Spoilers 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series [Spoiler Discussion]
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Since when?
Must have been the Disney buyout. Fictionalised the whole damn franchise . . .
DAMN them! Making a fictional universe fictionalized!
Their evil knows no bounds!
WRT GR and TAS, it was because in 1987 when TNG was going into production; Filmation asserted that any elements taken from TAS for use in TNG (IE - character references, or story references to things which occurred in TAS), would mean Filmation was owed royalty payments per use.
So, in response, GR and Paramount declared TAS non canon and told everyone on staff that nothing in TAS was to be referred to in any way.
So, yes, there was in fact a practical reason why TAS was de-canonized in 1987.
So then, why was it re-canonized in 2006?
The holders of Filmation's library of material let their rights lapse; and at that point, full rights for TAS returned to Paramount as it co-produced TAS.
Yet this was ignored when TAS creations appeared in later TOS movies (Kirk's full middle name in The Undiscovered Country, which was created for TAS' "Bem", the Caitian species seen in The Voyage Home,) or were referred to in the Berman-era ST series (Vulcan's Forge, the Sehlat, Shi-Khar, planets on TNG maps, various elements from Lt. Arex's Edosian homeworld, etc.).
Gene ignored a lot of things when it suited him. I'm not surprised.
And this is where we learn that companies are run by people, not omnipotent god machines made of wibbly lights. People with attention spans, and finite time to spend on monitoring media just in case there's a single mention of a thing that's legally actionable. Is it really that astonishing that a few things slipped by over the years?
The day that every fan of every franchise realizes that canon means absolutely nothing will truly be a day of enlightenment.
It's true. I was just watching Boba Fett gallery this morning and favreau states that with the shows they are making they are trying to stay true to canon and the EU.
Folks think the changes to official canon mean they won't see the EU stuff. I don't think that's true. I mean if someone wrote a few awesome episodes of a Dash Rendar or Kyle Katarn show and it was reviewed, well received and they thought they would make a billion bucks, they of course would be getting on that.
A day long remembered.
No one is astonished by it. The point is that companies--especially those with larger fantasy-based IPs issue statements about what is not canonical to a property, when such statements do not hold up to even a moment of scrutiny, as in the case of TAS.
All that "canon" ever really means in this context is "what shit do the current writers kinda-sorta mostly have to pay attention to here and now, and what can they ignore if they want." And that can change from project to project as priorities shift, management changes, and eventualities eventuate.
Or sometimes people just flat out make mistakes. Or don't care. Which brings me back to the "it's all made up anyway so just relax."
Basically if one's value judgement of a given story hinges on whether or not it contradicts a blurb in some fluff reference book from 8 years ago, or some other story only a tiny percentage of the fandom have even read and wasn't that good to begin with; then one ought to re-examine one's priorities. For down that path lies obsessive making of ranking lists and other such useless activities.
TL/DR: Who cares?!
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Didn't a Doctor Who show runner once say that canon was what he remembered?
Terrance Dicks
Even the idea that the Disney era books and comics are canon was destroyed the moment The Bad Batch gave us a different version of what Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarrus experienced during Order 66 from what happened in the Kanan comic miniseries, and I'm not sure but I think what The Mandalorian did with Cobb Vanth contradicted what the Aftermath books did with him.
"Destroyed " is such a final word. The simple idea is canon is mutable, based upon who is telling the story. Memory is imperfect, point of view shifts, perspectives change.
The more important part is are you invested?
The more important part is are you invested?
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