In Episode 53 Gen and Jette dive into the extended canon of some of their favourite series/universes. We crave more from the characters we love but do we really want more of their stories? Why is it that extended canon books never quite live up to the original books we fell in love with? Do we automatically read extended canon even if we know it might disappoint us? Yes… Yes we do.
Show Notes
The series that we no longer speak of by the author we do not speak of has a very bad track record with extended canon. The stage play? Really? Yikes.
What do you call a book series of four books? Quartet? Quadrology?
Did y’all know there was a novella in the Twilight series?
Jette was wrong. Doctor Sleep the NOVEL does follow the original novel. The film adaptation of Doctor Sleep is a blend of the new novel and the Kubrick film. The story of The Shining and Danny Torrance is so much bigger than the collective consciousness of us all!
We LOVE our proper architectural blueprints and laid out timelines. Check out our episode on The Rules of Magic.
Comic books and superhero stories have grown into almost all extended canon at this point. We talked about this in our Graphic Novels episode too.
Jette was right. The Batman films we grew up on were considered a series. Batman Forever is listed as a “stand-alone sequel” to Batman Returns (an obvious sequel to Tim Burton’s Batman). Batman & Robin is considered the 4th film in the Warner Brothers series, despite different Batmans and directors throughout.
Looking back, our episode on The Shale Project is about extended canon too.
All of the technology and firetruck noises in this episode – sorry!
Gen doesn’t have self control when it comes to Maggie Stiefvater.
Star Wars has become the definition of extended canon. Films and novelizations and animated series, oh my!
Authors Mentioned
There were too many books to list!
Stephenie Meyers (Twilight universe)
Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games universe)
Phillip Pullman (His Dark Materials universe)
Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle and more)
Stephen King (All of the books)
David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas etc)
Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic series)
Leigh Bardugo (The Grishaverse and more)
VE Schwab (Shades of Magic and more)
Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine series)
Adaptations Mentioned
BBC His Dark Materials
The prequel films to the series that we no longer speak of
Castle Rock
All 3 Spider-man trilogies (Sorry Tobey and Andrew, Tom for the win)
All 3 Batman series’ (3rd one coming soon)
