This might only be tangentially-related to your question, but I was in a coffee shop the other night meeting up with a friend, when I overheard someone talking Star Wars with one of the baristas. And I almost threw up. Because he was "educating" this person with the official Lucas line: "You know it was originally just one script. And then he decided to cut it in half. But then even that was too long, so he had to cut each half into thirds. Then he realized that the first half was basically all exposition and the second half was where the action was, so he decided to film it first." I mastered the impulse to get up and set him straight because, honestly, I didn't feel like getting into a very nerdy argument. The most I did was mutter, "Bullshit," after every sentence he spoke. After being forced to listen for another minute or two, I realized these weren't even TF.n gushers. They certainly didn't seem to be fans of the prequels at all. But they were still towing the sickening company line, and probably didn't even realize it.

Star Wars as a fandom is weird. It is so full of misinformation, half-truths, and just plain bullshit that it's almost impossible to have anything remotely resembling a unified fanbase. But it's not just the kind of in-universe bickering that most other fanbases have (this movie or this series is better than this movie or this series in the franchise). It's Lucas's bullshit that splits everyone apart.

The people here are an interesting breed. By "official" definition, most of us here aren't even Star Wars fans. So, yeah, of course we're going to band together, in protest if not comeraderie. Why are we here? Because we're the freaks of the fan community, and no one else will have us. ^_~