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Spoilers 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series [Spoiler Discussion]

The day that every fan of every franchise realizes that canon means absolutely nothing will truly be a day of enlightenment.

And I believe that will be a day when the art of storytelling in television or movie form has been destroyed. I can tolerate minor inconsistencies, but not major ones.
 
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.

Well you could say those stories destroyed canon. Yoda and kenobi were the last 2 Jedi. Luke came after. That's according to the very first original canon. Any novel or show that introduced us to a new Jedi has completely destroyed the original canon.
 
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.
Again: -
The unreliable narrator is your friend.
It helps that the Kanan comic was framed as a bacta induced flashback (nope, Boba Fett did not invent those!) So any discrepancies can be chalked up to a skewed perspective and warped recollections of traumatic events years after the fact. The essential facts were all basically consistent anyway, so it's hardly a big deal.

LF has be rather careful about this kind of thing; making sure they allow themselves some latitude and don't' get painted into too many corners.
 
Regardless, the whole idea that tie-in material would be considered canon and that movies/TV shows would be required to stay consistent with novels and comic books was laughable enough to begin with, and there's no reason anyone should have expected it to be adhered to.
 
And I believe that will be a day when the art of storytelling in television or movie form has been destroyed. I can tolerate minor inconsistencies, but not major ones.
That's just plain silly hyperbole.

Regardless, the whole idea that tie-in material would be considered canon and that movies/TV shows would be required to stay consistent with novels and comic books was laughable enough to begin with, and there's no reason anyone should have expected it to be adhered to.
Indeed. Anyone who genuinely thought this would ever happen was fooling themselves.
 
Indeed. Anyone who genuinely thought this would ever happen was fooling themselves.
Well, that's exactly what has happened throughout the history of Star Wars. A lot of fan assumptions, and delusional style of thinking of expecting the films to abide by preconceived notions of how that universe was to unfold, either informed by novels or video games or personal imagination.
 
Regardless, the whole idea that tie-in material would be considered canon and that movies/TV shows would be required to stay consistent with novels and comic books was laughable enough to begin with, and there's no reason anyone should have expected it to be adhered to.

Indeed. Anyone who genuinely thought this would ever happen was fooling themselves.
Essentially, yeah. Though I think it's fair to say that under Disney, LF has been giving the ancillary materials far more weight on the live action/animation than they ever had in the old EU. The latter still gets priority of course, because it makes no sense to derail a movie or a TV show just because the story doesn't fit with what was printed in some RPG sourcebook, or a collection of short stories. The general attitude seems to be a willingness to make it fit if they can, but not worry overmuch if there's some squinting and head turning required.

Plus one must always look at these things are they are: products made by people, not objective accounts of this that actually happened. So it's never going to be 100% consistent even if they put in a concerted and unreasonably stringent effort to do so.
 
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I wish they would end the episodes with a teaser trailer for the following episode. Without it, I get this strange sense of finality when the credits roll. :lol:

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Well, other than a few wonky moments here and there (like Tala's ridiculously melodramatic death, some logical issues about how much of the fighting unfolded and a few) and a few lazy shortcuts, that was mostly pretty darn terrific.
 
We finally get a flashback. All 60 seconds of it.
It was an okay episode but it just feels like we are retreading the movies with these similar plot points.
 
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