To me, what I happen to enjoy about Star Wars is my own personal canon, as in I only really get the stuff I like, and ignore the stuff I don't.
At the end of the day we are talking about a fictional universe, so I'm not even all that worried about what "really" happened, because none of it "really" did.
I love the films the most, and have enjoyed much of the video game EU stuff, but it's not like I'm worried about Jedi Knight "fitting in" with the movies.