Anchorhead said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This is why I don't adhere to the principle of canon -- if I had to accept every aspect of any given fictional universe as "real", I'd never be able to like or enjoy any of them at all.

Agreed. Strongly. That's why I have Personal Canon. I follow what works and what interests me. I ignore the rest. It's just noise.

Your statement is also why I believe the TFNers have such a hard time with all of this. Star Wars of the 1970s was never intended to be anything other than the first story. That's been proven multiple times and is well documented. It was presented as an open & shut story. No Original Vision, no Saga telling the rise & fall of one of the secondary members of the military.

The two sets of films simply do not work as one story. No amount of imagination or revisionist lying can change that. Even the pretzel logic of Lucas *genuflect* and his multiple attempts at revision haven't been able to make sense of the mess. All he's done is create a deeply divided fan base. A fan base that seems more often than not to be at war with the story itself.

To borrow from John Daggett in The Dark Knight Rises; "It didn't work, my friend".

Well I think it worked beautifully.