What’s with this official “canon” business? Isn’t canon a religious term, pertaining to religious laws or doctrines? Is star wars somehow considered in that way by the true blue fans of these movies? Does this new movie somehow deviate so much from the other storylines as to be said to not belong?
I have seen the new movie so can’t comment. But this seems like a strong negative reaction by some of the most devoted Star Wars fans.
a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works - the canon of great literature
I guess that qualifies. True fans don't want this latest installment associated with the other movies.
Incidental, after Empire Strikes Back I gave up on the series.
“What’s with this official “canon” business?”
After the original 3 movies, there were a lot of other stories that came out set in the “Star Wars universe”, from books, comic books, tv shows, video games, the role playing game, etc, all from different authors. A lot of that came out before the prequels movies done by George Lucas and sometimes ended up conflicting with what was in the prequels.
When Disney bought the property, they decided to make almost all of that stuff “non-canon”, meaning not part of the official storyline. Mainly they had to do it because there were books set after the original series, in the same time these new movies are set, but they were not going to adapt those books. So they had to basically say those books, and a lot of other stories, were no longer in continuity with the movies, to avoid a bunch of conflicting storylines.
It’s a generic term for things accepted as part of the whole work. It got applied to the Bible because there’s a whole bunch of books that have been declared non-canon. But it actually comes from a Greek musical term.
NERDS!!
I’m getting the feeling that the people most disappointed are the loons that actually think there is something to this “force” stuff. Seriously.
From what I’m reading in the articles, it sounds like it’s a good movie. Sometimes if certain people don’t like a movie it means I will like it.