Back in the Star Wars EU days my mantra was “it’s canon of you want it to be” because the official thing where different sources had different levels of canon created massive unresolved contradictions anyway.
canon is just continuity from a more zoomed out perspective, you a gOoD sToRy freaks wouldn’t tolerate that shit in an individual story unless it was deliberately using it as a device, you shouldn’t accept it in worldbuilding.
Which could or could not be important to the story in question. Setting continuity is not important in the movie where John Wick shoots 187 people in the face because he’s mad about his dog
Star Trek is one of my favorite IPs and they took canon out back and shot it in the head on day one
the dog one is the first story, it literally only could have internal issues.
but once you have a sequel or second episode it’s always important to the story, because fucking it up undermines everything. You can go full dexter’s lab and reset everything every time, but once you put on the mantle of continuity and ask us to care about events over time then you owe us better than voyager. A “good story” that ignores all the other ones and in turn be ignored by them isn’t actually good.
I have come around to the rigid and dogmatic belief that all fiction is fan fiction and authorship isn’t very important.
Back in the Star Wars EU days my mantra was “it’s canon of you want it to be” because the official thing where different sources had different levels of canon created massive unresolved contradictions anyway.
Only knights of the old republic is canon, actually
That, and the Ewoks tv series.
Also canon is not at all important when compared to just telling a good story
canon is just continuity from a more zoomed out perspective, you a gOoD sToRy freaks wouldn’t tolerate that shit in an individual story unless it was deliberately using it as a device, you shouldn’t accept it in worldbuilding.
I agree with you. Rhetorically, what is the demarcation between a one-off story and a greater world?
Which could or could not be important to the story in question. Setting continuity is not important in the movie where John Wick shoots 187 people in the face because he’s mad about his dog
Star Trek is one of my favorite IPs and they took canon out back and shot it in the head on day one
the dog one is the first story, it literally only could have internal issues.
but once you have a sequel or second episode it’s always important to the story, because fucking it up undermines everything. You can go full dexter’s lab and reset everything every time, but once you put on the mantle of continuity and ask us to care about events over time then you owe us better than voyager. A “good story” that ignores all the other ones and in turn be ignored by them isn’t actually good.
Oh bloody hell please just go and tell this to all Dune psychofans untill their eyes start to bleed with ink.