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#1045019
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What movies do you consider canon?
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I’m picking up a pervasive mindset here that the best way to go is to outright reject anything you don’t like, and I dig that that works for many of you, but I really don’t feel the need to do that with the current canon. I understand where you’re all coming from, because the NJO books absolutely didn’t jibe with what Star Wars is for me and I never felt comfortable “counting” them, but honestly nothing that’s official right now has been objectionable enough for me to cut it out. I know most of you aren’t keeping up with new books and/or comics (except maybe Haseo) and so you have little incentive to invest in the official version of canon, but one of the things I enjoy about Star Wars is that there’s always more of it, and part of that bargain is allowing the duds to exist on the timeline. I find it much easier to just acknowledge that AOTC happened even though it sucked than it is to perform the mental gymnastics required to make it all hang together when some comic references the events of that film. Doesn’t mean I’m going to start watching it all the time, but I’m fine with it occupying a point in the chronology. Part of what draws me to these sorts of sprawling sci-fi/fantasy epics is the convoluted history of it all; I get a certain amount of joy just from the way things fit together that’s separate from my opinion of the individual things. I guess what I’m trying to say is that rolling with the official canon doesn’t necessarily have to equal jumping through hoops to make yourself love everything Lucasfilm puts its stamp on.

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#1044044
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Drugs, ranked
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I like marijuana a lot and smoke it semi-regularly (and it’s legal here now!). Did LSD once a few years ago and really enjoyed it, but I’m in no hurry to do it again. Had cocaine a handful of times in college and was not a fan. Did salvia once and am glad for the experience, but I have no intention of going back there. Used to take adderall and ritalin when I had something big due for school, but it was strictly utilitarian and I’ve had no reason to take it since. I think that’s it. I feel like I’m past the point in my life where I’ve got any desire to try new drugs. I’d give shrooms a go under the right circumstances, though.

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#1043826
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What movies do you consider canon?
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I accept the broad strokes of the PT A.) because it makes following the comics easier and B.) because I’ve never been hugely invested in Anakin Skywalker’s story anyway, so it’s not like I have this elaborate personal canon that I prefer to the official version. I do my best to ignore details I find aesthetically offensive like R2’s ability to fly and Yoda’s use of a lightsaber (this is made easier by fan edits), but on a macro level my attitude toward the prequels is less “no, that’s no the true, that’s impossible!” and more “yeah, whatever, ok”.

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#1043790
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What happened to the Myth?
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Oh come on. The Knights of Ren, the Guardians of the Whills, the whole significance of Kyber crystals, a lot of the stuff in the new EU right now about the long-term significance of Jakku, questions concerning what the hell Snoke actually is (admittedly this could turn out lame, but for now I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt for being mysterious), Luke’s quest for the birthplace of the Jedi, the deemphasis of the Sith, these things are all much more mythologically satisfying than anything since Yoda’s speeches about the Force in ESB. Yeah, the first two movies were the best, but the idea that the Disney era films have totally lost sight of this kind of thing that a lot of people are espousing just isn’t true. It’s all miles ahead of the “twenty-five thousand years of Jedi vs. Sith” that it’s replacing.

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#1038964
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Opening Crawl for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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I know we’ll pick up right where we left off in terms of time, but there’s no reason to the film has to begin with Luke and Rey on Ahch-to. I wouldn’t be surprised if we go fifteen or twenty minutes before we actually pick up that thread. I think it’s more likely we start with the traditional pan from crawl to spaceship and then check in with Leia and Poe and Finn and maybe even Snoke and Hux and Kylo before we get our first taste of Rey and Luke interaction.

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#1037487
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Can Someone Explain the Map to Luke Skywalker?
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I really despise the “R2 downloading the map from the Death Star” explanation. My headcanon is that Luke intended for Lor San Tekka to bring Rey into the fold at some point like Obi-Wan did with Luke and send her to Leia with the map. R2 was programmed to wake up when Rey registered on whatever sensors he’s got going on while he’s in standby mode, hence why he only comes to life when Rey arrives on D’Qar. Lor San Tekka entrusts the map to Poe at the beginning of the film because he sees that the shit is about to hit the fan, and either he wasn’t aware Rey’s presence being necessary for R2 to work or he intended to reach out to her after the fact and send her to the Resistance if Kylo hadn’t killed him. It isn’t airtight, but it makes some amount of sense for Tekka to ditch the original plan to keep the map out of enemy hands.