The journey of Anakin's lightsaber

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Three times, if you count Star Trek (2009).

One of that movie’s annoyances was that Spock, far away at warp speed could watch Vulcan being destroyed live, rather than years later at light speed, looking like it was just above the planet he was on. J. J. Abrams did it again with The Force Awakens. Han and friends watched all the planets in another star system get destroyed, live, looking like it was just above the planet they were on. Both movies were in the same universe.

Both had the orphaned kid doing the hero’s journey, going up against a planet killer controlled by a bad tempered guy with a personal vendetta.

Granted, Kirk found Old Spock earlier in the movie than Old Skywalker was found in Force Awakens. And Kirk didn’t get his super powers (healing) until the second movie.

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The last season, except for the finale, is legitimately good.

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What do you have against Space Nazis?

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Star Wars, Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars:
Return of the Jedi… what else is there?

Oh right, the Christmas/“Life Day” special!

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The consensus is that the first of the new trilogy also counts.

Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Episode VIII: The Force Stares Blankly From a Window
Episode IX: The Force Wonders When It All Went Wrong

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Episode VIII: The Force Hits the Snooze Button
Episode IX: The Force Turns Off the Alarm, Calls In Sick, Takes a Me Day

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If the new one counts because it has Solo, then we may as well count the old Marvel comics – which were authorized by Lucas at the time and are surely re-canon now that Disney owns Star Wars and Marvel. And if we allow that, Luke is good friends with a telepathic space rabbit (Hoojib) named Plif.

Is that a world you want to live in?

So I say again:
Star Wars
(maybe Star Wars Holiday Special)
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi

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The new one counts because it’s a Star Wars movie. The old comics (and the gorram Holiday Special) are most certainly not canon, though believe me, I’d like to see Jaxxon pop up in the movies.

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Nope. It counts because people found it entertaining.

The prequel trilogy had several original trilogy characters, is considered canon, but many still want to forget it.

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Didn’t the Holiday Special introduce Boba Fett?

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It did! It also introduced the Wookiee planet of Kashyyyk. They kept the good bits but things like Gormandaa, the four-armed chef, and the VR helmet made to view Wookiee porn weren’t made part of the canon universe. Yet.

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Not sure that I believe that… the “found it entertaining” part, not just the part where that’s a good enough basis to count.

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All of the new Star Wars movies, books, comics, TV shows, etc. are officially canon unless they’re LEGO or they say “Star Wars Legends” on them.

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I’m going to back up a second: you’re aware everything precedes this is a joke abut how everything after the first three movies sucks, right? That’s it. A joke.

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Plif was awesome!

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At no point did I actually think that you were seriously declaring that the prequels weren’t actually movies or that the new movie didn’t count as a sequel, but since you seemed to be pretty serious about the Lucas-authorized Marvel comics being semi-canon, I figured, hey, may as well clarify what’s canon these days, since a lot of fans seem to be confused about it.

I get jokes, but I give people more credit than that.

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