[HPforGrownups] Re: What is Canon? and STAR WARS

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 55930


--- The Fox <the_fox01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Lucas has actually called the novels "glorified fan
> fiction".  This is 
> pretty rich, considering he's the one doing the
> glorifying, but there you 
> go.  :-)  This includes the novelizations of the
> films themselves, so 
> strictly speaking the Star Wars canon presently
> consists only of the five 
> films.

I thought I recalled something like that.

 
> This makes every bit as much sense as considering
> the Harry Potter canon 
> presently to consist only of the four books[1], and
> not the films.  You've 
> got canon in one medium, and you've got material in
> another medium based on 
> the original canon material.  Only one of them can
> be right, when they 
> disagree.

See, I tend to think of HP as a "books-only" canon. 
If it's not in the books, it's not canon.  Though it
can (like Lily's last name) be generally accepted. 
I'll accept it as fact, but not canon, if that makes
sense.

> [1]  I'm less comfortable including the schoolbooks,
> and *even* less 
> comfortable including statements made in interviews
> -- but at least in this 
> fandom, it's a safe bet that our storyteller won't
> change horses in 
> mid-stream.  I believe JKR has planned this all
> through; I no longer believe 
> George Lucas ever had a spiral notebook.


I believe GL may have had a plan.  But it sure isn't
the one he carried out.  Heck, doesn't the script
(description, not dialog) for ANH, refer to Leia as
appx. sixteen and Luke as eighteen?  I've heard tons
of rumors for what he originally planned, but I don't
know how truthful they are.

However, I love the ESB revelation.  I mean, I never
cared one way or the other until the prequels came
out.  But then, after watch AOTC, I watched ROTJ.  It
was like watching an entirely different movie.  There
were so many more layers.  I sit there and notice
every hesitation on Vader's part.  And, while
watching, I called him "Anakin."  I'd never done that
before.  For me it was just so cool.


Rebecca

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