Bullshit. Have you read his site? He is definitely not a canon purist. He's an original trilogy (really just ESB and ANH) purist.
I have, and oddly enough I didn't get that impression!
He thinks he understands SW better than GL and LFL and because the universe didn't pan out exactly the way he thought it would from the first two movies, GL must be a money-grubbing loon falling off his rocker.
I didn't get that from his site. Maybe you're referring to personal knowledge of him or something that occured on the forum? In the articles by him that I recall, he tried to concoct theories about how everything worked based on the canon sources, whilst considering EU stuff, he generally dismissed it by pointing out brainbugs. What's wrong with that?
GL himself, though he profits from the EU directly, has run roughshod over their continuity, despite the cries of some of his fans. Why should not other of his fans folllow his example? Or is the only "right" opinion that which says everything with the Star Wars name on it is of equal value?
Plenty of people tell me ROTJ sucks ass, I can respect their reasons for not liking it, yet its my favorite SW movie! I just disagree that's all. I don't say it's not canon, or GL should be fired for it. And I hated Jar Jar, but I enjoyed TPM. I enjoy some of the EU as well.
No offense, but the idea that this fan knows SW better than GL and is qualified to make judgements and pass insults based on his own assumptions from each film (as shown by his whining about BS he jumped to conclusion about from TPM) is something I find offensive.
Many fans make this very claim, that they DO in fact know Star Wars more than GL himself (considering they would have avoided some of the mistakes he made with continuity in the prequels, etc).
Now obviously, GL created the franchise, so its his IP, and he has the money and experience to create it. He has the power to control it through his lawyers and company execs, so it hardly matters what a few fans think. Whether you agree or not, they do have a point!
As many of speculated here, GL seems to be making it up as he goes along, changing his mind often (as is his perogative) but he often pretends in public that he meant it this way all along, with flimsy excuses which many frankly don't buy.
He had an idea of what SW should have been, and GL had his own vision.
Obviously, and he's not alone. But that doesn't invalidate his site, and the excellent material it contains.
You tell me which is really SW. And personally, WEG, Bantam, and the post-Bantam EU cause me many headaches--don't generalize me with Official fanboyz like those on TF.net.
It's the stories of George Lucas. It's also everything with the liscensed name on it. Are we going to have a canon debate again? Because that's been done to death. Brown's point seemed to be that the "spinoff" material was almost always inferior to the original sources and full of brain bugs. Plenty of fans agree. There is no reason why they cannot have this opinion..
Brown shrieked that GL was a poor writer compared to Tolkein simply because he didn't elaborate exactly on the nature and backstory of the Trade Federation.
I wasn't privy to that conversation, is that also in the forums?
GL could have avoided the "contradictions" between the EU and the prequels (and the fan displeasure it has caused) had he done so, but he didn't, so in a sense, yes, it is his own fault.
Nobody has to take it as hard as some have, of course.
Before waxing on how great Brown's canon purism is, you should actually read some of his shit--including stuff posted above in the very same thread.
I found his site informative and fun. I say the same thing about Mike's SWvST site. I don't judge his site by the posts on his forum either. Or were you looking at a different site than I was?
