Star Wars canon is an interesting thing. The thing I like most about Star Wars is the universe it is contained in. The epics that are the trilogies are great and all (one much more so than the other, but that is due to mechanical choices and not the story itself) but they’re just a part of something much bigger. It’s the over arching mythology of the whole universe, and that can only really be seen when you branch out from the films into the expanded universe of Star Wars which takes its form from books, comics, games, etc. It’s this growing of universal base of knowledge that I love. The novels are not Pulitzer material but they don’t need to be; they are just vehicles to feed onto the growing mythology of this far away place from long ago. George Lucas’s original vision was fantasic and expansive and that vision has become a spectacle. Star Wars is no longer his. The universe has outgrown him; it has become a living thing. There are varying degrees of canon and techinally only the films are true Star Wars, but true or not, contradicting or not, it is all part of the mythology now. Other mythology contradicts and comes from varying sources, but it is still a cohesive universe of belief. Since I’ve begun playing Knights of the Old Republic, I’ve learned very little from the storyline as of yet (I just had the Jedi Bastila join my group), the tid bits of back story that pepper the loading screens have been very informative. Those little nuggets, no matter how low on the canon scale, have expanded my Star Wars universe a good deal. My Old Republic era knowledge is limited, and just these one liners have whetted my thirst for more.

Take a stand!

1. You are the Chewie to my Han Solo.

   — B · Aug 29, 09:06 AM · #

2. need…more….white space…

   — Misty · Sep 3, 04:30 PM · #

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