053 - Extended Canon - New Stories in Old Universes

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 7 a.m.

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?\nShow Notes:\nWhy is is that extended canon books never quite live up to the original books you fell in love with?\nDo you automatically read extended canon even if you know it might disappoint you? Yes\u2026 Yes we do.\nThe 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.\nWhat do you call a book series of 4 books - Quartet? Quadriology?\nDid y\u2019all know there was a novella in the Twilight series?\nJette 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!\nWe LOVE our proper architectural blueprints and laid out timelines\nCheck out our episode on The Rules of Magic.\nComic books and superhero stories and grown into almost all extended canon at this point. We talked about this in our Graphic Novels episode too.\nJette was right - the Batman films we grew up on were considered a series - Batman Forever is listed as a \u201cstand-alone sequel\u201d to Batman Returns (an obvious sequel to Tim Burton\u2019s Batman). Batman & Robin is considered the 4th film in the Warner Brothers series, despite different Batmans and directors throughout.\nLooking back, our episode on The Shale Project is about extended canon too.\nAll of the technology and firetruck noises in this episode - sorry!\nGen doesn\u2019t have self control when it comes to Maggie Stiefvater\nStar Wars has become the definition of extended canon. Films and novelizations and animated series Oh My!\nAuthors Mentioned (too many books to list!):\nStephenie Meyers (Twilight universe)\nSuzanne Collins (Hunger Games universe)\nPhillip Pullman (His Dark Materials universe\nMaggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle and more)\nStephen King (All of the books)\nDavid Mitchell (Cloud Atlas etc)\nAlice Hoffman (Practical Magic series)\nLeigh Bardugo (The Grishaverse and more)\nVE Schwab (Shades of Magic and more)\nRansom Riggs (Miss Peregrine series)\nAdaptations:\nBBC His Dark Materials\nThe prequel films to the series that we no longer speak of\nCastle Rock\nAll 3 Spider-man trilogies - Sorry Tobey and Andrew - Tom for the win\nAll 3 Batman series\u2019 (3rd one coming soon)\nDon\u2019t forget to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We\u2019d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!