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Originally posted by: Pagz
The Star Wars Canon hierarchy:
The Movies: Supercede all
The Novelizations of the movies: If it's not specifically mentioned or contradicted in the film, it's canon.
The Radio Dramas: If it is not specifically mentioned or contradicted in the movies or the books, it's cannon.
The end
Expended Universe is not considered canon.
My rule of thumb about canon (albeit one that can't hold up in an argument at all, so I don't press it) is that I pick and choose what I want to accept and what I don't. Now, it sounds stupid, but I keep it to myself and try to stay out of canon debates whenever I come across them. I also don't deny that certain things happened in the books that I don't agree with, though I do accept the movies entirely, just because there's no way around it.
I even have a sketchy vision of an alternate prequel trilogy that is open to my imagination. So I don't exactly pretend like things never happened, you see.BTW, what happened to Erich? His page is dead, and I was looking forward to reading more of his insights after returning from vacation.