2 hours ago, Tramp Graphics said:Dave Filoni is more than just the "animation guy", given that he is also one of the executive producers and is directing at least one, possibly more, episodes of The Mandalorian .
But he isn't a canon character, nor does he have creative control over the franchise as a whole. George Lucas did have that control, but as he doesn't anymote, anything he has said that hasn't made it into media is also not canon.
2 hours ago, Tramp Graphics said:Secondly , yes, Pablo Hidalgo has gone on record stating that Jango has claims to Concord Dawn as his homeworld, and he too is one of the "big wigs" at Lucasfil m . The key point here, is that within the ficti on , we have two contradictory in character statem e nt s . Jango, who claims to be from Concord Daw n (a mandalorian colony), and Olmec, denying Ja ng o is Mandalorian, for purely political reasons, not wanting to be associated with a notorious bount y hunter and assassin. As such, the veracity of his in character statement is colored by his pol itical ambitions. And out of universe we have Filoni saying Jango isn't Mandalorian (at least not by bloo d), and Hidalgo confirming in universe claims by Jango that he is from Concord Dawn, a Mandalorian world, of which there is no reason why Jango would lie about that as he has nothing to gain by lying nor lose by telling the truth since Concord Dawn is a "back woods" colony, not the Mandal o rian homeworld. And it is a long established pa r t of his history since he was first introduced. These are contradictions regarding Jango's status, that, combined with the differing ways someone can be considered Mandalorian or not, leave open this question to certain points of view .
By contrast, Filoni's statement regarding Ahsoka's lightsaber crystals have no such contradictions. The book establishes how Sith get their red bladed lightsabers (through "bleeding" the crystals to corrupt them), and Ahsoka purifies two of them and attunes them to hers elf, c hanging them from red to clear, and thus creating w hite blades. Filoni then confirms that this parti c ular color occurred because of Ahsoka not being a Jedi. This is everything we have on thi s. T here's no "subjective" or contradictory information or opinions, of "true from a certain point of view" as is the cas e with Jango. It's an objective fa ct regarding wh y Ahsoka's lightsabers have blades that particular co lor .
In one case you accept that the vague and/or contradictory on-screen statements means that the behind-the-scenes comments can't be taken as canonical truth, and in the other case you're arguing for the complete opposite.
It's at best unclear whether Filoni is talking about in-universe or design choices when mentioning her lightsabers; seconds earlier he was discussing her armor design, mentioning that he wanted it to look like something she found in an old temple, which does not mean that, canonically, she found her armor in an old temple despite us having no other information on it.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter, because behind the scenes commentary is not canon, even if it's correct, because canon needs to be established, and the only media that even raises the point makes it just as likely to be related to the cleansing process itself as some intrinsic quality of Ahsoka. So, canonically, it's inconclusive until directly adressed. Just like Jango.
2 hours ago, Tramp Graphics said:However , there is a practical reason why I bold certain words or passages.
Practical to whom?
