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Ummon:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 29, 2008, 04:52:50 pm ---It's really stretching the usual definition of the word to apply it to a bunch of modern science fiction books by about 30 different people. It's a bunch of books, yeah, and they have a big following, yeah, but canon just doesn't feel anything like a bunch of Star Wars books.
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Not at all. It's a matter of usage and context. In any literary (or, really any) context, there is a considered canon of examples. These examples fall into a certain category, or even more embody a set of principles that are in mind. On the other hand, it's not exactly arbitrary, though in some cases the literature in question (or, rather, if it can be called that) is pretty thin.
ChadTower:
Dilution of standards. Canon is supposed to mean something and implies real importance. This is mass market science fiction, not Shakespeare.
Ginsu Victim:
Since I haven't bothered to read the canon argument, all I'll say is this:
Anyone other than Lucas writing Star Wars in the current era has to be doing better than him.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 31, 2008, 11:02:27 am ---Anyone other than Lucas writing Star Wars in the current era has to be doing better than him.
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Hehe, now thats the truth. Recently I saw an interview of one of the head guys who just developed the new animated Star Wars movie and originally the new Hutt character spoke Huttese (the language of the Hutts) in the movie, but George Lucas didn't like it and said he wanted him to not only speak english, but he wanted him to sound like Truman Capote. It's difficult to think of a stupidier thing to do to a Star Wars character.
Ummon:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 31, 2008, 01:27:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 31, 2008, 11:02:27 am ---Anyone other than Lucas writing Star Wars in the current era has to be doing better than him.
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Hehe, now thats the truth. Recently I saw an interview of one of the head guys who just developed the new animated Star Wars movie and originally the new Hutt character spoke Huttese (the language of the Hutts) in the movie, but George Lucas didn't like it and said he wanted him to not only speak english, but he wanted him to sound like Truman Capote. It's difficult to think of a stupidier thing to do to a Star Wars character.
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I said it when I found out Lucas ORIGINALLY wanted a musical scene in Hutt's lair: what a bonehead.
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 30, 2008, 09:04:58 pm ---Dilution of standards. Canon is supposed to mean something and implies real importance. This is mass market science fiction, not Shakespeare.
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You're stuck on something here.
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