What is your personal canon? — Page 9

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Yeah, I also tend to have a tier-like system for organizing various parts of the franchise.

1st tier: The original trilogy (either theatrical or Revisited)
2nd tier: The prequel trilogy (Hal9000 edits)
3rd tier: Rogue One, Solo, Mandalorian, certain episodes of Clone Wars, and future live action shows
4th tier: Any other stuff that I happen to like

Like with many others, the sequels are in a bit of a weird spot for me. I genuinely like TLJ, and I can enjoy TFA and TROS as big dumb fanservice flicks, but I just can’t accept them as being the “true” conclusion to the story. I can tolerate them much more when separated from the rest of the franchise. Also, I genuinely can’t stand Rebels, and if the live action shows end up being impossible to separate from that storyline it would be a real shame.

I realized that the way I described my personal Canon in my previous post was a bit oversimplified and not very specific, so I have decided to put together a detailed list of all the stories that are part of my personal Canon in chronological order.

• Dawn of the Jedi (comics)
• Tales of the Jedi (comics)
• Knights of the Old Republic (comics)
• Knights of the Old Republic I
• The Old Republic: Revan
• Knights of the Old Republic II
• The Old Republic: Deceived
• The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (original game)
• The Old Republic: Annihilation
• Knight Errant: Aflame
• Knight Errant (novel)
• Knight Errant: Deluge
• Knight Errant: Escape
• The Darth Bane Trilogy
• Darth Plagueis (novel)
• Jedi: The Dark Side
• Jedi Apprentice (series)
• Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: The Aurorient Express
• Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: The Last Stand on Ord Mantell
• Maul: Lockdown
• Tales: Nameless
• Jedi Council: Acts of War
• Darth Maul (comics)
• Republic comics (Issues 1—6)
• Darth Maul: Saboteur
• Cloak of Deception
• Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
• Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Jango Fett: Open Seasons
• Republic comics (Issues 7-48)
• Bounty Hunter (video game)
• Rogue Planet
• Jedi Quest (series)
• Outbound Flight
• The Approaching Storm
• Episode II: Attack of the Clones
• Boba Fett (series)
• Republic Commando (video game)
• The Clone Wars (2002 video game)
• Republic comics (Issues 49-83)
• The Cestus Deception
• Clone Wars (micro-series): Chapter 6-7
• Republic Commando: Hard Contact
• Jedi (conic series)
• Shatterpoint
• Republic Commando: Triple Zero
• Republic Commando: True Colors
• Clone Wars (micro-series): Chapters 1–5/Chapters 8-21
• The MedStar Duology
• Secrets of the Jedi
• General Grievous (comics)
• Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
• Obsession (comics)
• Brothers in Arms
• Labyrinth of Evil
• Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
• Kenobi (novel)
• Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
• Star Wars: Purge (comic series)
• Star Wars: Dark Times (series)
• Darth Vader and the Lost Command
• Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison
• Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin
• The Coruscant Nights Trilogy
• The Last of the Jedi (series)
• The Last Jedi (novel)
• Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows
• The Han Solo Trilogy
• The Force Unleashed (novelization)
• Death Star (novel)
• Extinction (comic)
• Empire (comics)
• Episode IV: A New Hope
• Dark Forces
• Rebellion (comics)
• Scoundrels
• Rebel Force (series)
• Allegiance
• Choices of One
• Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
• Shadows of the Empire
• Mara Jade: By the Emperor’s Hand
• Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
• The Truce at Bakura
• Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
• The X-Wing series
• The Courtship of Princess Leia
• Tatooine Ghost
• The Thrawn Trilogy
• The Dark Empire Trilogy
• The Crimson Empire Trilogy
• The Jedi Academy Trilogy
• Jedi Academy: Leviathan
• Jedi Outcast
• Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
• The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy
• The New Rebellion
• The Hand of Thrawn Duology
• Star Wars: Union
• Survivor’s Quest
• Junior Jedi Knights (series)
• Young Jedi Knights (series)
• The New Jedi Order (series)
• Legacy (series)

Original unaltered trilogy
Thrawn trilogy of books
Holiday special

I really don’t get too caught up on what’s canon, and what’s not. And even if I don’t consider something in my personal canon does not mean I refuse to watch it. There are things about the other movies I really like (specifically TFA, which I would include if it didn’t contradict Heir to the Empire). This is just the stuff I consider to be the main story(and the best content) in my head. I’m yet to delve into more of the EU, but from what I’ve read, I anticipate liking it.

Ooh, maybe the Muppet show episode too

The entire “Legends” timeline.

Movies, comics, novels, TV and all.

EDIT: Wrong thread

Servii said:

I don’t really have a strict personal canon. For me, it’s more like “tiers” of canon, like what we used to have with the old EU. So here are my “tiers”:

A-tier: Unaltered Original Trilogy
B-tier: Prequel Trilogy, Special Editions, Movie Novelizations/Radio Dramas
C-tier: Good Expanded Universe stories
D-tier: Bad Expanded Universe stories
E-tier: Fan films/fiction

Disney canon is a separate entity, in my mind.

Much the same, though I’d place the novelizations in C-tier or their own tier.

I’m new to the forum, so I’m not sure where my take falls, but outside a few wins I’m really not a fan of what Disney has done with Star Wars. I was always a big lover of the EU; so my personal canon is really just ‘Legends’ and as much of TCW as can be fit without contradiction the original Clone Wars media project I grew up with.

I totally agree with that. I don’t like at all what Disney has done so far too, except for Rogue One (though I still don’t consider it strictly Canon). I also agree about TCW. I much prefer the Clone Wars Multimedia Project over TCW too.

The radio dramas are a good start. Episode III kind of fits in. I and II can work as spin-offs. And the sequel trilogy doesn’t count. Legends or Bust!

Moved from headcanon thread to here

This surely breaks up quite a bit of continuity.

paja said:

Moved from headcanon thread to here

This surely breaks up quite a bit of continuity.

I don’t think it makes much sense. I mean, if you don’t want to accept the Prequel Trilogy as it is, then you could accept the Attack of the Clones novelization as Episode I, then Labyrinth of Evil as Episode II and the Revenge of the Sith novelization as Episode III, plus the Clone Wars Multimedia Project. But accepting the Clone Wars Multimedia Project and at the same time TCW and The Bad Batch makes no sense, there are too many contradictions between these things.

EDIT: Never mind.

I sort of see the saga as having different “timelines.”

So for example, there’s the OT timeline which is just the OT, another is the OT and the Ewok movies. One has the PT, and the altered variants of the OT. One variant of that includes The Clone Wars (2008). Another variant is only altered OT + Solo.

Now for my “personal canon” I see it this way:
The Clone Wars (2008), Solo, custom altered OT, Ewoks.

I’ve also got one I like to use for EU stories I enjoy and it is as follows:
Custom altered OT, The Han Solo adventures by Brian Daley, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, Shadows of the Empire, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, The Jedi Academy Trilogy (?).

I don’t really like the idea of canon, I tend to just focus on what I do enjoy and pair it up with whatever fits thematically if that makes sense.

I still don’t have a personal canon. But if I did, it would include everything released 1976-1998, starting with the publication of the SW novelization, ending with the Hand of Thrawn duology. No prequels, no Yuuzhan Vong, no Darth Caedus or Krayt, and no Disney. Only Star Wars at its most organic and varied (though no less commercialized or messy).