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Originally Posted by pwalker8
So, my assumption is that the all the movies are still considered canon, though there are some fairly big inconsistencies in the movies once you get past the original trilogy.
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Originally Posted by DrNefario
The Star Wars Extended Universe was officially canon until Disney...
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Concerns about what is 'canon' are what bother me so much about continuity.
Frank Miller did a legendary Batman story called The Dark Knight Returns, imagining Batman old and broken in the future.
Then there were concerns about if it was canon. Who cares? The series stands on its own. I don't expect ever Batman story written after to be guided in a way that won't contradict The Dark Knight Returns.
Just enjoy the stories for what they are.
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Secondary material like that can become a bit of a ball-and-chain. Disney made the right choice by distching it - you can't expect movie goers to know 30 years worth of events that happened since Return of the Jedi, you aren't going to be able to explain everyhing in the opening crawl...
I'm quite happy with a flexible reality where things are free to reinvent themselves and disregard inconvenient bits of the past.
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Yes, I agree.
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I think my favourite reboot strategy is where they acknowledge the past but aren't bound by it, like the start of the new Battlestar Galactica, or the bits in the first episode of Buffy that seem to be referring to the film but actually aren't, or the pick-and-choose attitude of Doctor Who.
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Alan Moore was a master of that in comics (sorry to go back to comics, but that's the field I enjoy where continuity has the most impact).
He would take over an unpopular series and completely reinvent it. He didn't say the past events never happened, but he would recontextualize them. He did it with Captain Britain, Marvelman/Miricleman, Swamp Thing and a cheesy character called Supreme.