They are canon, unless stated otherwise. Simply because their abilities may be exaggerated in one work or another, does not mean it's a contradiction.
Likewise, your comparison to Batman suffers from one problem: There was never any occurrence of Batman ever firing Omega beams in any official media. However, there are more than a few official cases of Jedi ripping fighters and cruisers out of the sky, or wiping out armies with just Force Push, or General Grievous before they ruined him in Episode III.
In the animated clone wars...which amp plenty from the movies. I dont consider the feats canon what so ever, as they did stuff solely for sake of being cool not cause made alot of sense. The story holds together fine , but the rule of cool feats were done cause by same people did samurai jack, which had no place in the actual movies. (like Obiwan jousting on a speeder bike or clone troopers swing lining at their target while firing.) See again you fail counter with a feat in the films that disproves what I said. Thats my point, the films are the highest canon, and until they support your arguement, your arguement fails.
As for batman example, hes had super powers on a few occasions actually.(and why are you still replying Mr this over if I was so invalidated already....means you ve diginified my statements as they carry truth then heh.) But your arguement is hey theres a hint of something, there for writers can do whatever heck they want with it. Thats just dumb, like hey lets just make everythnig a deus ex since we can.
Second, a lightsaber will NEVER run out of juice because it's self recharging. The beam loops back into the hilt which recharges the power source.
That may be true, but its still stupid as hell, but I suppose entire concept of lightsaber is silly on so many levels begin with.(why would stop at an exact length and not burn up the wielder if it were so hot, are basically miracles of science in itself.) I mean every time they d hit something energy would be expended, so it eventually fizzle out. Then again just beckons question why not everything else runs on simliar tech if they managed make the lighsabers perptual. I guess they do run on plot devicism.
To put things simply, anyone who rejects the EU clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.
No its clearly a different line in the sand. You can tell me or anyone else (as plenty of people say same thnig as me when people start quoting the EU crap fest as canon.) its a bunch of lame ass fan fics period. My roommate was a huge star wars fan and talked about the books all time, Id just shrug and so whens vader going cause super novas in the movies...yeah thats freaking lame.
I see nothing wrogn with people writing their own takes on it. Peter jackson did his own take on lord of the rings, but he made clear its own entity.
So just because it's not the movies, that means it sucks? Okay, you really had me going there for a second. But you really can't be serious about this if you're going to judge a vast number of works as if they're all the exact same.
I could care less read them all, my point still stands. If they had any decency they just say they were a microcontinuity and be done with it. If superman and spiderman can have several different microcontinuities, why do these guys have try shoe horn their crap into the original canon that they dont fit into.
Also, look at 1977, do you really think they had the technology to make the Jedi/Sith do all the crazy things as spoken for in the canon? No.
Thats a copout, and ultimately proves my point heh. They had the chance amp up the series in prequels and still left them operating at basically same power lvls.
In episode 3, you do know that they're using the Force to keep from bursting into flames RIGHT? Or have you not read any of the books? Now, I would love to see somebody without force powers or the suit of armor that the mustafarians were wearing to STAY ALIVE fight on those little robots.
So what if the novelazation said that. The novel of episode 2 had Anakin flying around and dropping a huge rock on the sand people. The Novel of the transformers 2007 had jazz melt down Brawl singlehandedly. What bearing does this have to the movie where no mention of force related means was applied to their survive. (which clearly didnt help later as Anakin was burnt to a crisp.)
Just because YOU haven't read it, doesn't make it not true and frankly if your going to aruge with no knowledge, then you argument is mute.
Invalidating the person does not invalidate their point. I dont care if I never read a book in my life or read em all. My point still stands, they contradict the movies the highest canon and have a Tag EU on them. You can not dispute this. If it was simply the star wars universe then they wouldnt have made such a distiction. Then what you re saying would hold water. Again if my arguement is mute why heck am I being replied to...cause I'm right. All too easy.
On top of all this nonsense about how the EU doesn't suck, you guys have yet mention any feat worth a crap that actually suggests lightsabers can hack thru adamantium which was the original point in question not whether we should give a slag about the EU.
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:30 am