Originally posted by Kurk
Well I'm looking to be somewhat of a proficient disney-canon debater in the future so if no is the straight-up answer good.
You won't get a straight answer, because they are and are not Canon at the same time.
Example Sidious uses FL on Luke in the movie to torture him. The movie shows this, the script tells us this and the novel tells us this.
So it's all correct in what is shown, which is what was said about as long as they align with what is shown on screen it's ok.
Of course you don't really need to use the novels since aligning with what is seen on screen you may as well just watch the movies, at best they might just give a tad more information in the scene.
Originally posted by ares834
That it's officially licensed material is irrelevant to it's use in a debate. It's simply non-canon, just like the rest of the EU.
Well it's relevant in that Canon just copies and pastes a whole load of pages from it.
E.g. It's taken all the Lightsaber forms with just a few minor adjustments.
This is a bit complicated. I'll just show a video from YouTube of how novelizations of Star Wars movies can be used in debates.
The ROTS movie poorly portrayed the scene were Palpatine killed Jedis. The novelization however explains this in a way that would make sense to all.