SW is tainted today. If you say you're a SW fan, okay.....but if you say it to another SW fan, then it almost immediately becomes a PT or SE debate. Remember a time when we could just marvel at how AWESOME the whole thing was. Can't do that anymore. It's become so pathetic.
SW used to bring me so much joy it wasn't funny. No, it wasn't the only thing in my life, but it was something to escape into for a while and lose yourself in. Now you watch it and it's either the stupid crap in the SE that reminds you of the bad PT or you watch the crappy versions of the OOT. If you watch the PT, then you have to contend with all the nonsense that is in there. I wish Lucas had NEVER made anything now...no SEs, no PT, nothing. He's taken a perfectly good idea and fucking ruined it. I wonder if he did it all on purpose too, but that's a thread for another time.
This is a sad state of affairs, isn't it? Who would have thought it would come to this? 10 years ago, if you told me that SW would end up like this, I would have called you nuts. Sometimes I look at it all and I can't fucking believe my eyes and ears....SW is just not good anymore. This is why I'm doing my own preservation using some of the existing preservations out there. I'm gonna do nice retro artwork and there won't be a mention of the SEs or PT on them. I'll put them up on my shelf and forget this whole fucking sordid affair. I will permanently check out of SW fandom forever. I'm through.