Originally posted by dadudemon
Nope: not how it works. Same character, same franchise, it's a movie. etc. etc. etc. Just deal with it and move on. Surely there are other arguments to be made other than "Vader cannot block the blast with his saber"?You could argue that since the CW Film covered Anakin and not Vader that technically, it doesn't count. However, that would be asinine and bad form, imo. As we saw when Obi-Wan cut up a pre-suit Vader, he has the same powers and abilities: it was just a name change similar to Abhram changing his name to Abraham when he become a servant of God: Anakin just become a servant of Sidious. ;D
However, The Clone Wars is T-Canon.
According to the series creators, continuity with the other Expanded Universe works is being taken very seriously by the series' creators, with Dave Filoni being well-versed in the Expanded Universe. However, Dave Filoni has defended any differences in continuity: "But theres never an implicit connection between the micro-series that Cartoon Network did previously and the series that were doing now. I personally as a fan never think of it as discrediting any of the other material, its just that other material is from a different point of view, a different look at the war and take on the war. Its an ever-Expanding Universe in a lot of ways."
Different point of view in a toon sense. T canon isn't the highest form of canon. It isn't canon to the love action films and is directly contradictory to those portrayals of the characters.