Tom Bacon is Head of Screen Rant's Star Wars coverage. Although he's now dedicated to Star Wars content, he's a lifelong fan of several other major franchises including Doctor Who and Marvel. You can find him on Twitter @TomABacon.
Ten years ago, Disney reset the rules of Star Wars canon - and within a decade, it's all gone terribly wrong. Most viewers think of Star Wars as a film franchise, but it's always been so much more. I'm one of the more unusual viewers; I watched A New Hope back in 1991 and picked up one of Timothy Zahn's New York Times bestselling novels just a few days later . I'm as comfortable with the Star Wars Expanded Universe as I am with any of the movies.
The old Expanded Universe was far too restrictive for this. Pretty much the entire timeline had been mapped out, from the dawn of the Jedi to events a full century after the Skywalker saga . What's more, the sheer intricacy and detail of the lore was felt to be a barrier to new viewers. It took Lucasfilm two years to decide on a reset, branding the EU"Legends" and ushering in a new era in which - they promised - everything was now equally canon.
There's a sense in which it doesn't matter how good the Lucasfilm Story Group is at keeping an eye on continuity. The Star Wars galaxy is growing too quickly, and contradictions will inevitably creep in. The task was an impossible one - and so, in recognition of this, Lucasfilm seem to have subtly changed the remit.
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