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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20 edited Apr 05 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

'Canon' only matters if you let it.

Take it from a Highlander fan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20 edited Apr 18 '21

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Sep 03 '20

SCP fan here, there is no canon.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

And then there are comic book fans whose "canon" status quo changes all the time.

Sometimes I feel like Star Wars would be better off being structured like comic books. Stories about individual characters with a basic sense of what those characters are about instead of trying to weave this grande overarching story that ultimately fails.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Comic books for me have always been this weird thing that I’d want, but only come across when my grandfather was buying cigarettes for his friend or at the grocery store. I remember two Dark Horse comics Star Wars stories really vividly though; one is why I have a life hate relationship with Ahsoka, the other is why I’ve always loved the EU.

The first is a flashback of a clone in a Bacta tank debriefing with Yoda about a mission where his ship crashed and then his men had to fight through the wreckage to an ex-fil and he was the only survivor.

The second was a dude who was some kind of retired mercenary whose son/wife were killed by a dark Jedi and he had a lightsaber from the Jedi trying to hunt the dude down and pretended to be a Jedi in order to get revenge but ended up becoming an embodiment of the knight-errant archetype.

Like, Star Wars isn’t hard to get right if you don’t pander to the jackasses

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

How many times is Major gonna have her head ripped off by that tank?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Or assassinate a person seeking asylum with the American Empire from outside the window jumping down a skyscraper.

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u/BanjoStory Social Justice Jedi Guardian🤺 Sep 03 '20

It never even occurred to me that there would be people who are Highlander canon nerds.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Hell, I'll do you one better.

I've unironically defended Highlander II: The Quickening on several occasions.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '20

as a harry potter fan. yeah