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| Baloo wrote: |
Hasn't Lucas been quoted multiple times though that he plays off the entire EU as a sort of parallel universe?
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| I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions. |
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| "I've left pretty explicit instructions for there not to be any more features. There will definitely be no Episodes VII–IX. That's because there isn't any story. I mean, I never thought of anything. And now there have been novels about the events after Episode VI, which isn't at all what I would have done with it. The Star Wars story is really the tragedy of Darth Vader. That is the story. Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married..." |
So then...what's the problem with personal canon if Lucas obviously doesn't view it as the end-all be-all, totally part of the Star Wars universe and up to the levels of the movies? |
Lucas has been quoted saying many things, mostly conflicting when it comes to canon. But int he end Personal Canon is the same level as N-level canon. GL's not caring about the EU isn't 100% the problem. the problem in this case is that something made by GL then gets shoveled into all the new EU materials. Over and over again. And then there's the fact that he HAS gotten involved with the direction of the book and comic's plots in the past- even though he's been quoted as not doing so. As with canon GL quotes are only as good as long as a new one doesn't come out.
Going to an extreme as an example of how it works; if GL decided to put into TCW Han Solo- and then decides to have Han lose a whole arm- and gets it replaced with a human replica one, (think of the Hobbie example given earlier) then all references created after that point would find a way to reference this- which could be ok, but they tend to never explain the previous lack of mentions in any ways that make sense. They could leave it alone and leave it an unspoken thing - but they hardly do.
Another mild example- TCW gives Mace an R8 droid- R8 droids did not exist at this timeframe. (there were sources that had the histories of the R series droids) The simple solution would have been to recognize that droids have long serial numbers and their "R2" "R8" titles are nicknames R2D2C43R81138B
But they haven't because that could be seen as infringing on what GL provided in TCW- but the real rub- GL probably had nothing to do with Mace having an "R8" droid. GL's stamp is all over THIS series. even if he only works on a few episodes.
Personal Canon works as a coping mechanism, but it won't work for Fandom because few 2 Personal Canons will see it the same.
Now if each level of canon could exist without being overrode or changed by another level then that would be better still. But as long as the EU continues to shift to what ever the new arc brings to the table on TCW there will be an opening for older material to be overrode.
We have talked about AU's being confusing- but I have to ask- isn't what's happened to Alpha confusing? Or Asajj in Betrayal?
The only thing I can think of where they left an EU thing mostly alone through a play of words is Aurra Sing- she's lost her Force Sensitivity in TCW- but they just decided to go with "you won't see her use the Force in TCW" So there is an example of them doing it right, but they didn't continue that. Mandalore- Ryloth- there are no "Official" fixes to what they have done there- and until they do there is potential for disaster- at present they are leaving it alone and letting fans come up with retcons of their own. And to me that process is confusing. It seems so senseless.
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