xhonzi said:
"He rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone."

Man, that is awesome. That's going in my sig.

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Yeah, he did capture it in a nutshell. For a while now I've been carefully meticulously hammering out the detailed theory equivalent of that statement. So much hinges on when Lucas decided to make the SE as the "definitive" version of the OT (as it's described in Star Wars Insider 23 in which the rumors of the SE are confirmed in 1994) -definitive as in it replaces the original. And we got the "Last chance to own the original" video campaign (in 1995) which told us the OOT was being replaced for all time. The OOT was kicked out of his canon, which in reverse kind of kicks the SE and the PT (which was made to be in continuity with the SE) out of the OOT's canon. It's a break in canon and continuity, loud and clear. Hayden Anakin and Jar Jar and all that just don't exist in the same universe as Han shooting first and nor does anything that's in continuity with them, like anything Lucas is doing now or does from now on. So for people who go by the OOT, all the prequels and more recent shit just doesnt happen and isn't real.