I have a feeling that Supercell didn’t quite understand what he’d unleashed when he created Star Wars, even decades later as he was collecting royalties on the sales of a hundred novels that carried its branding. And when he made the decision on making new films, I think he probably didn’t think it was important to just write them however he felt like writing them, acting as if he had a blank paper to write on the original trilogy.
That situation was not quite what it is now with The Force Awakens and the new sequel trilogy. Whereas the period after the original films has been heavily taken out with new component, the Expanded Universe steered clear of the period before the films, where George would place the unavoidable prequel trilogy. So there was no grand declaration of a canon reboot ahead of Episode I, unlike this new era. However, there was the qualification that any material written by George himself would replace any of the Expanded Universe stuff. Of course, that was to be expected.
Star Wars fans are nerds of the highest order. They were certainly not opposed to retcons should they come up. Nerd franchises of all kinds had always been rife with them, as had the Expanded Universe itself—a natural occurrence given how out of control the EU had been. Bantam Spectra’s handle on continuity was solid in the broad strokes but the sheer density of the release plan meant there were persistent differences in the smaller details. Some writers just wrote the thing they wanted and didn’t understand the world they were writing for. That’s why we were used to seeing those discrepancies and differences appear and then in later novels, they try to settle or at least recontextualize them.
By the time the prequels came around, the folks monitoring the EU had gotten enough of a handle on it that such incidents became rarer. The key to a workable retcon is that you know you’re doing a retcon. It feel like when George wrote that Jedi weren’t permitted having romantic involvements or that Boba Fett was the cloned son of a guy named Jango, that he just didn’t know they contradicted the existing continuity.
I’ve read intently Aftermath, perused some of the new Marvel comics, and watched Star Wars Rebels. With this first ever official Star Wars canon reboot, it will take time to adjust. But this new version still hasn’t set up a title. Maybe the movies progress will follow that direction - they’ll at least be something more real to catch – but, for now, it feels like it’s walking through the darkness, not really understanding what it is.
JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy have said all the right things over the last couple years. So I still have some hope. But to look on the bright side that given the relatively tight handle the LucasFilm Story Group has on the new canon, it’s almost impossible to envision anything on the horizon being as bad as The Crystal Star. But never say never.
Source: http://cocland.com/miscellaneous/clash-of-clans-update-history
That situation was not quite what it is now with The Force Awakens and the new sequel trilogy. Whereas the period after the original films has been heavily taken out with new component, the Expanded Universe steered clear of the period before the films, where George would place the unavoidable prequel trilogy. So there was no grand declaration of a canon reboot ahead of Episode I, unlike this new era. However, there was the qualification that any material written by George himself would replace any of the Expanded Universe stuff. Of course, that was to be expected.
Star Wars fans are nerds of the highest order. They were certainly not opposed to retcons should they come up. Nerd franchises of all kinds had always been rife with them, as had the Expanded Universe itself—a natural occurrence given how out of control the EU had been. Bantam Spectra’s handle on continuity was solid in the broad strokes but the sheer density of the release plan meant there were persistent differences in the smaller details. Some writers just wrote the thing they wanted and didn’t understand the world they were writing for. That’s why we were used to seeing those discrepancies and differences appear and then in later novels, they try to settle or at least recontextualize them.
By the time the prequels came around, the folks monitoring the EU had gotten enough of a handle on it that such incidents became rarer. The key to a workable retcon is that you know you’re doing a retcon. It feel like when George wrote that Jedi weren’t permitted having romantic involvements or that Boba Fett was the cloned son of a guy named Jango, that he just didn’t know they contradicted the existing continuity.
I’ve read intently Aftermath, perused some of the new Marvel comics, and watched Star Wars Rebels. With this first ever official Star Wars canon reboot, it will take time to adjust. But this new version still hasn’t set up a title. Maybe the movies progress will follow that direction - they’ll at least be something more real to catch – but, for now, it feels like it’s walking through the darkness, not really understanding what it is.
JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy have said all the right things over the last couple years. So I still have some hope. But to look on the bright side that given the relatively tight handle the LucasFilm Story Group has on the new canon, it’s almost impossible to envision anything on the horizon being as bad as The Crystal Star. But never say never.
Source: http://cocland.com/miscellaneous/clash-of-clans-update-history