Given all the hype and praise TFA is getting, let us step back and look for something else that isn’t overhyped or overrated. I give you: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command; otherwise known as the Thrawn Trilogy. A fine set for anybody who really wanted to know what actually happens with Luke, Han, and Leia; a carefully constructed plot and villain, new characters who are truly alive and breathing, and an excellent continuation of our three heroes.

Other recommended books are the Hand of Thrawn Duology, consisting of Specter of the Past, and Vision of the Future where it talks about how vulnerable republics can be, as well as the end of the Galactic Civil War; the Bounty Hunter Wars, with the books The Mandalorian Armor, Slave Ship, and Hard Merchandise, which tell stories about the bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back, how they got to come together, and where they went after Return of the Jedi; the Tales of the Jedi which tell the legends of the Jedi 4,000 before A New Hope; the Darth Bane trilogy, Path of Destruction, Rule of Two, and Dynasty of Evil which talks of the destruction and rebirth of the Sith Order in the hands of Darth Bane, and why the Jedi presumed them to be extinct; and Darth Plagueis which tells of Plagueis’ role in training Palpatine, his apprentice’s rise to power, the experiments on the midi-chlorians, and Plagueis’ death at Palpatine’s hands.

There is a user on DeviantART who is apparently vehement that the sequels should neither exist, nor be considered canon. She is ShinyWhiteWaters. I think that her hatred for Cera is partially understood, but unnecessary. Still, even though I have never seen all of the sequels or remember them clearly: I have seen I, V, VII, VIII, X, and IX, but I remember I, VII, and VIII the best. What you think if the songs were absent from the sequels, or replaced with something relevant and meaningful to the plot, like “Strange Things” and “I Will Go Sailing No More” from “Toy Story.” The characters don’t break into song, but the songs convey their emotions and the emotions of the movie. What if the sequels were more in line with the first film? What about that?

Before Disney’s buyout of Lucasfilm and “Star Wars,” Star Wars had a canon tier:
G-canon were the first six films, T-canon were television shows released, C-canon was “continuity canon” consisting of the novels, comic books, and video games, S-canon was “semi-canon” were older stories or stories that had inconsistencies with G or C canon, and N-canon was non-canon, meaning that they had no impact on the overall story.

Overall, what do you think of this user’s rants? Should there be a canon system? If so, what and how should that system be arranged as?