Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic

Maybe it isn't so much "how dare Lucas contradict what I had assumed" but more of, "I really prefer the way I was looking at it before".

I always have reasons, from the actual films, that lead me to prefer what I prefer in Star Wars. It's never a thing where I simply reject a change because I wanted something else alone. George's additions or changes seem to war with what was previously implied in the sense where the concepts are stretched too far, become too coicidental, or just seem totally out of character.

Perfect example: I was looking through the Star Wars visual guide yesterday and I was horrified to discover a box depicting Darth Vader holding C-3PO's head. The caption below the image claimed that Chewie was given the pieces of C-3PO by Darth Vader in ESB!

First, we're supposed to imagine that Darth Vader would actually give a shit about some random box of blasted, protocol-droid pieces (sitting in Princess Leia's room) long enough to discover that it was the very same robot he built as a boy. Then, out of his disgust for his previous life and what he's now become, he orders his clone troopers to destroy the parts. But, as Darth Vader walks away, he feels a tear jerking at his eyes. He stops and, with a lump in his throat, looks back towards the box. Feelings of remorse and loss surge through him causing him to become fond of the droid once more. He immediately rescinds his previous order and tells the clone troopers to deliver the parts to the wookie's torture cell.

George Lucas consider's that canon?!

Darth Vader would never be that pathetic. The kind of character he was portrayed as, in the films, would have never made any of those dramatic steps, much less all of them. It was better to assume that Lando had delivered the parts to Chewbaca's cell since that would at least make sense (Lando's character would have done that).