'Star Wars': Now the Spinoffs Will Matter (Some of Them, Anyway)

The "Star Wars" canon is going to be expanded in the future -- by allowing more than just the movies to count. Throughout its 30-plus-year existence, the concept of Star Wars canon has been relatively simple: Everything that happens in the movies counts, and everything that happened in any of the spinoff material -- be it games, comic books, novels or television shows -- doesn't. The simple rule has served moviemakers well, but might leave fans thinking that the ancillary material isn't worth t...