I feel sorry for everyone who invested their time and money in those things. So none of the games are cannon either, like The Old Republic?
Why?
It's not like the books disappear off the shelf or the games cease to exist, never to be played again.
Shit's all fictional. None of it happened. It only "counts" as much as you want it to count. If you liked it - count it.
I just recently read "I, Jedi" for the first time a couple months ago - after I knew it didn't "count." Didn't change my appreciation of it any. (It was just okay at best)
Yeah, I believe that was the rumor. I don't even think that rumor is legit anymore, but that's just a guess on my part.
The rumor was just that the first thing we see is the hand clutching the lightsaber, as it tumbles towards a planet. I believe that was the entirety of it. I don't remember if he said that was all we see, or that we actually follow the hand through the atmosphere. It's entirely possible that hand and the lightsaber are then followed by some debris, and the remains of a ship, and then the Falcon blasts into view, followed by two TIE fighters... and then we follow THOSE guys down to the planet.