Vaderisnothayden said:
Well, in effect Lucas tried to kick the orignals out of the canon by making the SEs to replace them and, seeing as the originals are the definition of Star Wars canon (by being the real Star Wars -canon is ultimately about what's the real thing), that basically had the effect of kicking the SEs and all Lucas's later work out of the canon.

Even then I still had hopes of Episode 3 turning it around, and I sort of enjoyed that at first (mainly because of Ian McDiarmid) before getting tired of it.

I never had much hopes for ROTS. After seeing AOTC I knew ROTS was going to be absolute shite and that Lucas had lost the ability to do good star wars. But ROTS suprised me, because it was significantly worse than even I expected. It was so uninvolving that I had trouble staying awake during it.

It's very clear for me that Lucasfilm entered a downfall path since producer Rick McCallum entered in the company.