He replied with reference to the GCSN Holocron concept:I was wondering if you had any public/private opinion on the canon thing these days.
Thanks in advance!
(There was no mention of whether the statements were to be considered private as opposed to public, either, hence my use of them here. )You mean things like ICS? Sadly canon. Although being a level under the movies themselves making it entirely possible to contradict elements of it on a case by case basis.
Trek canon is pretty stagnant.
I replied:
Alyeska's response:I take it, then, that you reject the parallel universe concept espoused by Lucas in 2001, more strongly in 2002, and devastatingly in 2005, rejecting also the confirmatory statements by Sue Rostoni of Licensing and, in December, the Holocron's own Leland Chee (creator of the GCSN levels you reference) himself?
http://www.canonwars.com/SWCanon2-conde ... ml#III-B-2
. . . and mine:You asked my opinion, not if I cared to debate the issue.
But now, I'm asking why.No debate was requested . . . I was just making certain you were aware of those items and were rejecting them inasmuch as your opinion was concerned. I didn't ask why.
I recognize you are busy on the board at the moment, Alyeska, but when the opportunity appears I would like to know your reasoning behind your rejections of the statements.
Just so you know where I'm coming from, I'll simply say that, in my mind, whereas the possibility still existed that my understanding was flawed in some way prior to the Starlog 2005 quote, in my opinion there has simply been no room for debate since that time. Chee's recognition (or re-recognition) in late 2006 of the dual continuities is the final nail in the coffin, to me, so I really fail to understand how one can dismiss the dual canon concept.
(Indeed, so far as I've seen, there's been absolutely no substantive response to the Starlog 2005 quote or Chee's 2006 two continuities quotes. (The closest one came was the so-called "Production Evasion".) SDN EU Completists have simply gone on believing EU Completism without any change whatsoever.)
Now, if I've misread you and you recognize the dual canons but simply choose to go with the Licensing one, then I apologize. But, I'd then still be curious to know why you do so. (SDN'ers have claimed that Chee suggests that the continuity inclusive of the EU is primary somehow, though I don't see where they're getting that either.)
Basically, I'm just looking for a straight answer from someone in the EU Completist camp, or at least someone who's a dual-canon Completist.
Take your time, and thanks in advance.