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Likeitisouthere OP t1_jagrmfk wrote

Reply to comment by TheOneTrueZippy8 in [oc] Did I organize Star Wars entire timeline in correct order? Keep in mind technically a viewer can only watch one Film/Show at a time (games excluded) by Likeitisouthere

George Lucas

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TheOneTrueZippy8 t1_jags6ba wrote

I hate to be the one to break it to you but he is/was making it up as he goes along, as is everyone else involved. Any attempt at a timeline is going to be messy, contradictory and with errors because they exist in the stories themselves.

This is the way.

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mjb2012 t1_jahtb75 wrote

Agreed.

When defending his ad-hoc approach to the prequels and tinkering with the original trilogy, Lucas said something about these stories being retellings of the same myth. So I think we can't even read too much into the episode numbers. Each trilogy is a different way of telling the same story, and each episode has some myth-retelling within it, as well. It's supposed to be all mixed up and ambiguous and repetitive, because that's how legends are. Thus, the fact that the events of one trilogy must precede the events of another doesn't mean they are perfectly accurate, in-universe continuations of the same story. The lines between canon and non-canon are intentionally blurred.

The same thing happens in the Zelda video game series.

Looking at it this way is the only thing that keeps me from getting too bent out of shape about things like "...another world-destroying space station that needs to be sabotaged by scrappy rebels? really?"

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