A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

The dust jacket resembles the Series One packaging, right down to the faux wax paper wrapper! (C) 2015 Abrams ComicArts and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) A long time ago in an apartment building far, far away, I started collecting Topps Star Wars trading cards. It was the autumn of 1977 and George Lucas's space-fantasy film was still in its long, record-setting first run in theaters. Kenner Toys was frantically attempting to make the first batch of action figures and other toys in time for that year's Christmas shopping season - but wouldn't quite make it. Marvel Comics' six-issue series was still only in Issue # 3, and there was no Internet or social media like there is today for fans across the globe to exchange opinions or discuss plot points of the year's most popular movie.  And because the home video revolution was still a few years away, fans could only "bring the movie home" in a bare handful of ways: The novelization by George Lucas (

This will always be the "core canon" of Star Wars, even under the House of the Mouse. (C) 2015 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Does Disney-owned Lucasfilm ignore the old Star Wars 'Expanded Universe' when determining canon? Pretty much, yes. I understand that a vocal group of  Star Wars  fans (which don’t represent the vast majority of  Star Wars  fandom but nevertheless make lots of noise, especially online) feels that the old Expanded Universe, aka  Star Wars  Legends, is not the primary source for the Sequel Trilogy and languishes, according to them, in The Walt Disney Company’s equivalent of purgatory. Apparently, for many fans, especially those who were teens and/or young adults in the Dark Times between the Classic Trilogy and the Prequels, the Expanded Universe  was  the  Star Wars  universe, only instead of movies, its main fare was a series of novels, comic books, graphic novels, and a plethora of video games, spac

(C) 2007 Sony Classical and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) On November 7, 2007, Sony Classical's Masterworks label released The Music of Star Wars: 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition, an eight-CD box set that reissued the three Special Edition soundtracks from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi in their full glory. In addition, the collection includes Star Wars: The Corellian Edition, a 2005 compilation of Star Wars' greatest hits from the six movies then in existence. (Lucasfilm was still an independent company and the Sequel Trilogy was something that existed only in the imaginations of a few hopeful fans.) Sony Classical Masterworks' concept? Repackage the CDs as replicas of the 1977, 1980, and 1983 original LP albums. (C) 2007 Sony Classical and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) And to complement the 434 minutes of composer-conductor John Williams' scores for the Original Trilogy, Sony also packed a CD-ROM which contains "digital fi