CANNON BACKFIRE!!! - Chefelf.com Night Life

this is comming up here and there, and rather than leave it as a scattered argument, i wanted to fortify it here.

the thing that is really weak here is george lucas' inconsistant attitude towards the EU. first he'll put his seal of approval on something to make it officially part of the SW galaxy, then he'll deride it later by disprooving it.

so you're left in a situation where he never seems to be accountable for anything...

if part of the movies don't make sense, then it's suddenly the viewers fault for not adequatley exploring the vastly Expanded Universe. but then when the movies suddenly contradict well accepted and approved material from the Encyclopedia Expanded Universe, suddenly it's not cannon.

and gushers will return with their catch-cry: "it's Lucas' universe, he can do with it as he pleases"

which of course is bullshit. he should have never shown us something he didn't feel was complete... it's quite a cycle they defend...
GL makes a trilogy we love, our love pays for it, he uses that money to destroy it and tell us we were wrong for loving the "incomplete versions"

and gushers seem fine defending that point... and good for them...

but honestly, it is fair enough that he picks and chooses who's work gets to be part of his universe, but to periodically switch their validity light on and off if is childish and irrisponsible.

i think this is a core problem that really needs to be adressed more often in the ever continuing debate about what is acceptable practice in filmmaking and what is shit people should get blacklisted for...

SW has become like a game of AD&D with a really unorganised DM... who just keeps throwing stuff in to try and confuse us...

QUOTE (barend @ Jun 19 2005, 10:02 PM)

the thing that is really weak here is george lucas' inconsistant attitude towards the EU. first he'll put his seal of approval on something to make it officially part of the SW galaxy, then he'll deride it later by disprooving it.

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That's really the crux of it. Prior to the PT we were told that only the movies were cannon and that the EU was just that - an expansion that fell into the whims and desires of other artists. When the PT included EU material it changed that persepective again with some of the EU becoming cannon and other parts still being excluded.

If you read soem of the EU material then apparently it will help you to explain some of the percieved inconsistencies that have developed, but even that seems speculative. If you don't read a great deal of the EU then you are left to fend for yourself.