Cpl Kendall wrote:I'm curious as to the point of even mentioning the EU and continuity. If you hadn't, we'd still be merrily bashing the Republics dumb-arse designs rather then pointlessly nitpicking the canon status of Lucas's gravy train.
Because we've never seen cloaking devices before. It was exciting. I've been wondering what they could actually do for years, myself, so I ate "Cat and Mouse" right up like a kid in a candy store, rather than sitting there rattling off EU (non-)contradictions.
Besides which . . . most people, if they're paying it any mind, have pretty much figured out that Lucas is running TCW, and that he's rolling all over the EU. Hence the Karen Traviss departure and all the EU-phile wailing and gnashing of teeth. It's pretty much a dead argument at this point.
(No offense intended by that statement, I'm just sayin' that the idea that the Expanded Universe has any sway in the Lucas universe is an outmoded idea that's dying off pretty quickly. Mostly you hear these days of people bitchin' how Lucas is pooping all over it (especially when Filoni tries to get him to use some bit of EU but he only uses half (e.g. Ryloth), and then his half poops on what EU was left).
I just don't hear a lot of people still trying to defend the idea that the EU counts for much in the Lucas universe. Most interested people have heard at least a quote or two of Lucas saying it was a parallel, separate universe, and between all those various quotes and his treatment of the EU with TCW they've pretty much gotten the idea that Lucas has been trying to convey for years now.)
