What are you talking about? You accused me of being narrow-minded well before I ever accused you of such. All you want to say right now is that Lucas created a mess and the EU needs to excuse it. I've said I actually agree on some instances. But you're not taking into account that Star Wars has always had parts of the story that had to go unexplained for the sake of telling a larger story. At least the EU picks up the slack a lot of the time, and sometimes even gives adequate reasons (which you like to term in a derogatory fashion "excuses") that are thought out. It's not as simple as to say "EU excuses" for Lucas' mess and leave it at that. It's going into extreme territory to do so.