Vaderisnothayden said:
That's the OT. The OT has a right to be revisionist.

Why is that exactly? In fact, I find both those things I mentioned as very irritating retcons. If George could retcon the snot out of his movies back then, why isn't he allowed to do it now?

First off, I am sorry to hear someone force fed you SOTE, that must have sucked. Personally, I read it of my own free will, which I am sure contributed to my enjoyment of it.

I didn't. I read it because I felt I HAD to because it was being pushed as THE story of what went on between the films.

At the end of the day, it is still just EU. Not sure why you felt obligated to do so. All the other EU books are being pushed as THE story after the trilogy, before the sags, and all the spaces inbetween. Do you read each one of those? The Force Unleashed is THE story between the trilogies, doesn't mean you HAVE to read the tripe.

Being a fan of something is suppose to be because you enjoy it. I cannot imagine turning what is suppose to be pleasure into a chore, and somehow feeling obligated to throw my money at something I don't want, and to waste my precious time reading something I don't like.

Sometimes you come off sounding like you are a victim of Lucas and his evil greedy plots, I don't mean to sound like a Lucas apologist by any means, but you must realize, you are only a victim of yourself. For example, I didn't like Indiana Jones ATKOFTS. When it was released, I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it, so I never spent the money to buy a ticket, I ended up watching it much later for free, and I still wish I hadn't seen it at all. It is awful, George really screwed it up, but he didn't force me to see it, even though he was pushing it as THE story that came after The Last Crusade. Had I went and spent the money to see it, even though I had heard enough about it to already know it was the shit it was, I could be the only one to blame for it.