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- "Since Star Wars has become my job, it's been impossible for me to watch the films in the same way again. I'm too busy looking for which background character hasn't been named or trying to figure out how many days it took to fly from Dagobah to Bespin. However, while the actual experience of watching the films has changed for me, my love for Star Wars has not."
- ―Leland Chee in an interview with Wizards.com
Leland Chee (born March 1, 1971) is a Lucasfilm official and the person who maintains the Holocron continuity database. He was a frequent presence on the former StarWars.com forums, where he went by the screennames "Tasty Taste" and "Leland Y Chee." He was also the main tester for the Episode I video game, and maintains the Indycron continuity database (the equivalent database for the Indiana Jones universe).
After The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm, Chee was assigned a job within the newly formed Lucasfilm Story Group, whose main purpose was to eliminate the Star Wars franchise's canon hierarchy and create one cohesive canon.
Discrepancies explained by Chee
- In the Dark Empire series, Palpatine tells Luke Skywalker that the Battle of Endor was not his first death, and that he had started transferring his spirit into clone bodies years prior to that, when his original body had degenerated as a result of heavy use of the dark side. However, Chee stated that Palpatine was lying to Luke about having died previously, and that Palpatine's demise at Endor was definitely the first time he died, although not the last. Chee also stated that, while Palpatine's clone bodies do degenerate as a result of the strong presence of dark side energy within them, his original body did not degenerate in the same way, and he only had to start switching bodies periodically as a result of having to use clone bodies following the destruction of his original body at Endor.[2]
- Chee answered a long debated question about the number of toes on the feet of Yoda's species. Where some sources depicted three, and some ambiguously five, his official response in the "Ask Lobot" section of Star Wars Insider 122 was four; three in the front and one in the back.[3]
Continuity confirmed by Chee
Leland Chee playing Chay Lelando for the Star Wars: Millennium Falcon: A 3-D Owner's Guide book trailer
As George Lucas is considered the highest level of continuity (G-canon) in Star Wars fandom, any mention by Lucas of a name, character, place, or thing not previously known as canonical seems to eventually gain that status. This is partly due to the item being added to the Holocron database, if it has not been used in literature or other media beforehand.
After Lucas' interview with Jon Stewart at Celebration V, in which Lucas mentioned that Stewjon and Skywalker wine existed, the two were soon after added to the Holocron, as Chee confirmed on his Twitter account.[4]
Bibliography
"The Go-To Guy" on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)- "Keeper of the Holocron's Blog" — Leland Y Chee — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (backup link)
- Star Wars: Luke Skywalker, Last Hope for the Galaxy
- SWCVI: The Holocron Keeper at Celebration on StarWars.com (backup link)
- SWCVI: The Holocron 101 Panel Recap on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "The Making of A New Dawn" — Star Wars Insider 152
- "Classic Moment: Warriors Clash!" — Star Wars Insider 155
- Inside one of the COOLEST JOBS at Lucasfilm & Mark Hamill will speak at Celebration Orlando! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leland Chee, published by LinkedIn on www.linkedin.com (archived from the original on May 11, 2020)
- ↑ Leland Chee (Tasty Taste) on the DarkHorse.com Message Boards on www.darkhorse.com (May 26, 2005): "None of the versions of Palpatine that you see in the films is a clone. The original Palpatine had a normal lifespan. He went through the clone transfer process between Eps VI and DE. (I concede that some "retconning" might need to be considered with the exact wording of the DE text.)" (archived from the original on October 30, 2007)
- ↑ Star Wars Insider 122
- ↑
Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper) on Twitter: "Why not, I just added planet Denile/Denial (sp?) and Skywalker wine as an in universe beverage into the Holocron." (backup link)
External links
- Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper) on Twitter
- Keeper of the Holocron on Facebook
- Leland Chee at the Internet Movie Database
- Leland Chee on Mobygames.com
