I assume you mean novels of the movies, right? Not "The Rise of Boba Fett" and the other hundreds of books, wherein we find the Sunkist-Crush machine and Grand Central Point station?Picard wrote:Here I must say that I do not accept EU as canon at all. Which means that under "lower canon" I meant novels, scripts and radio plays, opposed to movies which are higher canon.
Well then obviously it's Word of God; however from what I read here and on SDN, we got a lot of wanking by the EU-philes themselves who put words in Lucas's mouth, and then attack anyone who disagrees as daring to opposing Lucas.That is simplest solution to EU-phile wank, and supported by Lucas himself.
Oh, they wish-- no matter how it's contravened:Only other option is to accept stance that EU is canon as long as it is not contradicted by so-called G-canon
"Ok, My Lord Sidious, here's what we've got: we can build a giant station 100 miles in diameter which can destroy one planet in a day; it's confined to this galaxy, it'll take 30 years and all our resources to build and maintain, and it can be blown up by a single well-placed torpedo. Or, we can build something that can destroy entire star-systems; it's the size of a one-man fighter, we can build it in no time, it costs next to nothing, it can travel to other galaxies, and it's nigh-indestructible. So which do you prefer? Right, we'll get to work on the Superlaser-section immediately."
"Solo went to hyperspace, he could be anywhere in the galaxy by now- even though there are plenty of ships with intergalactic hyperdrive, I just KNOW that he hasn't gotten on one of those and left the galaxy entirely, despite that the entire Empire's looking for him in this galaxy."
"Mr. Lucas, what do you say about the EU novels? You say it all goes as valid background in your movies, as long as it doesn't expressly contradict them-- even though you never read any of it, and nobody's sorting out the gross inconcistencies?"
Sure, makes sense. At least to the real-life tyrant upon whom Sidious was based, who killed hundreds of thousands of people, often hideously-- but who said that he wasn't a tyrant, because he didn't do anything that the law "expressly said" he couldn't do. (And anyone who publicly disagreed, got silenced without trial for "sedition," even though the law forbade infringing on free speech).
Let's face the obvious: the EU-philes just want the EU for their Willy Wanka numerical figures and superweapon machine-precedents, since otherwise they're left with an nothing but an acid-trip universe of space-knights leaping around waving laser-swords, and using the inexplicable "Force" that no one can explain beyond magic: i.e. an "energy-field" that can't be detected, measured or controlled in any way beyond bestowing freaky magical powers equivalent to voodoo.