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Post #1315130

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ZkinandBonez
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What is your personal canon?
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28-Dec-2019, 3:35 PM

I’ve developed a really loose sense of canonicity recently. In general I simply like what I like, be it new canon or Legends, but obviously a lot of it is made specifically to fit within a larger narrative. I tend to think of a book, or animated series as being connected to specific “roots”. F.ex. I’ve been re-watching Rebels lately and apart from the obvious connections, that being the movies that preceded it, it’s clear that it’s a Filoni show and many of the narrative threads connect to Clone Wars. It also occurred to me that although characters from the show have showed up in the Marvel comics series, there hasn’t been any comic characters appearing in the animated series. F.ex. Hera showed up in an issue of Doctor Aphra, but Filoni couldn’t care less to bother to include Aphra in Rebels. So when I watch Rebels I only take CW, the OT and the PT into consideration. Although it technically belongs in the larger official EU, narrative-wise it belongs in its own little Filoni pocket universe that originated with the movies. And although I have no issues reading something like the Plagueis novel (which I really enjoyed btw), I do think there’s a certain charm to content from early in the various continuities, like the old Marvel comics, the EU novels in the 90’s before things got too complicated, or some of the new stuff that hasn’t had a chance to get bogged down yet. Having said that, even the Plagueis novel mostly just connects to the PT, the Darth Bane trilogy and Shadow Hunter. There’s subtle references to other EU stories, but they’re mostly just easter eggs, and it’s clear which stories the author intended to connect to it. Ideally a SW thing should work on its own, but often it does feel like each author adds his/her story to their own little pocket universes.

Maybe this is me over analyzing things, but I tend to always treat each SW things as its own thing (if possible) and I think more about its real-life context than its place in a larger continuity.