Leland Chee: No More Canon Levels

Normally I don't say this, but: I told you so.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/7/52...non-can-now-include-expanded-universe-stories

Basically, from now forward (key phrase - there is no backwards compatability promised or implied here), all Star Wars stories - games, novels, comics, TV, and so on - will all be at one level of canon. There is no more EU in the sense we have known it. There's no more G-canon, C-canon, T-canon, Q-canon, or Schua-canon. There's just the Star Wars universe - one contiguous, interlocking, consistent, seamless, 360-degree-integrated whole.

Canon levels was the independent Lucasfilm way. It's not the Disney way. It has never been how Disney does business, and it won't be how Disney handles Star Wars going forward.

Which is all great news as far as I'm concerned. No more stories that don't count, or didn't "really" happen, and that are shaky propositions as far as investing any interest or emotion into them. No more arguments about what is canon and what isn't, about what story outranks what, about which contradictory piece of lore is the "real" version.

About damn time.

 

P. S. this also settles the argument about what canon level Rebels is. It's Star Wars canon - the one and only level that exists going forward. Period, full stop, end of story.