Originally posted by Emperordmb
HOLY **** THANK YOU HOLY SHITI have dealt with people claiming the novelization is just as valid as the movie just because "LUCAS LOOKED AT AND EDITED TEH MANUSCRIPT!!!" And now I have the evidence to shut those people down.
Anyone worth responding twice knows the novel is only canon if not contradicted...
Originally posted by Beniboybling
Well anyway did a little investigation into the contexts of that Bastila quote, and found something interesting:"In the [b]Star Wars Miniatures Game
, Bastila could be thought of as a second-tier Jedi. She's clearly not as capable as characters such as Mace Windu, Jedi Master; Yoda, Jedi Master; or Darth Vader, Jedi Hunter; but she's roughly on par with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master or Darth Tyranus. Although her Defense and Attack are a bit low for a character of this cost, Triple Attack more than makes up for it. She also has Lightsaber Sweep and Lightsaber Deflect, again nicely fitting this second-tier niche."So essentially it's only putting Bastila on par with Kenobi and Dooku in the contexts of this game. Because they possess similar stats or abilities, but nowhere suggests this is true of actual continuity. Lmao. [/B]
Love it.
Beni, while I personally don't subscribe to the notion blurbs are canonical, you made clear you do, so I'd like to draw the following back to your attention:
"Once the most powerful Knight ever known to the Jedi Order, he is now a disciple of the dark side, a lord of the dreaded Sith, and the avenging right hand of the galaxy’s ruthless new Emperor."
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Lol, is that from the RotS novel?
EDIT: Ah it's from Luceno's "sequel", cool. Anyway, I'm reading the RotS novel now and my impression is that Stover certainly intended to depict Anakin to be the most powerful Jedi ever, as reflected in that blurb, but Canon has evidently gone with Lucas' original intentions (as the ANH + ROTJ novels attests to) that Vader > Anakin. Too bad I guess. 👆
EDIT: One might also argue that because of that from a Legends perspective the OT novels are more reliable, yeah.
Originally posted by NewGuy01Lucas worked closely with all the authors, including those of the OT novelisations. He's also changed his mind more than once, hence why I said "original intentions." But he's gone now, so who cares. 🙂
Actually, in regards to Lucas, I'm not so sure. Pretty sure Lucas was the one Stover got that impression from in the first place; other people that worked closely with Lucas (like Nick Gillard and {forgot name}) have said similar things.So has George himself, actually.