So my intense fandom is really centered around the films, not the universe it created. I rebel against EU-like things where people try to come up with more explanation of things. I consider Star Wars more space fantasy and less science fiction. As soon as people start treating it like science fiction I get uncomfortable.
Example: The Millennium Falcon is Han’s ship. I’m good with that. But as soon as you start saying it’s a YT-model whatever Corellian blah blah, I’m done with you.
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I too get really annoyed when people try to explain the science behind things in SW. I personally never had issues with the ships having serial numbers, that makes sense to me (also isn’t YT freighter actually mentioned at some point in the films?). What really bugs me is when someone tries to explain scientifically how Han made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs by adding some convoluted story of how he flew close to a black hole, and things like that.
I appreciate world-building, but not when it gets so picky and excessively detailed that they forget that SW is mostly fantasy.