TOR and canon

I don't care what canon is. To clarify I don't care that the expanded universe that existed for so long and gave me so much enjoyment with all the stories and 'history' of SW not filled in by Lucas because he was busy enjoying his money, doing other things and taking a mostly 'backseat' role to what would be used to make him more money.

I understand how people think disney HAD to do the 'legends' thing but they really didn't, nothing said they had to follow the books word for word as many adaptations have not. There would be little chance that people wouldn't want to see the films because they already read the books.

The only real issues would be with screenwriters/directors etc who would throw a temper tantrum because they couldn't do whatever they wanted with the story.

So I don't think TOR NEEDS to be made canon, canon is just a word that doesn't effect how great or non-great material is.

I think all companies want moar things to 'quench their corporate greed' because that's why businesses exist to make more money and be morally bankrupt as possible, business business business, numbers. But Disney has done fine with marvel and pixar so to think they'll ruin sw is silly (ahem episodes 1-3).

I'm all for the discussion, except that it's been done to death and there hasn't been any recent news regarding the status. I play SWTOR because it's fun and just because some company said "this probably didn't happen in our version" doesn't mean I have to adhere to that.

Plus the way things are currently, nothing has really been made SW wise that really makes this and most other material contradictory. Until something comes out that blatantly makes it's so story X Y Z did not happen, it's all SW and gravy to me.

They can't make everything under the sw title the same or people would lose interest fast.

The reason the EU gets a lot of "disrespect" is due to some of it's cult like followers who were virtually demanding that any future movies be about Thrawn and Luke and Mara Jade and whatever other nonsense. They're like comic book purist discussing superhero movies. They piss people off acting like they have some authority or they are the experts on the subject and then wonder why there is so much schadenfreude when their hopes get crushed.

Ha ha, yep.

When I've encountered discussion of comics (I never got into because there were far too many issues/storylines crossovers and so on) I'm interested so long as the person isn't being a jerk. Knowing the subject matter never pissed me off nor threatened me that they might be an expert on something I knew little to nothing about.

I haven't encountered jerks in that matter except typical internet one liners the real soandso was the one made by thatartist/writer everything else was crap.

To me it sounds like if the person wasn't being a jerk about what they knew "expert in EU" then the real problem is with the person who's upset that they didn't know the information because this other nerd is a bigger nerd who consumed more of the sw content released into the world.

Oh, yeah? I agree with him less often than you do. Make it Tres Equis.

"Canon" has been used for decades in the form we are using it in this thread.

Sure there is, but if you don't believe there are any standards of officiality or whatever in any fiction universe, I guess the point is mute.

Ummmm, they confirmed at Celebration that SWTOR was non-canon. If you like, you can watch the Canon Panel that was hosted at Celebration back in April (which I was at and even got one of my questions answered in fact), and they flat out said: SWTOR is not canon, but that doesn't mean they want to touch it because they like it. A lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9dsXuH8VE

Some of us actually do roleplay and try to keep our roleplay as accurate as possible. Even though it is a story and someone wrote it, having things go off in a million directions can create a problem for some roleplayers especially if they are the type that write forum roleplays.

I know the group I roleplay with (mainly the forum roleplay) do take the time to go and research something, whether it is a weapon, a planet, or something else so we can figure out how to tie the weapon, etc. into the time line we are working on.