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Johnboy3434
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Hypothetical: What would you KEEP?
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20-May-2009, 1:20 AM

I think a more interesting question would be, "Would you adhere to all the EU continuity established pre-PT?" What upsets me far more than GL's less-than-stellar (though not as execrable as a lot of people here think) trilogy of films is the way he pissed left and right over the hard work of the people who kept Star Wars alive during the inter-trilogy period.

I'm not a fan of retcons, even of stories that themselves retconned other, because I believe that if you're not good enough to work around what your peers have done with a given franchise, you shouldn't be writing for that franchise at all. But if we have to redo the PT, I would wipe out any and all of it and start from scratch, not out of hatred for it, but simply for the sake of originality. However, I would treat as continuity every workable scrap of EU from September 1977 to December 1998, as the first EU story (Marvel's Star Wars #7) was published in the former month and the first PT-related story (Dark Horse's Republic #0) was published in the latter month. This fits nicely, as the last thing published before this was the final issue of my favorite EU comic series, Tales of the Jedi. Special exceptions would be made for series still in production at that point (Crimson Empire II, Star Wars Missions, etc.), but canon as far as the production team was concerned would pretty much end there.

This would also work nicely for the eventual ST, as the galaxy-shattering Yuuzhan Vong War was still several months away at said cut-off point. The death of Chewbacca and the huge ramifications of the post-war environment would be extremely difficult to simply gloss over in the films, assuming we kept with the apparent date of 30+ years ABY for the ST that Bantam was never allowed to go beyond prior to the "6-film vision".

Yes, I realize this post was a total geek-out. What of it?