New Star Wars Canon as it Pertains to The Debate
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:53 pm
And lo, here be that somewhere else!
So, the new Star Wars canon policy essentially removes the old novelizations and any debate over the old EU material. But it also does introduce some new EU material.
This new material is reportedly on equal footing with the movies. This presents a small question to the debate scene: how to handle inconsistencies between the novels and the movies. Disney has stated that they will maintain consistency within published works so there won't be inconsistencies (obviously). But it is also clear that they mean this from a storyline standpoint and not from a technical standpoint. So again the question is asked what to do when there is the inevitable technical contradiction.
Well there are two real options I can think of.
A) Hold the movies higher anyway to settle conflicts.
B) Hold them the same, but effectively reach the same result as with (A) because there is significant canon material supporting the movies portrayal in almost every technical aspect.
I personally prefer the second option, it is more work to provide and solve a contradiction, but I also think it is a more fair way of going about it. However much I may be tempted to go with (A) as I really couldn't care less about Star Wars in other published mediums. Well... I could actually care less, but you get the point. Anyway, with the greatly increasing volume of canon material we are getting more to an analytical point similar to Star Trek where there will actually be multiple data points for the same aspect.
So, the new Star Wars canon policy essentially removes the old novelizations and any debate over the old EU material. But it also does introduce some new EU material.
This new material is reportedly on equal footing with the movies. This presents a small question to the debate scene: how to handle inconsistencies between the novels and the movies. Disney has stated that they will maintain consistency within published works so there won't be inconsistencies (obviously). But it is also clear that they mean this from a storyline standpoint and not from a technical standpoint. So again the question is asked what to do when there is the inevitable technical contradiction.
Well there are two real options I can think of.
A) Hold the movies higher anyway to settle conflicts.
B) Hold them the same, but effectively reach the same result as with (A) because there is significant canon material supporting the movies portrayal in almost every technical aspect.
I personally prefer the second option, it is more work to provide and solve a contradiction, but I also think it is a more fair way of going about it. However much I may be tempted to go with (A) as I really couldn't care less about Star Wars in other published mediums. Well... I could actually care less, but you get the point. Anyway, with the greatly increasing volume of canon material we are getting more to an analytical point similar to Star Trek where there will actually be multiple data points for the same aspect.