Size of Star Wars armies

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Well, you have people here who are new to this and you forgot to mention those minor details.
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What the canon tree is for is so that if there are contradictions, people know what overrides what.
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"Sort of" cannon seems a bit like "a little" pregnant to me.
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There's no "sort of" canon. It's all canon. Just some canon overrides others.
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In other words, "it's cannon unless I change my mind and think of something that works better." ? :roll:
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No, more like "it's canon, as long as it doesn't contradict the films". That's the basis of it. Then other levels were added because obviously you don't want games being able to contradict novels.
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Seems more complicated than the Trek way of "not on screen, not canon"
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It's more complicated, but for over sixteen years the only live-action Star Wars were four films (and yes, I do mean four, however much everyone might wish it was three). Trek has cranking out live action stuff pretty consistently since TMP.
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Captain Seafort wrote:It's more complicated, but for over sixteen years the only live-action Star Wars were four films (and yes, I do mean four, however much everyone might wish it was three). Trek has cranking out live action stuff pretty consistently since TMP.
You mean that Ewok film?
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Nope - the Holiday Special. Rochey posted a link to it once, which he might be able to dig out again provided the thought doesn't reduce him to a gibbering wreck.
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There are THREE!!!!

The Great Abomination does not exist. It never has and it never shall. And, hypotheticaly, even if in some hypothetical way it did exist, I'm sure we'd all hypotheticaly have no problem agreeing to colectively agree that such a film would hypotheticaly be utter shit and give the metaphorical finger to all involved in the hypthetical trainwreck in question.
Hypotheticaly speaking, that is.

Captain Seafort wrote: Rochey posted a link to it once, which he might be able to dig out again provided the thought doesn't reduce him to a gibber wreck.
I do happen to still know where it is. A simple Youtube search turns it up easily enough. This is one thing Lucas isn't going to be bothered suing to take down. Particularly given that it aired a grand total of once, and only a handful of videos were ever sold, thus ironicaly making it probably the rarest piece of Star Wars in existance.
Mark, check it out here if you want. I'm fairly certain I'm the only one on this forum to have ever braved watching the film in its entirety. And I paid for that viewing with my very soul.

Highlights from the movie:
The first 15 minutes of the film is composed purely of Wookiees talking in their own language. That's right, we don't here people speaking until about 15 minutes in.
The most annoying wookiee ever.
The most fucking bizzare cook show ever.
Wookiee porn. Seriously; wookiee porn. I kid you not. There is wookiee porn.
Stormtroopers listening to a band called Jefferson Starship singing into a glowing pink dildo.
The most awful cartoon you'll ever see.
Boba Fett's first ever appearance outside of ANH. That poor bastard.
Some sort of acid-trip ending with Leia singing a Christmas Life-Day song.

Seriously, I defy anyone here to endure the full thing without throwing themselves out a window.
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