re: Star Wars: Episode VII': Release set for December 18, 2015

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They are.

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then Shadows, the Zahn Novels, and NJO are canon because they unlike a lot of the EU were directly commissioned by Lucasfilm. Its like I just said with Marvel. They can do their own versions and I wish they would actually. That adds to the best thing about Star Wars ie The Power of Myth. What makes the OT great is that is a timeless story because the characters are all mythical archetypes.

Case in point Lucas himself directly wrote the basic treatment/story bible for the NJO. Do you think it directly contradicts the treatments he wrote for 7/8/9 that they are using? Possibly but why would he have two completely different story treatments to tell basically the same story? People tend to treat the EU as fan fiction and some of it is. But the EU has different levels, when its stuff directly commissioned by Lucasfilm with action figures, video games, cameo's in movies I'm pretty sure that means its canon.