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Post #1289916

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ChainsawAsh
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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22-Jul-2019, 4:31 PM

MikeWW said:

ChainsawAsh said:

What? No he didn’t. Ewan isn’t featured in the SE in any way, shape, or form. He was in the PT, and the ST also references Darth Sidious, which is another PT invention. I’ve made my peace with the PT through fan edits, so these things are fine with me.

And Alec Guinness is in TFA too, in the same line as Ewan. (Guinness says “Rey” and Ewan says “these are your first steps.”) So I really don’t understand your point with Ewan’s TFA line.

And I don’t give two shits what is officially canon or not. The OOT works with zero problems with the ST. Until something appears in an ST film that only works because of an SE change, either version of the OT is on equal footing canon wise, and I choose the original version.

I…? Ewan McGregor played Hayden Christensen’s master.

Yeah, so? How does that make Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan have anything to do with the SE’s? The OOT works just as well in the context of the prequels as the SE’s do, whether it’s Shaw or Christensen as the ghost or not. I have no idea where you’re getting the idea that “Ewan voicing one line as Obi-Wan in TFA means Christensen’s ghost is canon and Shaw’s can’t be.”

And I’m pretty sure Disney has never outright said that the SE is canon and the OOT isn’t, just that the original trilogy itself is canon. Which means whichever version of the OT you prefer works as the “canon” version for you. If you can point me to an official Disney source that says the SE is the canon version, go right ahead. But that’s irrelevant to me either way so long as the ST plays it neutral.

I say again: any aspect of the ST that unambiguously makes the SE the only canon version of the OT will make me write off the entire ST. Full stop. That includes Christensen playing Ghost Anakin.