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Post #1404155

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sade1212
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Approaching Star Wars canon
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18-Jan-2021, 7:28 PM

Yeah, I agree with doubleofive here; I’m pretty sure this is how it is already. Hence “Legends” rather than “NON-CANON”, and lots of elements already being adapted into canon from it. It’s much like the relationship between Marvel Comics and the MCU in a way, except Legends is no longer having official content produced for it outside of SWTOR.

You talk about headcanon becoming more important, but headcanon is already the most important canon. This is, after all, a website for the preservation of the theatrical cuts of the Original Trilogy: I’m sure most of our headcanons exclude Han meeting Jabba on Tatooine in ANH and stepping on his tail; or Joh Yowza performing “Jedi Rocks” at Jabba’s Palace in ROTJ. Beyond that, it’s a fanediting website even; a community of people who significantly alter the movies themselves - beyond the extent of just despecialisation - to better fit their headcanon.

It’s all fictional anyway so you can choose whatever you want to consider canon when consuming Star Wars media (or, more extreme, do what some fanfiction writers do, and come up with your own version of what you think should happen, entirely divorced from any official material!). Official canon is just for Lucasfilm to worry about when they’re making new stuff. We’ve seen they’re not afraid to bring in plenty of stuff from Legends; or even outright copy Legends reference book material into canon with minor adjustments.

Part of me wishes the canon separation had occurred earlier, because TCW Seasons 1-6 being Legends canon was quite disruptive to the previously existing ~2003-2007 Clone Wars stories that had been told, and characters like Ahsoka just awkwardly never show up again in the Legends timeline. Consequently, when I’m consuming older Legends material (like the ROTS novelisation) I just ignore that TCW is Legends canon entirely. At least modern Lucasfilm cares more about franchise-wide timeline consistency than Lucas himself ever did.