tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209991432010-02-18T01:06:48.246ZG2knoreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-29190507931853282832010-02-18T01:06:00.001Z2010-02-18T01:06:48.255Z

MTV Movieblog interview with Filoni, again reiterating how involved Lucas is and the treatment of EU 'facts' as optional:The fear with anything Lucas involves himself with -- he's always said that his word is gospel as far as the franchise goes -- is that something fundamental in the EU, something that fans love, runs the risk of being changed in some way. "Obviously [George is] aware of the EU,"

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I couldn't let this pass without a mention:"[...] I love doing Star Wars.  At the beginning I thought it was gonna be one little movie, move on . . . it's not at all what I expected my life to be."- Lucas on the Jan 5 2010 "The Daily Show"12, 9, 6, 3, 1 . . . can I hear 15?   18?   2?   64?

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-54061649162439298132009-10-26T17:39:00.001Z2009-10-26T17:39:06.579Z

Working on a new version of the Canon Wars site as I test out a different content management system.  It's a lot of work, but by the end of it some things should be easier.   Watch this space.

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-21577363483875436522009-10-08T01:00:00.000Z2009-10-07T20:09:44.077Z

Some EU Completists have, in desperation, apparently resorted to outright lies.In a recent blog, I noted that I needed to find the Heir to the Empire inside flap blurb because someone on ForceCast referred to it has having a quote that might be noteworthy in reference to canon stuff.   I came across it (I thought) the other day.Quoting from the forums at DarkHorse.com, as quoted from Wookieepedia

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-8290696227196720352009-10-07T15:35:00.000Z2009-10-07T15:36:10.805Z

"How involved is George? Dave goes on to say: "(He's) very specific. He'll get down to a line. He and I willchange lines of dialog all the time. It's something that he's taught meto do as a director, which I've never really done before. Constantlywith the attitude of making it better. When he writes dialog forAnakin, it's Anakin, there is no doubt. And we do that all throughoutthe process. He'll

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"Was it intimidating to build a show in a universe where they fans know every single detail?""Absolutely,it is, but as a fan, I know what they're going to think. I have to say,even when they don't like something, I pretty much knew they weren'tgoing to like it ahead of time. People say, "Well, why don't you fixit?" But see, it's not a matter of "that needs to be fixed" as much asI know the

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-55179206150554266672009-10-01T18:10:00.000Z2009-10-01T18:11:28.957Z

Shocked?  Me too.But I've finally done an update to a page, but alas it was only to the Star Wars canon policy quote list.  And even then only the chronological one.  But it's a step.

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-48806687483953993612009-10-01T13:21:00.001Z2009-10-01T13:21:33.215Z

Found an older Lucas quote the other day regarding The Clone Wars:“This is a project we have been working on since the end of Revenge of the Sith, I have worked with animation before in film school and with The Land Before Time… I just felt it was time to explore that medium, and at the same time be able to explore a part of the Star Wars[universe] that is so vast, that you can’t only deal with

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-77397759154282569942009-09-23T20:49:00.000Z2009-09-23T15:52:04.310Z

"Filoni on continuity and Expanded Universe: “When we’re developingstory ideas and George comes to me with ideas — he has tons of them —if there’s something I know crosses over with material that’s beenexplored with the Expanded Universe of Star Wars then I willbring that up and kind of refresh him on what it was. At that pointwe’ll make a decision on our storytelling on whether that material

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-34788014086951123432009-09-05T23:20:00.001Z2009-09-05T23:20:39.237Z

Pretty sure this is old, but whatever.   Choice Quotes:Henry: George gave Dave and I a lot of freedom and he didn’t want us to be limited by what the EU had established.Filoni:This series at least to George is NOT EU, it is a part of Star Warsas he sees it. I think if anything there was a period where Henry and Ihad to learn exactly what it took to be a part of George Lucas’ StarWars, and tell

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-84896091814465159952009-09-05T23:04:00.001Z2009-09-05T23:04:34.651Z

Let me preface this by saying . . . I hate podcasts.  They have no place in my existence, and of course there's no simple CTRL-F to find the actual interesting stuff.That said, the ForceCast has been getting interesting.  Crap.Notes regarding the 08-14-09 episode.54:00 - Karen Traviss talk begins.60:00 - Exasperation over EU Completists who stand against Lucas.  Great stuff.* Need to get full

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-68516590191093018722009-09-04T20:42:00.002Z2009-09-04T20:44:19.792Z

Once upon a time, someone was in a fit of desperation to ignore the Lucas position regarding what is or isn't canon and part of his universe.   In the process of seeking something to say to counter the obvious, they hit upon the idea of declaring that  Lucas really wasn't saying what we thought he was saying.(e.g. the EU being "outside of my little universe" and "different universe" and a "

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-89293880652414778882009-08-24T13:19:00.001Z2009-09-04T20:44:42.166Z

There's an interesting suggestion at tvtropes.org regarding series bibles ...thus, if it's written in the Universe Bible, it's considered de facto canon, even if it's never mentioned in the series itself.Not so sure about that. Unless a push is made to both conform to and include facts within the bible (which defeats the purpose of considering the bible canon anyway, given that it just went on

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-23906771001060342802009-08-13T19:47:00.002Z2009-09-04T20:45:07.070Z

The dual canons, parallel universe concept is going mainstream as more people listen to what Lucas has said.  TheForce.Net and RebelScum.com present the ForceCast podcast, and in the latest one one of the guys expounds the Lucas view and the reality of the situation.  Skip forward to about 31:54 and hear a part of it, though there are other snippets throughout the podcast.Tip of the hat, guys.

