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⌈ Secret Post #5443 ⌋

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[philstar22]

I wasn't defending the sequels. I don't like all the new canon material. But good or bad, it is canon. And no matter how amazing the EU was, Lucas was always clear that it wasn't canon.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

I don't agree with AYRT at all, and I agree with your basic statement - the books are still there, and it doesn't matter whether or not they're canon, you can read them and enjoy them just the same whether they're canon or whether they're not canon.

But the idea that the EU wasn't canon is not strictly speaking true. It was always the case that things from the Star Wars EU were less canon than other things - it was understood that anything George said would supercede anything from the EU, and it was always possible that George would come back and rewrite everything and it would stop being canon entirely if he did that. But it was understood that there were multiple levels of canon. EU stuff was not as canon as the films were, but it was still canon of a sort until and unless it was superceded. It wasn't non-canon in the way that, for example, the Star Trek novels were, where they were completely non-canon and meaningless and could wildly contradict each other and even contradict the actual TV series and no one cared because the rules were made up and the points didn't matter. The EU books were intended to be part of a single fictional universe which was intended to be, and presented as, part of the same canon as the original films. That's the way that it was understood at the time, IE, in the 1990s.

Of course that doesn't mean that getting rid of the EU was in any way wrong. Because it was always a possibility that it would happen, and the movies always came first, and that's fine, and anyway if you really like the EU it's still there, you can just read the books the same as you could before. But their status as canon did actually change when the new movies came out. It's a minor distinction and of course it doesn't matter very much in the grand scheme of the universe, but it is what happened.