The Only Way You Could Actually Argue Was Maybe If You Set Up Specific Texts Or Shows That The Debate Could Have As Evidence - Tumblr Posts

asocial-skye

2 years ago

Reading over debates and flame wars on this site about the Jedi, Sith or literally anything about Star Wars made me realize how truly futile it is to have true debates on canon. You just can't.

All of the retcons, continuity errors, levels of canon and the differences between Legends and Disney canon just make everyone's arguments valid in their own selected universes. You can't really expect other people to simply drop their universes that they grew up with, bought merchandise and became attached (ironic) to in terms of characters. Having a discussion about worldbuilding or characterization is practically impossible.

It's like arguing on Luke's characterization, only one person in the discussion is using the Star Wars universe and the other is using the Percy Jackson universe as their basis. There's no connection; you're all right in your own universes. And it all just goes round and round and round forever.

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star wars starwars fandom meta prequel trilogy original trilogy sequel trilogy pt OT st s/w seriously you're all arguing in different universes what is canon even the only way you could actually argue was maybe if you set up specific texts or shows that the debate could have as evidence give prep time and then have the debate sw fandom even the filters can't even be agreed on disney and legends had a hard on for the “deconstruct the fairytale” lense so all of the problems of the OT and PT can be viewed through that deconstruction lense and boy are they problematic from that do you specifically have to use the fairytale lense for the first six movies and a denconstruction lense for everything else

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