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   Jill Marie to Duggy   
   Re: What is 'canon' re: Star Wars?   
   24 Nov 08 17:08:00   
   
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   From: jill-marie@NOSPAMatt.net   
      
   Duggy wrote:   
   > On Nov 23, 5:17 pm, Jill Marie  wrote:   
   >> Then, we have:   
   >   
   >> "G" canon - anything coming from Uncle George, the films, notes and can   
   >> we assume, anything GL has pulled out of his butt in interviews?   
   >> "T" canon - TV canon - I wonder if this can include the Holiday Special?   
   >>     It was on TV.   
   >> "C" canon - comics, EU books - Obviously, Sith Wars fit into this.   
   >> "S" canon - all the other s*^t Lucasfilm has out there...   
   >> "N" canon - oh no you didn't   
   >> "Y" canon - why?  because we love you.   
   >> "JM" canon - the Holy Grail of SW canon   
   >   
   > Honestly I've found that to be very stupid myself.   
      
   Me too.  Keep it simple, stupids.   
      
   1st, 2nd, 3rd...   
      
      
   > I always figured.   
   >   
   > Canon - the films.   
      
   Including the novelizations and script (cut scenes)?   
      
   > Expanded Universe - the other stuff.   
   > Non-continuity - things specifically ignored (Holiday Special,   
   > Infinities, Fanfic, anything by Kevin J Anderson.)   
      
   I'd put FanFic above KJA.  Wait, I'd put the Holiday Special above KJA   
   and Crystal Star and Children of the Jedi...   
      
      
   > I certainly don't like calling everything a "letter"-canon.  I prefer   
   > to think of those as lines, threads or strings...   
   >   
   > N-String - stuff "unthreaded" from the main line.   
   > S-String - the tuffy bits that have unwounded from the main string.   
   > T-String - bits mostly joined to the main string.   
   > G-String - a type of underwear.   
      
   Yeah, I hate those continuous wedgies...   
      
      
   ~~jill marie   
      
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