Lit A/V The Force Awakens and the EU [TAGGED spoilers.]

Aww, I was just about to make that joke.

 

I find it hard to believe that from now on there will be only one canon level. What if Disney decides to make a new movie or TV special, say in 2020, but its storyline contradicts a comic published in 2016? Will the story group tell their bosses at Disney "see, you can't do this, because there's this comic!"

 

I am cautiously optimistic about this, actually. If they specifically call out stuff like Death Troopers, I think they may actually have their heads on straight and will try to mold the EU reasonably.

Of course, as soon as they touch something like Courtship or the X-Wing series, the gloves are coming off.

 

This article was on the front page of Yahoo! news. Of interest, I noted the following paragraph:

Really, the entire article is interesting, if not quite lol worthy, simply because the author has only the barest knowledge of the EU, and if might give some people around here an idea about how Average Joe Critic might view how things have been run up until now.

 

What if this is like the Matrix and in reality the EU was always elaborate fan fiction?!

 

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Man, over the past few days, I don't believe I've ever seen a bigger surge of Star Wars misinformation happening. For starters, the Darth Maul comic coming from Dark Horse Comics, while based on a script from Lucasfilm Animation, IS NOT, and was never the intended finale for the series...The Star Wars canon stuff is totally being reported inaccurately across the web - The statement that all Star Wars stories will fall under one canon DOES NOT MEAN that all previous EU stories will be included. They can be used, yes, MOVING FORWARD. So essentially, it's business as usual in that dept...AND...During a AMC Movie Talk marathon, Jon Schnepp, a director on Metalocalypse, NEVER said the Boba Fett film would be the "FIRST" spinoff. He just said he heard it was ONE of the spinoffs coming, not necessarily the "FIRST". The internet echo chamber is once again working it's magic. What's next? Someone will report they actually found new Hasbro Star Wars Action Figures available at retail? -

 

Also the barest knowledge of pluralization.

 

I don't think it would be that difficult to maintain a consistent canon amongst everything you see onscreen (all the movies and tv shows). However I think it would get real difficult to maintain a consistent canon if you started to try to include all the books and comics into that. The only way I think they could is if they severely limited how many books and comics got put out into the publics hands.

If they only have a book or two published a year then it would be possible but if the EU gets as crowded as it is now then no way can they keep track of everything.

 

If it's still in its original wrapper... that could happen. From a certain point of view, and all that.

 

hahahha, we should totally start one with mugshots and bios for each member like trading cards / prison records and endlessly debate their worthiness of being appointed.

 

High five for Jaxxon pic.

 

What. The ****. Is wrong. With people.

 

Having read both articles, I don't see anything to indicate that the EU will survive. Rather, that FUTURE Expanded Universe comics & novels will be tied to a single canon in line with the Prequels, Originals, and Sequels.

So, starting in 2015, anything Star Wars will be under one canon that Pablo & Leeland coordinate. That is a good thing, in that there is a very good chance that they will salvage the best parts of the old EU and incorporate it into the new canon.

But come on guys, so you really think that the majority of the post-ROTJ EU is safe? The NJO and Legacy, while two of the pinnacles of the modern EU, aren't exactly easy to explain (or avoid contradicting) in the new Sequel Trilogy.

Granted, everyone will read these articles with an eye toward what they want to hear (myself included), so we will just have to wait and see.

--Adm. Nick

 

At first I was like don't care, but then I keep staring at the text until it made me angry...

I'm ashamed to have a Yahoo mail account!

 

"Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars...."

 

About Leland's tweet that led to all these articles, what's the difference between "classification" and "setting hierarchy"?

 

I see it in that this development will go one of two ways:

a) everything post-ROTJ and anything else Disney wants erased will be deleted, and everything covering that starts fresh.

b) the current timeline is picked through, keeping some things canon and disposing of others, perhaps "clearing the way" so to speak for Episode VII and related material. As new books, comics, video games or even movies are made and released that contradict with canon that was originally kept, the new content will supplant the existing canon, forcing the old canon into "alternate" canon.

 

Everything that he's tweeted regarding this has been kind of cryptic and vague, hasn't it. I can't imagine that's by accident because he doesn't normally tweet that way.

Anyway, I would imagine "classification" is whether something is or isn't canon; whether this story proposal or that video game idea contradicts canon or not. And "hierarchy" is obviously different levels of canon, which is being eliminated.

 

I am currently fighting against the urge to even read it. It's yahoo, so that article itself is likely to be crap. And then there's the comment section.... Nope. Not masochistic enough.

 

It will acquire a whole new meaning after the new canon dance-off between Obi-Wan and Bail to feature in SW Kinect 2.

 

Classification, could be for marketing, and licensing products, On the Forcecast, he talked about if someone wanted to make
Star Wars toilet Paper, they'd go to G, or T Canon for movie characters, and vehicles, which would sell better than C.
As for the future, they just won't approve anything that doesn't fit, into the main story.

Non canon stuff will be things like Kids books, behind the scenes books, , coloring books, Lego specials.
and Disney/Marvel/Pixar crossovers