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| Father Tier (What the Holocron considers G and T-level canon) This is the movies and all the tv projects Lucas has personally worked on. ie The Holiday Special and The Clone Wars... Apparently Clone Wars stopped being his project when the 2nd incarnation came along. The Father Tier is considered what you're calling Canon in this case. |
Not the Holiday Special, though. Given GL's carte blanche, he of course has to option to disregard something he disowns, and reportedly didn't have a lot to do with anyway. Last we heard, the Special resided at the lower end of the Son Tier, EU pillar, or S-canon.
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| But the levels that we get hung up on. Those are just an internal tracking system... nothing more. |
That is oversimplified. The levels still play a role in discrepancy resolution beyond the GL/non-GL dichotomy you present. Furthermore, it follows the Lucas Tier or Pillar system precisely, but is even more detailed and flexible, so it isn't really a matter of fans mistakly thinking the Holocron levels are it, when the Lucas Pillars are where it is really at. It is a matter of the two of them being two different ways to look at the same ting, at least for continuity purposes.
In broad strokes, I agree with you, though. The most important continuity is the one that is defined by being GL or non-GL, and the TCW troubles reflect that importance. And as such, I can excuse you for putting empahsis on this distinction over the Holocron levels. But since they are the same, except where the fanfics and fanfilms are concerned, I don't agree that one can be said to be just for tracking, while the other defines canon. There would be no point in tracking continuity in different ways if that difference didn't have any impact on discrepancy resolution.
Also, under the Holocron system, the EU can retcon the Father pillar away in favor of the Son pillar, even though it happens very rarely.
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Another fun fact: Star Wars canon was first defined in the first issue of the Lucasfilm magazine, Star Wars Insider:
"'Gospel,' or canon as we refer to it, includes the screenplays, the films, the radio dramas and the novelizations. These works spin out of George Lucas' original stories, the rest are written by other writers. However, between us, we've read everything, and much of it is taken into account in the overall continuity. The entire catalog of published works comprises a vast history—with many off-shoots, variations and tangents—like any other well-developed mythology."
Holy SITH! It actually says that the novelizations counted. (unless they only were referring to the film novelizations but they didn't say that.) But as with Lucas he has since retconed what he put in place back then. |
Quite right. This statement was made by the old guard of continuity trackers. When Leland came aboard in 2000, things got a lot stricter than they had been. Continuity before Chee apparently consisted of yelling down the hall if someone knew the question the creator was asking for over the phone. Leland also decanonized a lot of the stuff here thought of as gospel, proabably because they fit so poorly with the PT. _________________ I discuss to learn, not to win. Then again, learning enough tends to translate to victory in the end anyway.
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