The Star Wars Canon Explodes. Again.

Film Yes, alright James, it's "canonical". But I couldn't think of another post title. A couple of days ago, someone tweeted Del Ray Books, the US publishers of the Star Wars novels to check:

@kyle_newman @HolocronKeeper The novelizations of the seven films--including The Clone Wars--are canon.
— StarWarsBooks (@DelReyStarWars) April 30, 2014

Which is fine. Makes sense. Except until, as theforce.net and its commenters notice there's stuff in those novels like Owen Lars and Obi-Wan being brothers which are flat out contradicted internally within the books, plus there's a bunch of stuff which refers to the EU which has just been tossed into the Sarlacc Pit. The beleaguered social media attendant, when faced with this logic banthadepositstorm ended up issuing this clarification:

To clarify, movie novelizations are canon where they align with what is seen on screen in the 6 films and the Clone Wars animated movie.
— StarWarsBooks (@DelReyStarWars) April 30, 2014

In other words, no, no the novelisations aren't canonical unless you draw a line through anything which isn't actually in the films. Um.

To be fair to @DelRayStarWars, they're not entirely incognizant of the irony inherent in their job. Example:

@swarm87 @theforcenet We'd prefer instead to say that Chewbacca is officially alive. We at Del Rey like to skew positive.
— StarWarsBooks (@DelReyStarWars) April 30, 2014

Bless.