See, I never read the books, so there's nothing to be torn down. It's like MCU. MCU doesn't follow comic canon, so the comics don't matter. It's a seperate thing. Same with the Star Wars movies. The tie in novels and comics etc don't matter, the movies are their own continuity, and the novels are the theories of ways things might go that held people over until canon came back. Really, the novels are the fanfiction. Not part of continuity unless acknowledged by the films.