But what happens if you clone someone who doesn't already have a "u" in their name? Is a clone of Han Solo called "Hauun Solo"?

Exactly my point. I never said the Thrawn trilogy was bad, I just noted that it is a chronological stumbling block that would need removal from canon. Some things ought to be excised because they are objectively terrible, while others will be excised to free up space for the film-makers to tell their own stories. The…

That's the vibe I was getting, too.

But you don't want Birdemic as part of your canon.

When I say that it starts to muddy the water, sequel-wise, I specifically mean that it ties up a fair amount of chronological space that would be used for backstory they might rather have instead. I just don't think that's a position they want to find themselves in.

[p class="YakovSmirnov"]In Soviet Russia, Olympics are excited about YOU![/p]

OH MOST DEFINITELY.

Keep many of the characters, and maybe even some of the general outlines of events, but discard the actual books themselves. Treat them like flawed historical accounts.

I have a feeling that Leland Chee has been pushing for this for a while now. Frankly, this is good news for the EU, as we no longer have to deal with stinkers that have no right to be part of the Canon (Glove of Darth Vader, I am looking at you) on the same level as legitimately awesome things like KotOR. Things I…

Leland Chee has been doing this job for years. The fact that he now has the ability to actually write stuff off just made his job a LOT easier. Before, he had to find a way to squeeze the old Marvel Comics, the Glove of Darth Vader series, and the Crystal Star, for instance, all into a coherent timeline that fit with…

This led to one of my happier lost bets. Living in Seattle, when the 'Hawks do well, it's hard to ignore them. In 2010, they had really just backed into the playoffs with a losing record simply by virtue of being in a shitty division. With the Saints on a roll that year, one of my co-workers and I figured that there…

PR flacks are by design bullshitters, though, in the Frankfurtian sense, in that they do not care whether the things they say describe reality correctly. The DC guy really only cares that Spencer thinks DC is better than Marvel, and won't let a little thing like facts stand in the way.

I wouldn't necessarily call them liars. That implies that they acknowledge something as true. These guys are bullshitters, which are even worse. DC doesn't care if their assertion is true or false, so long as people perceive them favorably.

Maybe as some sort of Wagnerian opera, especially once the Elves and Dwarves come into being.

I'm not saying you don't go on your adventure, so much as you don't worry about fulfilling specific details, since those will just happen one way or the other.

The lesson to all of this is pretty much that if someone comes to you and says something like "you are the prophesied one..." the correct response is to cover your ears and scream "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU GO AWAY!" until they give up and go away, then go on about your life, since it usually seems like the prophecy…

That is pretty much the absolute best analogy for a time-sink hobby I have ever heard. I am going to have to start using "volcano god" more often. Consider my hat tipped to you, sir.

In heirarchy of nerdom, I think below the CCG guys are the pen-and-paper RPG types, who typically wish that the CCG stuff weren't so easy to understand, and below them, the LARPers, who everyone just kind of feels awkward around. As a dyed-in-the-wool pen-and-paper type, I've seen the face of the grognard, and it is…

Yeah, the Tolkien estate has been rather put out regarding the way the LOTR and Hobbit films have essentially been turned into marketing machines for all manner of crap, so I think it would take an act of Illuvatar himself to get them to officially license something like this. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be awesome,…

Well, my work is done here.