"But there's no story past Episode VI, there's just no story. It's a certain story about Anakin Skywalker and once Anakin Skywalker dies, that's kind of the end of the story. There is no story about Luke Skywalker, I mean apart from the books. But there's three worlds: There's my world that I made up, there's the licensing world that's the books, the comics, all that kind of stuff, the games, which is their world, and then there's the fans' world, which is also very rich in imagination, but they don't always mesh. All I'm in charge of is my world. I can't be in charge of those other people's world, because I can't keep up with it."
These are the ones that get thrown at me, usually by purists and Trekkies. I think of it being as Lucas just giving his opinion on it saying he didn't write anything beyond that and is only talking about it from the movies perspective. I cannot help but feel like the quotes are taken too literally and if it really did make the EU non-canon then Wookieepedia and Leland Chee would have labeled it as so, correct?"I've left pretty explicit instructions for there not to be any more features. There will definitely be no Episodes VII-IX. That's because there isn't any story. I mean, I never thought of anything. And now there have been novels about the events after Episode VI, which isn't at all what I would have done with it. The Star Wars story is really the tragedy of Darth Vader. That is the story. Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married..."
Other times when I bring up how it's still apart of the continuity I get this "It's apart of a different universe" excuse because of Lucas saying he considers it apart of a parallel universe. This is mostly brought up by Trekkies I encounter. I've read the stickies dealing with the Canon quotes and I understand that the ones posted there are valid but the quotes I posted are somewhat recent but don't appear to be discussed anywhere here.
In a nutshell: What is everyone elses take on the above quotes? Are they just Lucas' opinion and not an official statement or do they really affect the overall continuity of Star Wars rendering post-ROTJ or other EU not canon? Or is the EU really apart of some "parallel universe" like some claim?
I understand not everyone looks at Star Wars the same way and fans have a right to pick their own canon, but when it comes to discussions and debates the EU is usually used as an example.
The only difference is, Gene Roddenberry is dead and George Lucas isn't.