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-75289688119448914992009-08-12T19:56:00.000Z2009-10-01T13:16:34.181Z

Leland Chee "does not support the notion of parallel SW universes." George Lucas, of course, does. I exaggerate with the title, of course, but there is a disagreement brewing, and Chee is digging in his heels on the wrong side. Fortunately, Lucas has no idea who he is, probably, so he's safe. In any case, I feel for the guy. Chee is, after all, kinda stuck. Lucas has been repeatedly and

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-35492358125612741732009-08-11T19:14:00.001Z2009-09-04T20:51:22.176Z

Karen Traviss, author of a great deal of licensed Star Wars material and one of those writers who truly interacted with fans, has decided to end her relationship with Lucas Licensing.   The reason?   The relationship between George Lucas and the EU.Traviss expressed the fact that to do her job to her satisfaction with her assorted multi-book works, she needed a universe to write in that wasn't

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-86495329336667623762009-07-24T16:49:00.002Z2009-08-05T08:31:38.486Z

Though not 100% work-safe even in the link, this guy touches on the canon of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and he really goes to town on the canon policy of the BBC in regards to Doctor Who, a canon policy which is to not have a policy.There are also some great quotes in there. Paul Magrs, for instance:"Its a curious irony, I think, in a series with a rabble rouser

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-11985335444253483212009-03-18T11:57:00.000Z2009-03-18T11:57:01.073Z

I haven't had time to go through these yet for anything useful, but I figured I'd shove them on out the door so I didn't forget them permanently.MTV talks to LucasInterview with Lucas, Winder, & Filoni.http://3news.co.nz/News/RareglimpseintoLucasEmpireCloneWarspremiere/tabid/418/articleID/66530/cat/55/Default.aspx

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-2312786723929440742009-03-16T09:43:00.000Z2009-03-16T09:43:00.840Z

It isn't just sci-fi geeks who get into discussions of continuity and canonicity.Check out this Wikipedia entry. There you'll find how the last moments of the 80's television show St. Elsewhere imply that the primary timeline of the show (featuring a hospital with lots of doctor drama, a la ER) occurred in the imagination of one of the characters, an autistic boy who also imagined himself in

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-10419577423288978822008-12-13T23:00:00.000Z2008-12-13T23:18:11.804Z

One of the main fellas of the new Trek movie states that its 23rd Century scenes will be a parallel timeline to established TOS history.Link: http://trekmovie.com/2008/12/11/bob-orci-explains-how-the-new-star-trek-movie-fits-with-trek-canon-and-real-science/

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"On top of that, I think Dave knows more about Star Wars than I do! He can quickly reference things from other media, like the Star Wars books, comics, and video games, which are based on what I created but I don't actually get involved with too deeply. Dave loves them, and his knowledge gives us a better picture of this entire universe."- George Lucas, Flanneled One, Oct. 2008 - "George Lucas:

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I don't know how the guy asked the question if he can't spell the word, but nonetheless here's the GenreOnline.Net interview with Dave Filoni, in which the interviewer inquires about the canon status of the CGI series:Rivera: Fine thank you. I have a question with regard to the storyline and with regard to the new series and the previous series. I noticed while looking through the press materials

G2knoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-54431235456740230812008-09-23T04:08:00.000Z2008-09-23T04:08:00.207Z

I haven't covered much about the writers of the JJ Abrams flick and their statements on canon (something to be corrected later), but I couldn't resist tossing this one out there:Alex Kurtzman: We did a lot of reading of the books. I think we consider the books canon to a large degree so it’s very important to us to stay consistent.Go have fun with that in your own heads. I'll share my thoughts

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-10744330179797155942008-09-06T16:23:00.000Z2008-09-06T16:23:00.765Z

Another recent discussion on Trek canon featured a re-iteration of an old line I'd seen before from the anti-canon crowd.No, 'canon' is what writers in the series have to adhere to when expanding on the official fiction. 'Canon' was never something for the fandom.This, of course, is fallacy, based on the unfortunate myriad denotations of the term "canon", its confusions with denotations of "

G2knoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20999143.post-22300764847629003502008-09-06T15:25:00.000Z2008-09-06T15:25:00.361Z

Although I thought this obvious, I was reminded recently of the sort of confusion that people have if they fail to acknowledge proper rank and company information. A conversation on an EU Completist and Star-Trek-hate web board featured a conversation on Trek canon.The opening post of the thread (titled "Possible canon change for Star Trek?") features old quotes from Harry Lang that the poster

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