The idea of Star Wars canon needs to be rethought

I'm probably gonna get downvoted into oblivion for this, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while...It seems as if true Star Wars fans (myself included) are addicted to the canon on some level. Whether it’s “Han shot first,” or how close Tarkin is standing to Leia on the Death Star, there are plenty of places where canon doesn’t line up perfectly.When the final season of Rebels came out, I was a bit annoyed that the final battle between Maul and Ahsoka didn’t play out the same way it did in the book “Ahsoka.” By the same token, it annoyed me that the scene at the beginning of The Bad Batch wasn’t the same as it was played out in the comic “Kanan.” While I understand the annoyance with the inconsistencies, sometimes I think we, as fans, get a bit too deep in the weeds.Diehard Star Wars fans are familiar with The Journal of the Whills. For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Whills are/were a race of beings who wrote the stories we know collectively as “Star Wars.” These stories are/were written down to share what happened, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.”So here’s the thing about written stories: Any story, whether it’s religious, mythical, or just for fun, is open to interpretation when it comes to details. What elevation on Mount Olympus did Zeus reside? Doesn’t matter. Was Jesus born in a wooden stable or a stable built into a cave? Doesn’t matter. The message of the stories and the lives of the people in those stories are what matters. While it can be fun to get into the minutiae, when it comes down to it, it doesn’t matter who shot first. The result was the same: Han cooked Greedo. Han escaped. Han met Luke, Ben, and Leia. The story continued.The biggest takeaway I get from the Star Wars films, books, comics, and TV shows is that there’s a “galaxy far, far away” where awesome stuff happens. Maybe Poe was a wiseass while attacking a dreadnought...or not. Maybe Rex and Sant are the same person...or maybe not. And maybe (I said MAYBE) Han really didn't shoot first.The same way stories on Earth are changed as they’re handed down, the Star Wars films, books, comics, and TV shows are merely a writer’s interpretation of what was written in The Journal of the Whills. Star Wars is our modern mythos. The details don’t matter. The story does. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/3dqax3y