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Star Wars Universe / Re: Do you accept everything as Canon or do you pick and choose?
« on: June 10, 2011, 01:37 PM »
I always liked the idea proposed by Robert Brown (the "Millennium Falcon : Ship of Mysteries" guy) :
That the films be taken as a (fictional) "History".
And then everything else be taken as legend, "based on a true story", or "inspired by true events"
So I can rationalize: of course Luke started a Jedi academy after the Battle of Endor. But Hutts never "really" stole a Death Star gun and flew it around the galaxy. That's just one of hack holo-drama producer Jander Son-Nikev's stupid embellishments.
This mind frame allows me to accept the "existence" of Mara Jade and Thrawn without losing sleep over the events on which Zahn couldn't outguess George's prequels.
I guess this take on SW is like LFL's "levels of canon", but more individualized.
George's Films are like "Tora, Tora, Tora," where KJA is making "Pearl Harbor."
doug
That the films be taken as a (fictional) "History".
And then everything else be taken as legend, "based on a true story", or "inspired by true events"
So I can rationalize: of course Luke started a Jedi academy after the Battle of Endor. But Hutts never "really" stole a Death Star gun and flew it around the galaxy. That's just one of hack holo-drama producer Jander Son-Nikev's stupid embellishments.
This mind frame allows me to accept the "existence" of Mara Jade and Thrawn without losing sleep over the events on which Zahn couldn't outguess George's prequels.
I guess this take on SW is like LFL's "levels of canon", but more individualized.
George's Films are like "Tora, Tora, Tora," where KJA is making "Pearl Harbor."
doug