Originally posted by: yemenmocha
Yes that was the FAQ I needed thanks.

Basically my dispute with a friend boils down to me accepting the movies as the only true canon whereas she reads and memorizes all of the expanded universe fictional stuff and then "takes the high ground" and proclaims herself a more knowledgeable star wars fan. How lame. Oh well.

If she enjoys the EU that much, let her. The whole point of fiction is entertainment, if someone is entertained by it then it is doing its job. I think the EU is a pretty tangled web, but there are some things about it I really like. There are many, many parts I would rather take as "canon" than parts of the PT. Like Jaster Mareel (sp?) for instance. I thought his story was much more interesting than Ep. II's origins tell, the stuff from the story in Tales of the Bounty Hunters is a lot more convincing, I mean, who would actually name their child Boba (or Jango for that matter. The Fett family much contain generation and generations of really silly names, I bet each generation tries to out do the previous one and name there kids even more silly and embarrassing things).

Anyway, EU can be fun. When it is fun it is totally worth it, but when it is not fun it is time to put the book down. I have seen fans force feed themselves this crap (even when they are not enjoying it) just because it has the SW name on it and they feel they should know/read/see everything Star Wars to be a "real" fan.