Via iO9.com:

Yes, Admiral. Disney’s new “everything counts” Star Wars universe is a trap, one that they are going to get caught in it sooner or later.

Oh, it seems like a good idea — assemble a team to make sure everything works together, and make all the ancillary products like Star Wars Rebels and the books and the upcoming games part of the canon, so Star Wars fans feel like they can’t miss them, or they’ll be missing something integral, something that may factor into a later movie or some such. At the very least it’s a bold way to set the Disney Star Wars regime apart from the old one.

But George Lucas knew what he was doing when he drew a line between the movies and all the other Star Wars shit he was releasing. It has two benefits, the first of which is that it prevented him from being limited by the Expanded Universe when it came time to make the prequels. George always knew he might want to make more movies, and he didn’t want to be beholden to some mediocre Star Wars novel or some comic or RPG sourcebook. By separating it into the Expanded Universe, he could ignore anything he wanted, while still accepting as canon anything he liked. This gave him freedom and flexibility.

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