Doctoglethorpe
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canon was always heavily discussed in the star wars community, and the highest level of canon was always the movies (and their officials novels), so personally I dont think anything changed.
it was also always clear to me that future movies would not respect the books, comics and games. that would have been terrible, I dont want to deal with palpatine clones or the aftermath of darkside luke or anything. but I do admit it's weird to adjust to an alternate universe where apparently the empire was not defeated and seems to still be in charge. but I am actually quite eager to see what officially happened in those 30 years and what kind of setting we will see.
Yeah the only real change that occurred is that for now on material that would have been C-Canon (that is, books, comics, games, etc, sources that the movies were always free to contradict) will now be G-Canon (true canon, in-line with the movies)
The cost was that all past C-Canon, the EU, is being left behind. But it was already being left behind to begin with really. A potential new movie was always going to contradict it. People focus on this side of the announcement but don't consider that obvious fact. The real annoucnement was not that the EU was dead, but that going forward there wouldn't even be a debate about Movie canon vs EU canon, there would just be one canon and it would all fit together, but a clean slate was needed to allow that. End of the day, it was a good thing.
Of course on a personal level I think they should have brought a few things into the new canon from the EU. Like the Plagueis novel and Kotor. But thats just me being choosey about my favorite EU stuff. And the truth is, until theres a real damaging contradiction to those stories, I have absolutely no reason not to continue considering them as having happened. They are still in my headcanon. I dunno why everyone doesn't think the same way. Love Kotor? It hasn't been contradicted yet so why do you insist on not believing it happened? Wait until that contradiction actually happens, if it ever does, and then deal with that. Otherwise you're just replacing something with nothing.