Moriband? Korriban? Don't care?

Moriband? Korriban? Don't care? Which do you choose?

Personally I choose Moriband...I'd never heard the Korriban before people started kicking off about the change. Plus they used the name Moriband in the show, which as we all know is (along with the movies - obviously) the tip top of canon. Ergo it trumps books/games/everything else. I get that the Korriban was established elsewhere, but if anyone can overrule it it George Lucas!

What are your thoughts?

 

If you never heard of Korriban before 2014 your SW-fu is seriously weak. I mean, for a guy who's been on this board for 6 years. Come on.

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I've heard of KOTOR but that's it. As far as I'm concerned the movies and The CLone Wars is canon. Any books and games are just books and games with the SW name attached. I know there's levels of canon, but as far as I'm concerned it's either canon according to the movies and The Clone Wars or it's not canon.

 

I prefer Korriban (to me it's Kori-bon). However, I know my personal prefs won't affect what Disney does a bit. It's the name I know and I utterly ignore TCW as for me it brings absolutely nothing of merit to the universe. To each their own.

 

"I grow tired of asking this, so it will be the last time. Where are the Sith tombs?"

"Korriban. They're on Korriban."

As far as I'm concerned, TCW is pseudo-canon at best. A cartoonified version of the SW galaxy, open to nearly infinite interpretation.

Naturally, an individual's own perceptions will be influenced by their first impressions. If your first impression was "Moraband", then you're likely going to think of the planet as Moraband. If, like me, your first impression was "Korriban" and you've thought of it as Korriban for many years, then any other name is immaterial.

 

Nice variation on a Cushing quote there! Well said.

 

Thankya. Just popped into my head, can't imagine why...

 

Well, I appreciate it and you made a very valid point first impressions and time association can factor majorly how someone sees something.

 

Therein lies the source of frustration. Star Wars is a cartoon. The whole thing is a serialized adventure aimed primarily at children with content that adults can enjoy as well. That means TCW gets it right, and soooooo many of those EU products get it sooooo horribly wrong.

 

Korriban rolls off the tongue better imo.

 

@ Ian passman: For some. It's all a matter of perception, Sir.

 

I don't really care. I'm content with the notion that the same place can have multiple names. Like how in English we might refer to the Aztecs, while they refer to themselves as Mexica. Or how we say Spain, while in Spanish it is España, Japan/Nippon, etc. I can easily accept the retcon that Moraband is balc while Korriban is basic (or vice versa).

 

It goes right back to perceptions, though. The EU is aimed at an entirely different set of audiences. In its own way, it gets it just as "right" as TCW. It's also a part of what makes Star Wars so great in general. It's not just for kids, or just for adults or those who grew up with it, not just for the gamers or collectors, it's for all of them together. There's a niche for almost everybody who's ever heard the name Skywalker.

 

Six PG ratings out of seven can't be that off the mark. It's the kids that turned this franchise into a juggernaut, and it's the kids that'll keep it alive in the decades to come. The best gift Disney could ever give them is a world without the EU.

 

Once again, to you. Not everyone shares this view, I certainly don't.

 

I actually prefer Moriband.

 

But neither is he alone in that sentiment.

 

Why? Given that the powers that be seem content to ignore it whenever they're making new stuff it's not really stepping on anyone's toes and constraining potential directions that any future children's cartoons can go in.

 

Korriban was always Korriban for me, and that's what I prefer.

And although the Moraband name-change was silly and unnecessary, the justification of it being an alternative name for the planet or evidence of the evolution of language in the GFFA makes perfect sense to me, and I can live with it.

I'll still always call it Korriban.

 

The unreliable narrator is what makes mythology so immersive and elaborate. The idea that the storyteller changes the story--as frustrating as it sometimes is--and creates apocryphal contributions to the Edda at large is a crucial element of the mystical power of mythology. With one story and one story alone, it would no longer have that cultural fluidity that slightly obscures the big picture. Yes, we have our exalted scholars who tell us what's official, but as with all mandates, it can't wipe from our minds that which has been revised.

I think getting too involved ("xX_If ThEy WiPe OuT tFu, We WaLk!!1!_Xx") is silly, but also... somehow, it has its place. Without people to take things too seriously and form these fiction-cults, there would be much less happening in the passage of time for the rest of us to sit on and think about with regard to the mythology we all subscribe to. I'm guilty of being snobby about that, but I also realize that while Star Wars isn't my divine pantheon the way it is for some, I do have my other systems and sets of things that I'm that particular about. We all do, really. Whether you're religious or not, there's something in all of our lives to which we apply that human religious fervor in our brains. If, for you, that's Star Wars, then I totally get why stuff like this is so important.

 

Couldn't you agree to both? That's what they say is "canon" anyways.

 

Korriban. To Hell with Lucas' pointless changes.

 

It will continue to be Korriban to me. Yoda having a different name for it is not a big deal to me. Voted "don't care."

 

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