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by Who is like God arbour » Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:52 pm
That's so wrong that I'm inclined to accuse you to have intentionally lied.
Either by claiming that you have read said novelizations or by claiming that their stories are told by a limited third person narrator.
An omniscient third person narrator has omniscient knowledge of time, people, places and events.
A limited third person narrator, in contrast, may know absolutely everything about a single character and every piece of knowledge in that character's mind, but it is "limited" to that character - that is, it cannot describe things unknown to the focal character.
In all Star Wars novelizations, the narrator always described things that happened at different places with different characters.
In the novelization of » A New Hope «, the narrator begins its story with describing scenes aboard the Tantive IV where neither Luke nor Darth Vader appeared. It describes how the rebels are readying themselves for the imminent boarding of their ship. Even princess Leia is not mentioned at first. Only later does she and Darth Vader appear. Then it described scenes on Tatooine in which Luke appeared but neither Darth Vader nor princess Leia. Later it described scenes in the Death Star in which Darth Vader but not Luke appeared. After Luke, Han, Chewbaca, Leia and the droids escaped from the Death Star, the narrator describes a scene in which Tarkin and Darth Vader are talking about the homing device and eventual risks only to change to a scene aboard the Falcon.
Insofar, it is obviously that it was not limited to what a specific person experienced. The narrator was not focused on a single person and knew more than a single person could knew.
Insofar there can't be a doubt that the story of » A New Hope « is told by an omniscient third person narrator.
But even if it were only a limited third person narrator, the objective facts that a limited third person narrator describes are still objective facts. When such a narrator describes a scene, then the scene is as it was described.
These quotes above are objective facts (and the opinion of the narrator) but not the thoughts or opinion of Darth Vader or any other character.
Insofar, even if the narrator of the story of » A New Hope « is only a imited third person narrator, who was only describing what Darth Vader experienced in that moment, the tridimensional solid screen still filled one wall of the vast chamber from floor to ceiling and still showed a million star systems, which were together a tiny portion of the modest-sized galaxy.
And all lower-canon sources that are claiming that the Star Wars galaxy is with 120.000 light years in diameter a huge galaxy are still as worthless as used toilet-paper.
