[News] Disney Buying Lucasfilm, Plans New Star Wars Movie

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AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Reverent-one said:
What? No. Movies beat everything and the TV show beats everything else, yes, but after that, everything else is pretty much equal. Unless it's been retconed or otherwise declared non-canon (the What If comics for example). The form of media for C-canon material (which is "all recent works (and many older works) released under the name of Star Wars: books, comics, games, cartoons, non-theatrical films, and more") has nothing to do with canon precedence.
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I know the big games from the Star Wars line (KotOR 1 & 2, The Old Republic) and all their associated novels are generally considered by Lucas to carry higher canon than most other things because of sheer exposure and because of their impact on the franchise (exploring a time he never really touched on). For instance, there was a time when Darth Revan was going to make an appearance on the Clone Wars show in an episode about Anakin learning about former Darkside masters. Revan also got an action figure at one point (and it's still going for a decent price), as well as Darth Nihlus.

Shadows of the Empire is also generally considered canon, despite taking place during the original movies, because it's events really don't change how the movies play out. It got a comic and toy series as well, including recent reprints of the comics included with special themed action figures a while back.
 
Reverent-one

Reverent-one

AshburnerX said:
I know the big games from the Star Wars line (KotOR 1 & 2, The Old Republic) and all their associated novels are generally considered by Lucas to carry higher canon than most other things because of sheer exposure and because of their impact on the franchise (exploring a time he never really touched on). For instance, there was a time when Darth Revan was going to make an appearance on the Clone Wars show in an episode about Anakin learning about former Darkside masters. Revan also got an action figure at one point (and it's still going for a decent price), as well as Darth Nihlus.
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It's still on the same level of canon as most of the books, comic books, and other media. Some of the games may have more points that Lucas likes to reference than some other EU sources (though it's not like Lucas has had a chance to use any of the post-ROTJ material, since he hasn't done anything past that point), but that would just be because Lucas likes those individual points, not that games in general are higher canon. Lucas pulls out whichever elements he likes (like Coruscant, Aayla Secura, swoop bikes) from the EU regardless of what type of media it's from.

Shadows of the Empire is also generally considered canon, despite taking place during the original movies, because it's events really don't change how the movies play out. It got a comic and toy series as well, including recent reprints of the comics included with special themed action figures a while back.
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Well, yeah, it is canon, like most of the rest of the EU. C-canon to be specific.
 
sixpackshaker

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Actually, it is the other way around. Jaxxon is from a group of the first EU characters in Star Wars #8, the first comic that did not deal with the film.

And Lucas asked Marvel to never use him again. Besides, he was kind of a rip off of Bugs Bunny.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I think it's strange that he objects to the green rabbit guy in a space suit, but the naked otter people in The Old Republic are totally okay. And the cat girls... oh god the cat girls...
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

sixpackshaker said:
But all the great EU stuff got flushed when they made him a whiny, twerp of a clone.
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Yet another reason to despise the prequels. It also made the Clone Wars into something really really boring, and have the silliest title for a movie of all time. "Attack of the clones" I would yell that all the time in 6th grade cos of how silly it sounded.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Sadly he's pretty amazing in the EU, he even crawls out of and kills the Sarlacc, becomes Mandalore and helps take down the Darth that Han's kid becomes. Problem is none of this matters for the movies, so he's basically some jerk in a neat helmet who gets knocked into a living pit by a blind guy.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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CynicismKills said:
Sadly he's pretty amazing in the EU, he even crawls out of and kills the Sarlacc
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According to the "A Barve Like That..." short story from the same collection as the one I linked about the rancor (Tales from Jabba's Palace), he didn't kill it so much as return every year or so to fire his ship's thrusters down into the sarlacc, repeatedly torturing it but leaving it alive.
 
North_Ranger

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sixpackshaker said:
Hopefully they will delve into the good parts of the EU, with all those films.
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Considering that there are detailed background stories for every damn character you see in the Mos Eisley cantina scene, I'm not sure they can avoid running into some pretty heavy concentrations of turd.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I remember reading in this Star Wars book: Tales from the Canteena that there was a werewolf X-wing pilot. There are werewolves in Star Wars....why the fuck didn't this make it into the cartoon? GIVE ME MY JEDI WEREWOLF!
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Yoshimickster said:
I remember reading in this Star Wars book: Tales from the Canteena that there was a werewolf X-wing pilot. There are werewolves in Star Wars....why the fuck didn't this make it into the cartoon? GIVE ME MY JEDI WEREWOLF!
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Tales from the Cantina are meant to be rumors and stories shared that aren't canonically true. Tales from the Cantina also claims that there was a droid jedi, the astromech that Luke originally picked (that blew up)
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Ravenpoe said:
Tales from the Cantina are meant to be rumors and stories shared that aren't canonically true. Tales from the Cantina also claims that there was a droid jedi, the astromech that Luke originally picked (that blew up)
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Skippy the Jedi Droid by Peter David.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I dunno, 2-3 Star Wars movies a year? I know it's hard to tarnish the brand even more, but yikes...

I'm starting to think that the Avengers may not have been as good a thing as I thought, industry wise.

If it keeps going in this direction, we may be looking at movies interconnecting on the same scale as comics and we all know how great it is to have to buy 10 different titles just to know what's going on in one crossover event. This may not bode well.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I actually used to own the comic that panel is taken from.

Grumble...grumble, stupid ex getting rid of my comic collection.
 
Just Me

Just Me

There'll be Darth Vader and in the end he'll figure out that he was dead and a ghost all the time and will go happily to meet with Yoda and Obi Wan.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Maybe they'll bring in a Darth Vader robot! Which believe it or not, was originally what his twist was going to be. That he was a robot. This is why giving George complete control is a bad idea.
 
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