The third discussion turns our gaze to the most popular interstellar battle of them all, our sights firmly remaining in the stars and proving that no genre gives us debatable canon discussion more than science fiction does. Star Wars boasts two official canon's to its name, the first was cast across all the content that existed across different forms of media before Disney took control of the franchise, the second is everything that exists after it. However, what is key with Star Wars is that a little like Marvel, little to none of it matters unless it appears in the movies because they remain the beating heart of the franchise and so they don't pay much attention to what occurs outside the big screen efforts.
With that in mind, we're primarily focused on the movie canon with this thread. It'll be interesting if anyone throws any answers in from comics, books, games etc from the last few years as it'll reflect whether unexplained things in the films are just that or are a reflection of poor film making.
Stripping back to the films though presents a pretty straightforward franchise canon as this epic, thousands of years long and galaxy wide epic remains resolutely tied to the singular tale of handful of characters.
There are some obvious canon issues if you look purely at the films. One of the more obvious issues is the one created by Solo whereby there is now a requirement to explain the involvement of Maul. I know that the majority of that thread has been previously explained by the non-movie canon however at least 95% of the audience will have experienced that reveal from a point of it coming out of nowhere and without explanation. There's the argument that it was intended for two more films to follow that would have no doubt explained that arc however you do stray into the territory whereby it negates the need for it to be explained in multiple places and risks contradictions occurring. Given the failure of the film, for most of the movie going audience, Star Wars now has a massive loose thread dangling unexplained.
But with Star Wars, it's canon is less complex than most, instead it's mostly lacking in depth or context unless you lean heavily on sources outside the films to try and flesh out its world. That doesn't stop it from being controversial however as The Last Jedi proved. Given how widely analysed the latest Episode entry has been we'll start what will be more of a general discussion about the Star Wars canon from that point.
First there's the obvious two questions:
-Did Last Jedi ruin the new trilogy arc and betray the character of Luke?
-How best should Episode IX wrap up the trilogy?
With that in mind, we're primarily focused on the movie canon with this thread. It'll be interesting if anyone throws any answers in from comics, books, games etc from the last few years as it'll reflect whether unexplained things in the films are just that or are a reflection of poor film making.
Stripping back to the films though presents a pretty straightforward franchise canon as this epic, thousands of years long and galaxy wide epic remains resolutely tied to the singular tale of handful of characters.
There are some obvious canon issues if you look purely at the films. One of the more obvious issues is the one created by Solo whereby there is now a requirement to explain the involvement of Maul. I know that the majority of that thread has been previously explained by the non-movie canon however at least 95% of the audience will have experienced that reveal from a point of it coming out of nowhere and without explanation. There's the argument that it was intended for two more films to follow that would have no doubt explained that arc however you do stray into the territory whereby it negates the need for it to be explained in multiple places and risks contradictions occurring. Given the failure of the film, for most of the movie going audience, Star Wars now has a massive loose thread dangling unexplained.
But with Star Wars, it's canon is less complex than most, instead it's mostly lacking in depth or context unless you lean heavily on sources outside the films to try and flesh out its world. That doesn't stop it from being controversial however as The Last Jedi proved. Given how widely analysed the latest Episode entry has been we'll start what will be more of a general discussion about the Star Wars canon from that point.
First there's the obvious two questions:
-Did Last Jedi ruin the new trilogy arc and betray the character of Luke?
-How best should Episode IX wrap up the trilogy?
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