C3PX said:

Why does it matter if it is considered canon or not? If you enjoyed it, then it wasn't a waste of time and brain space.

Sometimes I think some of you guys forget that NONE of this stuff EVER happened. It is all made up anyway. What difference does it make if Lucas' lackeys tell you it did or didn't happen? All that matters is what you enjoy it.

I do find the idea that if something is 'real' has some bearing on its quality to be confusing.

I loved the old Marvel comics, and if they are not 'real canon' according to some glorified blogger Lucasfilm hired to manage their websites and lisecning, that doesn't effect me in the slightest. If "Crimson Jack" gets a mention in the next illustrated Star Wars encyclopedia or not doesn't imporve the stories or detract from them.

I liked "Shadows of the Empire" which I am lead to understand is somehow higher on the canon-train than most of the EU, but that has no influence on me liking it or not.

If George Lucas himself came to me and told me that the "BattleMed: Space Medics" novels from the Clone Wars series were real Star Wars, and intrinsic to his saga, I still wouldn't bother to read them.

That the EU is inconsistent, and contains various levels of canon that may or may not be real Star Wars seems inconsequential to me. That most of the EU is extremely boring, derivitive and just plain not fun is the real reason not to like it.