Star Wars Past EU Officially Decanonized by Lucasfilm

Only the 6 official films, the Clone Wars series and the New 'Rebels' show will be treated as official canon going forward.

https://movies.yahoo.com/news/lucasfilm-unveils-plans-star-wars-expanded-universe-050000805.html

 

Well, despite claims from Lucasfilm, the EU was never really canon. Calling it such was just a gimmick to get people to whom such irrelevancies matter to buy the books.

 

True, this serves mostly to stop people from speculating that the plot of the new trilogy will be connected to the EU.

 

The EU was never canon, although some ideas that were in the West End RPG books were sprinkled into the prequels.

75% of the EU materials never deserved to be canon anyway.

 

http://starwars.com/news/disney-pub...relaunch-of-star-wars-adult-fiction-line.html and now they just announced 4 new star wars novels, with full cover artwork. I am interested in all 4.

 

You mean like the balance between the light and dark sides of the Force?

 

Booooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

As I posted (in more words) elsewhere -

Good !

 

Only an idiot would think otherwise - "we want you to write bold new adventures - oh and you have to be consistent with 20 years of crap knocked out by 100s of different authors".


That doesn't mean they might not lift stuff from there but you didn't need to be Jedi to see this coming.

 

I'm happy about this. I've been disappointed in the EU since the end of the New Jedi Order series. Hopefully the new stuff won't suck like the last two major novel series.

 

Yeah, this isn't so much an announcement as a clarification for all the deluded fanboys who were convinced Episode VII will be a word-for-word adaptation of 'Heir to the Empire', 'Dark Empire' or one of those tedious NJO era stories. The EU has never been canon, that's why there's a separate name for it. Otherwise it'd just be call "the Star Wars Universe" with no delineation.

Of course as TCW has proven, that doesn't mean they won't draw certain characters, backstories, concepts etc. from certain EU sources when and where appropriate.
Clearly there are still fans working at Lucasfilm.

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The separate name is simply to distinguish it from the films.

 

Chewies not dead anymore

 

What, no love for Crix Madine?

 

And in other news, the sky is declared to be blue.

This was a great decision.

 

I hate disregarding past stories for a new one, if you want to do so why not just make something brand new? And somehow a partial sequel feels even worse than a reboot. I know more people will watch the new films than read the novels and comics but if you were willing to publish and sell them and have people to enjoy them, it seems pretty cheap to suddenly say the events didn't happen within the fictional universe.

 

It's partially a matter of the sheer volume of material reaching a critical mass so that it becomes increasingly difficult to create anything new at all.

More to the point, as has already been stated, they're not "decanonising" anything because it was never canon to begin with. Hell, the EU could never keep things straight anyway, which is why there's that anal and ridiculously ungainly multi-tiered canonicity scale. All they've done is said that from here on out, all of the new stuff *will* be canon.

 

Why? J.J. Abrams isn't going to break into your house and steal your novels. And how does them deciding to go in a different direction impact the enjoyment of the novels that you've already read?

Two of the best Star Trek novels ever, "Strangers from the Sky" and "Federation" got overwritten later on by both the TV series and Star Trek: First Contact. The latter in no way impacted my enjoyment of the former. I think it's great that we can get different stories about the same basic events.