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Re: SW set list for 2000
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Date: 
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:45:16 GMT
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Shaun Sullivan wrote:
> 
> Mike Petrucelli wrote:
> > 
> > George Luscas has a team of people that do nothing but insure that all
> > the movies, books, comics, and even the plots of the computer games fit
> > into a complete non-contradictory and interlaced story.  For example, SW
> > ep.4 special edition had the "outrider" fly out of Mos Eisly as Luke and
> > Obi-wan get there in the speeder.  The "outrider" was only ever seen in
> > a comic book before that.  Bottom line: whether or not we like it the
> > books and comics are unlike Star Trek stuff, considered canon. (canon
> > refers to occurances in the ficticous universe that are regarded as fact
> > within that universe and cannot be contradicted.)

> Actually, I'm pretty sure that almost none of the sources outside of the
> movies are considered canon.  Refer to the following article:
> 
> http://www.theforce.net/swtc/continuity.html

All of this merely referes to the order of precedence in the event of a
contradiction.  If a movie doesn't contradict it then it happened.  That
is the basic definition of cannon.

The order of precedence being:  Movies, radio-drama/novelisations,
continuation books, and comics.

> Note that "novelisations" refers to novelisations of the movies, not the
> extended-galaxy novels put out by pulp authors.  Even shadows of the
> Empire, which did seem to take great pains to be continuous with the
> Star Wars chronolgy, is not "canon".
> 
> Specifically, examples are provided where some of the novels and comics
> directly conflict with canon (movie) sources, including:  "Splinter of
> the Mind's Eye, some of the North American Marvel comic series and the
> Droids cartoons and comics".
> 
> Furthermore, I've read some interviews with George Lucas, and it is
> painfully clear that he does not personally follow all of the material
> attributed to the Star Wars galaxy.  Indeed, it almost seems as if he
> doesn't really care what others are doing/writing/saying, as long as
> they have obtained permission to do so.

Then why would be paying a team to keep contradictions as low a possible
and have added a ship to a scene in special edition.

> And that's all of the information, useful or not, I can contribute.   :)
> 
> shaun

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