Tobar said:
If you wanna go down that route, then the way a lot of people look at is that the EU is like a series of history books. Since all of this happened a long time ago and no one living today was there, the retellings of the stories of what went on won't always be 100% accurate. Something along those lines anyway. He's never said that what happened in the EU happened, in fact when explaining the different canons he explicitly states that what happens in the EU doesn't have anything to do with what happens in his.
Right, those are exactly the things I was making fun of in my post. The great lengths fans will go through to make the illigit EU ligit despite the fact that it contradicts or is contradicted by other EU or "official" works. Or how George Lucas' people make up different "levels" of canon, so that eventually everything is canon.
And I know George never said that what happened in the EU happened, but yet he liscensed out the property and makes money off of it, then turns around and says to all the fans who are giving him money, These stories you are reading never really happened, just silly stuff people make up to make me more rich. Feels like he wants all the money from pimping the series out, but also wants it to remain soley his. Kind of like a man prostituting his wife out because he loves the money it brings in, but then deludes himself saying she is only his. I guess I just find the whole EU thing kind of twisted. It either is canon or it isn't, otherwise the whole purpose of canon is lost.