, at the time, he liked the idea!

What we're overlooking here is that different stuff gets done for different audiences. For EU fans of SW it gets complicated as Lucas is highly varied in his view of the EU, ranging from endorsement of ie. liking DE so much he gave copies as presents to putting up with it ie. the PT. Despite that, it may not be as incoherent a view as it appears. Lucas seems to say that the EU is fine unless it interferes with what he was doing in the films, which is fine. If there is a problem, it is not with what Lucas says or doesn't say about SW but what people take it to mean ie. EU should not affect the movies becomes EU is irrelevant, which isn't actually so!

Also: How many people outside of boards like this do you think have even heard of DE? I'll tell you: Not many. DE is a comic continuation of a popular story, it's a niche of a niche. So when in an interview for a film mag read by the general public and asked for his view of SW, yes, Lucas will say it is the 6 films he has done. It ends, as far as he is concerned, with the defeat of the Empire at Endor and Anakin's redemption. Note that this does not actually bar anyone else from continuing the story, with the most radical of ideas getting approval from Lucas. This view does not commit him to ending the EU in any way, it allows him to have the best of both worlds in fact!

DE is canon in the same way that NJO is: Love it or loathe it, it's hard to navigate around!

JB

 

DE is most definitely canon. There's a small reference to it in the beginning of Jedi Search. Not to mention Leia is pregnant with Anakin Solo during DE1 and gives birth in DE2.

 

But Palpatine and Sidious are the same person. I dont get what you're saying...