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archer9234 said: Disney put out a list in May. It basically said this is canon. Everything else is junk. http://io9.com/this-is-your-new-star-wars-canon-so-far-1694117482 |
Thanks. Apparently I missed a bunch of articles about this over the last year and a half.
Anyway they're keeping things as vague as possible, especially concerning EU stuff that's either referenced at in things mentioned in the 'new-canon' or EU stuff that's still ongoing like The Old Republic MMO. On one hand they say only the things in that list are absolute canon, on the other they say everything being made from the Disney acquisition onwards is canon. Reading on, apparently the developers of TOR themselves don't even know if what they're doing is canon or not. There's plenty of grey area.
Reading further, I came across the original press release about the canonicity of the EU, on, I could have guessed it myself, starwars.com. It's more in line with what I had in my head so this is probably what I was remembering:
In order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience, Star Wars Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe. While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being discarded. Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe. For example, elements of the EU are included in Star Wars Rebels. The Inquisitor, the Imperial Security Bureau, and Sienar Fleet Systems are story elements in the new animated series, and all these ideas find their origins in roleplaying game material published in the 1980s.
It says they're basically setting all EU stories aside in a sort of TBD status, because it's "not being discarded". We can say however that the new movies do make the Thrawn trilogy indeed 'junk' though, because they'll rewrite those years, but for the rest I'd say we should just wait a moment until we know what stories conflict and what gets reused or gets referenced in anything new before we ready the trash-can.
It's a mess now, that's for sure.
