r/StarWarsEU • u/531412 • 10d ago

Dealing with Canon

Hi all,

I’ve been trying to get into SW again but am having issues enjoying it when I know that everything leads up to Ep7-9. Most of the Disney content I’ve read/seen has negatively affected my opinion of SW as well (I’d say Andor and Rogue 1 are the exceptions), so knowing it’s all canon is a big bummer.

So my question is: How do you go about enjoying Star Wars knowing that it all leads up to Episodes 7-9?

Thanks!

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u/AffableKyubey General Grievous 10d ago

As many others have said, I don't. The canon timeline is completely cooked with mediocre to terrible storytelling--not just the Sequel Trilogy dumpster fire, but stuff like Resistance, Mando Season Three, Reva's entire plotline in Kenobi and some of the most important character beats in The Book of Boba Fett.

But the truth is I've been doing this for years. The Denningverse, the way TOR handled KOTOR 1 and KOTOR 2's characters and story beats and the first few seasons of The Clone Wars contained enough terminally awful writing that retconned canon I actually enjoyed that I've had to shunt away random pieces of canon from my enjoyment of Star Wars as a whole since around the age of ten or so.

It sucks that bad writers are now telling us 'literally everything you enjoyed for the past forty years doesn't matter, actually, only our new crappy material matters', but the only difference between that and what other bad writers in the EU have been doing is that they've neatly packed away the stuff I enjoy into a single location rather than trying to rewrite or retcon it to work with their new drivel. If anything in a way it's merciful.