TMBTM said:

Yep, but how good or bad the EU is have nothing to do with the fact that Lucas was always clear that he can trash any of those stories if he wants to go elsewhere. As good as I think the TZ's trilogy is, Lucas have the right to make a new sequel trilogy telling something completely different. And I would not mind, since it was in "the deal" from the begining.

On the other hand, plenty of EU stories already contradict themselves. It would be pretty much impossible to develop a story inbetween two timeline events if you bothered to check every reference on every single piece of EU media. And since most of 'em are crap you might aswell ignore it altogether.

And I for one hold Timothy Zahn responsible for preliminary ruining the SW prequels. It was he who introduced clones and all that crap. The man can write a good plot, but he filled it with too much nonsense and pseudo force-science.