Otaku: Since the whole I.P. really was created by Lucas in the first place, shouldn't the official storyline be HIS call over anyone else's? This isn't to say I like Lucas that much or think he's a genius, but really his story SHOULD be the official one if he created the whole universe in the first place.

I was actually arguing with the person who said, "Lucas gave the okay to all the EU books," telling him that if Lucas had actually done so, he probably would have read those books, and in which case he should have already know what was already on the shelves about his characters. Or he would have told the writers, "No, I have something else in store for this character, so change that part." Point is, I was just trying to point out that Lucas didn't really confirm the books, and that he just gets a cut of profits.

Ahhhh, well that person was me. :P Giving the 'okay' to the books doesn't mean reading them or confirming they're accurate, of course. While this is what the man would do in a perfect world (and if he were a better man), I think most of us knew this was not what he actually does.

Lucas that fool! *pulls out a nuclear powered rocket launcher and fire it at his house blowing it up* *George Lucas pulls up to his house in his car* what the hell?
me: DAMNIT ALL ><

Actually, over on the Star Wars Forums, I saw a bunch of people disputing whether IG-88 should be in the movies or not, and then they got into a dispute about IG-88, then IG-88 in the EU, then the EU...yeah, they went really off-topic. Then some Lucas Inc. official stated, "George Lucas does not read the novels before publication. He is a busy man. He has agents such as myself to read these books, supervise the games, etc. The guidelines for writing a Star Wars novel are simple: You can write about anyone and anything you want except for history of Yoda or Obi-Wan Kenobi." or something like that. Shut a lot of people up in doing so, but the thread never got back on-topic.

This thread is still on-topic, right?