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Re: SW set list for 2000
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Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:45:16 GMT
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Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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> Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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> > 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:
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> 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".
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> 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".
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> 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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