Ist das Imperium wirklich böse?

[~Jack~]

* Even more violent and vitriolic than the argument over the quality of the Expanded Universe is the argument over the canonicity of the Expanded Universe. How bad did it get? Let's put it this way: when the Non-Canon side of the argument pointed out that George Lucas himself, the creator of Star Wars and the Presumed Voice of God when it comes to Star Wars (at least one would think, anyway), doesn't consider anything other than the films to be canon, the Pro-Canon side of the argument's response was to marginalize Lucas's opinions as unimportant in the overall scheme of things since "he really has no say in the matter", a view Lucas apparently finds rather funny and, naturally, dismisses out of hand as ludicrous.

* Lucas has stated that the Expanded Universe is valid unto itself. He clarified this when he stated that the Star Wars Expanded Universe is a separate entity from "official" Star Wars material, and has a canon all of its own outside of "real" Star Wars canon. The Pro-Canon EU fans didn't take being told that the EU was essentially a "side project" very well, either. (The Pro-Canon EU fans can be overzealous sometimes).

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Also stimmt die Aussage durchaus, dass er aufs Expanded Universe pfeifen würde wenn er selber neue Stories im Star Wars Universum erzählt. Ich schaue es zwar selbst nicht, aber anscheinend hat er das teilweise mit der Clone Wars Serie auch schon getan. Aber da die einzelnen Autoren wohl selbst nicht alles ordentlich recherchieren kann man darüber eigentlich problemlos hinwegsehen solange die Bücher an sich lesenswert sind.

[Corti]

Ich find das Expanded Universe von Romanautoren, Comiczeichnern und Spielefirmen um einiges cooler als alles was George Lucas selbst nach der originalen Trilogie geschaffen hat.