CT Does anyone else have their "own canon"?

I have a personal canon too. I'm really into the EU so I would include a lot of EU material as well as both the OT and the PT. For me it's all Star Wars. That said, I can see why you have the canon you do and I understand your reasons.

 

I have my own cannon.

Star Wars, ESB, ROTJ (non-SE versions of all 3) and the EU novels and comics ending w/ VOTF in time stream 1. I remember always thinking of the first movie of the OT as Star Wars, not ANH, as a kid. Luke & Leia's real mom raised Leia while Obi-wan took Luke to the Larses to raise. And somehow I thought the clone wars happened 60-100 years before the OT when I was a kid, sort of a Jedi & good guys vs. evil clones kinda thing. And I just cannot reconcile Darth Vader with the Anakin Skywalker showed to us in the prequels. And in this time stream I still have Chewie, Mara, all 3 solo kids, etc alive...and no Darth Caedus.

Then the prequels, NJO, LOTF and FOTJ in time stream 2. These started to bring in material from the prequels, which is totally understandable given when they were written.

And now the new movies, Rebels, and novels are in time stream 3.

And yes, its entirely possible I've seen too much Star Trek and Dr Who.

 

How I try and imagine young Anakin and Obi-Wan

 

I believe in 6 differents canons/universes
LucasCanon (I II TCW III IV V VI)
This one of my favorites, since it form one big story about the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker and the Empire, and it all came from George. It had a great beginning,middle and an end
Legends
I like most of the Legends stories like Heir to the Empire and KOTOR, but the universe became so big that it was hard to ever catch up with it and the bigger it gets the harder it gets to control continuity errors (and I despise continuity errors)
Official Canon
It's to early to judge it, but so far I'm a big fan of it. What I don't like however is the concept of the ST, we have all of these stories (I II TCW III Kanan Tarkin LOTS AND R IV HTTJ Marvel's Star Wars Marvel's Darth Vader V VI) all centered around the battle against one big bad (Palpatine) and then they just skip to the ST which doesn't feel like a logical continuation of the story and it destroys the ending of ROTJ. But even if Disney has ruined ROTJ, I have chosen this canon as my headcanon since it is the official canon
Original Canon (IV V VI)
I'm not a big fan of it, but I can see why people would choose this canon. Even if I like the PT, I must admit that the OT is superior in story telling and characters
Pablo Canon (I II TCW III R IV V VI)
I nicknamed this canon the Pablo Canon, due to a tweet from Pablo Hidalgo, regarding what's canon (I think it was tweeted just before the new canon announcement). This canon is my favorite one since these stories form one big story like the LucasCanon, and Rebels (going by some rumors) is basically a sequel to TCW
Shakespeare Canon (William Shakespeare's Star Wars)
This might not count as it's own canon, but I love these books so much



Ranking the Canons
1.Official Canon
2.Pablo Canon
3.LucasCanon
4.Legends
5.Shakespeare Canon
6.Original Canon

 

In my personal canon there are only the 6 live action films, just the core.

 

I consider the general Darth Vader/Order 66 storyline to be canon, but I mentally picture having The Clone Wars' version of the prequel characters in it, which makes it way better than the prequel films. I would consider that my canon.
Here's my ideal canon:
TCW version of the prequel trilogy
The Force Unleashed (First, not the second)
Star Wars: Rebels
Episodes IV-VII

 

As of right now, my canon consists of the OT, the PT, TCW, Rebels, and all new EU stuff (Tarkin, HTTJ, LOTS, A New Dawn, etc). I haven't read all of those, but I plan on it. As for Legends, I still include a lot of it, until it is contradicted by something official that is. Post ROTJ stuff is out, but many of the stories depicted in the PT era as well as the Old Republic stuff I still consider canon.

 

My own canon has changed recently. For a long time my general stance was "everything in the EU is canon until officially contradicted by the new canon" but as I explore the EU more and more, I notice so many contradictions and stuff I just plain don't like that I've been forging my own personal timeline. I'm keeping it flexible because there's so much stuff to come, who knows what could happen. So my stance on THIS is still "until officially retconned". This doesn't include things I haven't read, so I'm prone to change it

Tales of the Jedi
Darth Plagueis
Cloak of Deception
The Phantom Menace
The Approaching Storm
Attack of the Clones
Everything Clone Wars (pre-2008) that isn't contradicted by TCW
The Clone Wars (TV series)
Revenge of the Sith
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
Darth Vader and the Lost Command
Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison
Tarkin
A New Dawn
Droids (TV series)
Rebels
Death Star (novel)
ANH-ROTJ
Archie Goodwin-Al Williamson newspaper strip

I consider deleted scenes, novelizations (except when they contradict the movies, in which case the movie events are what happened), the ANH radio drama, and DK's guidebooks to all be canon.

 

I accept our given Star Wars Canon .
Then with every mention we get from Star Wars Legends I try it to fit as good as possible.
(Deleted Scenes and George Lucas info(like from novelizations or EU) are also canon to me unless contradicted.)

 

Most of Plagueis, most of Cloak of Deception, the 6 movies, TCW, the Rogue Squadron games (excluding Relics of Geonosis), the new Vader comics, and the new Leia comics

 

An old thread, but have your opinions changed after the yet released sequels?

Personally I continue to ignore I have seen both the prequels as well as the first two sequels.

(Solo and Rouge One was kind of okay, but did not felt real to me either, so I leave them out of my personal cannon as well.)

 

I have lots of canons as I don't believe in restricting myself unnecessarily.

Some of my favorites are:

The Skywalker Saga: Ep 1-6
The Filoniverse: TCW + Rebels
The Stackpoleverse: Rogue Squadron novels
The Allstonverse: Wraith Squadron novels

Some crossreference others, some contradict others, they all have hundreds of nitpicky continuity errors that I could care less about. What matters to me is that they are all different storytellers' takes with great characters and fulfilled throughlines.

 

My canon is essentially just one large mishmash that contains the broadstrokes of all my favorite stories (while largely ignoring all the ones I don't) set inside the same universe. It likely doesn't hold up if I ever took the time to analyze it but I won't so that's not a problem.

 

I don't bother with the EU, but that's it.

 

I haven't seen anything in the animated works that I care to add to my headcanon. So far, The Mandalorian makes the cut.

 

No. Canon is canon. Head canon is for those so unsatisfied with a movie or a show in the saga that they pretend it doesn’t exist. I don’t particularly love TPM, AOTC or the SE versions but it’s still canon and I accept that.

 

I have many canons that conflict and contrast. I am large. I contain multitudes.

 

The better question would be if you're a real Star Wars fan if you don't.

 

I have a head cannon. Pointed at the moon

 

The six Lucas made films
The clone wars cartoons(with the first season of the microseries crammed into the first few months of the war, Anakin is knighted after the battle of Praestylin, Chistophis and the arrival of his passes is shortly after)
Rebels.
Mando show
All EU aka legends material that does not contradict the the above.

Nothing of the sequel trilogy or especially know after TROS and Last Jedi have invalidated the ending of Return of the Jedi