darklordoftech said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Canon should be for religion*, not for fictional franchises.
*And even that's questionable.
Correct. Fictional canon is the worst thing to ever happen to fiction.
I agree 100%. I personally don't care what they retcon because I only consider things I don't find ridiculous to be canon, so it's a lot different than what is officially considered canon. For example, I had all kinds of ideas in my head about what happened to Anakin before he was Darth Vader etc. etc. and then I saw the prequels... Basically, I don't consider the prequels canon, no matter what Disney says about them being the "immovable pillars of the saga" or whatever. Also, Scream 3 had a really terrible ending that I felt ruined the ending of the first movie if you consider them both canon, so I don't consider that part of Scream 3 canon. Something I've noticed about TF.N and Wookiepedia people is that they almost seem obsessed with what is and isn't canon, almost like they think they aren't allowed to like things that aren't canon, it's kind of depressing really that people feel like they can't enjoy something that isn't officially recognized as part of the "saga". I personally don't blame Disney for not wanting to be beholden to all the expanded universe material, they did the retcon just to cover their tracks because they know their future movies are going to be much different.
To be fair, I've never read a Star Wars book before (except for the 1976 "Star Wars" book based on Lucas's script, but that doesn't really count) so maybe if I was actually interested in the EU I'd feel differently about all this.