T-Canon and CWAS Continuity
While I'd tried to keep myself mostly unspoiled regarding the Clone Wars animated series, after inadvertently finding myself with the trailer before me recently I decided to go looking. And, as it happened, some of the conversation occurred among hardcore EU-philes.
The basic feelings I've seen from them overall range from excitement to alarm to rage, with most on the latter end of the spectrum. Apparently what little information has emerged thus far already ends up "stomping" all over the EU stories from the Clone Wars era, much to the annoyance of EU fans.
Chances are it will only get worse. The prequels required a great deal of EU retconning, but that was only six hours or so worth of film. As one fellow put it, "the TV show only needs to
go 16 episodes to match that, meaning that even one full season of the
show* will have more screentime--and thus introduce more content for
the books to hew to--than the prequels combined."
Given that Lucas doesn't pay too much attention to the EU, this does not bode especially well for EU-Completism-based continuity efforts.
We haven't heard much from Lucas Licensing about this. No doubt at present they are still busy with Indy tie-ins, but with the Clone Wars coming in August they're undoubtedly at work with that as well.
We've known for some time from continuity database coordinator and "Keeper of the Holocron" Leland Chee that the new Lucas-helmed TV titles would be considered "T-Canon" at Licensing, which seemed to just be a sort of holding area for television product until they figured out what to do with it. While I don't pay terribly much attention to the old 'GCSN' rankings for Licensing canon (where G is from Lucas, C is EU, N is non-continuity, et cetera), the emergence of a new level is interesting.
Circa March 17, Chee stated that "T-canon falls between G and C". In May, he noted that it was not EU, and then pointed out (in keeping with Lucas's recent assorted "three pillars" comments) that it was part of the Lucas pillar.
With so much from the Lucas universe coming down the pike, it may become harder and harder for the Licensing universe to retcon itself into consistency. Granted, this need not be an issue, given that Chee has already stated that the EU has some intentional, selected inconsistencies with what Lucas has created. However, the farther they diverge, the harder it will be for EU Completists to maintain their Lucas-discredited claim that it's all one big happy universe.
The basic feelings I've seen from them overall range from excitement to alarm to rage, with most on the latter end of the spectrum. Apparently what little information has emerged thus far already ends up "stomping" all over the EU stories from the Clone Wars era, much to the annoyance of EU fans.
Chances are it will only get worse. The prequels required a great deal of EU retconning, but that was only six hours or so worth of film. As one fellow put it, "the TV show only needs to
go 16 episodes to match that, meaning that even one full season of the
show* will have more screentime--and thus introduce more content for
the books to hew to--than the prequels combined."
Given that Lucas doesn't pay too much attention to the EU, this does not bode especially well for EU-Completism-based continuity efforts.
We haven't heard much from Lucas Licensing about this. No doubt at present they are still busy with Indy tie-ins, but with the Clone Wars coming in August they're undoubtedly at work with that as well.
We've known for some time from continuity database coordinator and "Keeper of the Holocron" Leland Chee that the new Lucas-helmed TV titles would be considered "T-Canon" at Licensing, which seemed to just be a sort of holding area for television product until they figured out what to do with it. While I don't pay terribly much attention to the old 'GCSN' rankings for Licensing canon (where G is from Lucas, C is EU, N is non-continuity, et cetera), the emergence of a new level is interesting.
Circa March 17, Chee stated that "T-canon falls between G and C". In May, he noted that it was not EU, and then pointed out (in keeping with Lucas's recent assorted "three pillars" comments) that it was part of the Lucas pillar.
With so much from the Lucas universe coming down the pike, it may become harder and harder for the Licensing universe to retcon itself into consistency. Granted, this need not be an issue, given that Chee has already stated that the EU has some intentional, selected inconsistencies with what Lucas has created. However, the farther they diverge, the harder it will be for EU Completists to maintain their Lucas-discredited claim that it's all one big happy universe.
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