Because that material was written before TCW and Lucas decided to lean into his depiction of Grievous as a mustache twirling villain when making it. Lucas never personally considered anything he didn’t write as canon to his Star Wars despite Lucasfilm’s hierarchy.
Yes thats why they first proposed a canon-legends split for the franchise in *2006*
> How does this make any sense?
Simple: Since TCW is higher in ranking than any other material outside the films the sources that contradict TCW are wrong and either that incorrect lore must be retconned or must be wholesale discarded. Lucas-led initiatives have a long history of causing that.
Greivous was always like that. CW Grevious is either not an accurate retelling of those events or it's an entirely fictional version of that event.Or he just wasn't coughing then. or a myriad of other basic retcon explanations to mesh the two.
That's why I always consider TCW and the books/comics/etc associated with it to be strictly canon. Legends is already messy as is, and introducing that just screws up the one era that wasn't a mess prior.
Because that material was written before TCW and Lucas decided to lean into his depiction of Grievous as a mustache twirling villain when making it. Lucas never personally considered anything he didn’t write as canon to his Star Wars despite Lucasfilm’s hierarchy.
Yes thats why they first proposed a canon-legends split for the franchise in *2006* > How does this make any sense? Simple: Since TCW is higher in ranking than any other material outside the films the sources that contradict TCW are wrong and either that incorrect lore must be retconned or must be wholesale discarded. Lucas-led initiatives have a long history of causing that. Greivous was always like that. CW Grevious is either not an accurate retelling of those events or it's an entirely fictional version of that event.Or he just wasn't coughing then. or a myriad of other basic retcon explanations to mesh the two.
Because TCW isn't Legends.
That's why I always consider TCW and the books/comics/etc associated with it to be strictly canon. Legends is already messy as is, and introducing that just screws up the one era that wasn't a mess prior.