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Discussions What is your favorite EU book that has gotten retconed

Discussion in 'EU Community' started by Jedi Knight Fett, Feb 19, 2014.

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  1. Jedi Knight Fett

    Jedi Knight Fett Chosen One star 10

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    There has been many books but what is your favorite that has been retconed in any way.
     
  2. Cushing's Admirer

    Cushing's Admirer Chosen One star 7

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    Well, first, I am not entirely sure what retcon means or nearly all the changes that have been made. I quit reading EU at Betrayal. Clarification, please? If I understand the question I'll answer it. :)
     
  3. Mitth_Fisto

    Mitth_Fisto Chosen One star 6

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    They've done retcons? I just buy them when they come out and don't look back again. . .what changed?
     
  4. Jedi Knight Fett

    Jedi Knight Fett Chosen One star 10

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    Retcon means to change established facts about a piece of fiction and a example of a retcon is like how they made lots of Mandolore a nuclear desert in the clone wars and made them mostly piece loving people.
     
  5. Cushing's Admirer

    Cushing's Admirer Chosen One star 7

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    Thank you, RJ. :)
     
  6. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    Or, on a smaller scale- some of the dates in, for example, Dark Force Rising, got retconned thanks to the prequels.

    Not every retcon has to be big.
     
  7. SWpants

    SWpants Force Ghost star 5

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    Or how Tahiri and Anakin's kiss didn't happen but in the future it did happen through Force/Flow Walking. [face_not_talking]
     
  8. Mitth_Fisto

    Mitth_Fisto Chosen One star 6

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    You mean like Maul is not dead? Palpatine had an apprentice as an apprentice? Or the fact that they removed several aliens from the Cantina scene that had already had mentions in books restating meetings from the movie?
     
  9. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    RoTJ's extended versions of movie scenes also became a bit impossible thanks to the PT (Obi-Wan claiming Owen Lars was his brother, for example).

    Though I'm OK with The Essential Atlas retconning ROTJ's "the catastrophe that destroyed the host planet of the Forest Moon" out of existence, after a lot of books portrayed the Gas Giant Endor as still existing.
     
  10. Mitth_Fisto

    Mitth_Fisto Chosen One star 6

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    Well I never had a problem with the catastrophe angle, I always figured the forest moon could of the been the moon of the moon of the gas giant. . .so. Yup.
     
  11. TheChosenSolo

    TheChosenSolo Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Well, I don't know if this qualifies, but this is the only one I can think of at the moment. In Ambush at Corellia, Luke muses how he and Leia were raised by people who weren't who they said they were - i.e. the Organas weren't her parents, and the Larses weren't his aunt and uncle, even though in AotC Owen Lars is introduced as Anakin's step-brother.
     
  12. SWpants

    SWpants Force Ghost star 5

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    However, in the ANH novel, Obi-Wan says that Owen is his brother.
     
  13. Mitth_Fisto

    Mitth_Fisto Chosen One star 6

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    I am now seeing an interesting circle. . .
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  14. Aeternum

    Aeternum Jedi Padawan star 1

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    Matthew Stover's Traitor. One of the best pieces of Star Wars, period. After it was retconned to hell and Denning was finished raping its unrecognizable corpse, it's probably for the best that Disney nuked the whole EU mess from orbit.
     
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  15. Force Smuggler

    Force Smuggler Force Ghost star 7

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    The NJO series with the books that came after.
     
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