Timeline for Why did Leia rush to Yavin, instead of changing ships or finding tracking device?
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 20:05 | comment | added | NKCampbell | @JasonBaker thanks for the @ reminder and the info - and I think their second tweet makes my inital point that the orginal novels are dubious and not to be entirely trusted - DelRey says: "To clarify, movie novelizations are canon where they align with what is seen on screen in the 6 films and the Clone Wars animated movie." So they are only reliable when consistent. In other words, if somebody were to ask "did Luke's landspeeder have a closed cockpit" the answer is 'no' because it wasn't closed in the film, despite what the novel says. Does that make sense?(and truly - thanks for the info!) | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 20:00 | comment | added | Jason Baker | (sidenote: don't forget to @-reply; you get all notifcations here, because this is your post, but I don't). Del Rey Books? theforce.net/story/front/… Admittedly I can't remember when the new novelizations were announced, but I'm fair sure it was in 2015, after those tweets from Del Rey | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 19:51 | comment | added | Jason Baker | As I said, I have no interest in arguing over the canonicity of the novelization. I only wanted to correct your misconception that G-Canon was converted into Legends | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | NKCampbell | @JasonBaker did you see the additional comment by Richard? (I also included it above) It seems to indicate that the novels are only canon where they are consistent with the films. It would be helpful if there was a definitive source for this info - Wookieepedia as well as SW.com seem to indicate only the films, Clone Wars, and Rebels, and any new books, comics are valid. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I've just yet to see a source that contradicts these: starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon --- starwars.com/news/… | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 19:41 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @NathanK.Campbell Not going to comment on the canonicity of the 40-year-old novelization, but the answer you link to indicates that the former G-Canon was rolled into the current Disney canon, not legends. The current Legends consists of some T-Canon (the cell-shaped Clone Wars show) and most everything below | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 19:05 | comment | added | NKCampbell | @DVK - I was misreading your comment "if she gave the info they wouldn't need to worry about the tracking device" I was reading they to mean Han / Leia / Luke. Not the Imperials. So when I said, "they aren't worrying about it" - I was saying the rebels aren't worried about. Sorry for the confusion! | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | NKCampbell | (cont) - from a comment in that thread: "The ruling is that the novelisations are mixed canon. Where they show events that happened in the films, they're canon. Where they show events that didn't happen in the films, they're "legends" canon (e.g. non-canon)." that's dubious pedigree to me :) | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:56 | comment | added | NKCampbell | There are numerous discrepancies in the novel and film and this thread indicates that G-Canon is now Legends: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/… But, I'll remove that editorial comment :) | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:52 | history | edited | NKCampbell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
updated clarification
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:51 | comment | added | Valorum | The novelisations don't have "dubious canonical pedigree", they've always been considered to be G-canon and now Disney Canon where they explain the events of the films. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:49 | history | edited | NKCampbell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
updated clarification
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:48 | comment | added | NKCampbell | And, in Vader's defense, it did work...mostly. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:46 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | " I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work." - yes they are. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:45 | comment | added | NKCampbell | Except they aren't really. Since, as you rightly say - they (apparently) just continue on their merry way to the secret rebel base. She is a politician after all - she may just be establishing plausible deniability... ;) | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:44 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | If she gave the info, they wouldn't need to worry about the tracking device, which they are. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 18:40 | history | answered | NKCampbell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |