This is how old I am: I will NEVER call the first Star Wars film "A New Hope," get your bullshit retcon away from me, it is and always shall be Star Wars, forever and ever amen

[vanessak@mastodon.scot]

@scalzi This is the truth. I didn't even watch the sequels because I was sure they couldn't match the original, one-and-only Star Wars.

[scalzi@mastodon.social]

@kayeluvian YES KAY THANK YOU

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@scalzi

I have, on my bookshelf, a copy of the novelisation of the first film, published in 1977 and written by George Lucas. As a child, the second and third were repeated on TV a lot but I never saw the first one, so I grabbed the book when I saw it.

I was confused by a lot of the uproar around the restored scenes in the remastered ones, because things like the scene with Jabba were in the novelisation.

The title of the book is:

Star Wars: From the adventures of Luke Skywalker.

[sortova@redwombat.social]

@scalzi speaking of retcon, how long does it take to do the Kessel Run?

[vmachiel@mastodon.nl]

@scalzi my brother born in 02 does the same‍️

[nerpulus@mastodon.online]

@scalzi Same. And the red-suited superhero is named Captain Marvel, and Pluto is a planet, and you type two spaces after the period.

[kithrup@wandering.shop]

@scalzi I was so very confused when I saw it an Nth time at the theatre and it had changed the scroll.

It was GASLIGHTING.

[pirateguillermo@sfba.social]

@scalzi My kids honed their eye rolling skills on their parents’ insistence that, “watching the Star Wars movies in order,” means that we start with “Star Wars”.

[cratermoon@zirk.us]

@scalzi I also will never consider "The Phantom Menace" canon. Delete the entire film from the timeline and nothing of value is lost.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@scalzi "The Great Schism Has Begun!"

But not really because you're right.