sexyloser said:
I'm sorry I couldn't reply sooner. But I just want to thank anybody that replied and to this site that allows Star War fans to vent their frustrations. To those saying that Homer or Shakespeare isn't a comparable example. Well maybe The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. My point is that I feel that Star Wars is an iconic piece of art that could potentially survive the far test of time.
It's sad that the stories I imagine in my mind is better, or at least more consistent, than whats shown on the big screen. The only way I can reconcile what I feel Star Wars should be and what it is, is to literally block out what I dislike out of my head and rewrite the blank spaces.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanonDiscontinuity
As probably a huge number of Star Wars fans had to do as evidenced by the large number of "Rewrite the Prequels" threads on other Star Wars forums.
Well, Mendelssohn contributed a huge chunk of lot to J.S.Bach surviving the "far" test of time (after having been virtually forgotten and discarded as "old-fashioned" with the onset of (pre-)classicism), by basically single-handedly reviving his works on the concert stage.
Bach hadn't "ruined" or tainted his reputation by writing something shitty, and yet apparently he was in danger of staying obscure for a long, long time without active hands seeking to prevent that - my point being, if you want the OT to stand the "test of time" in spite of the prequels, you can work for that ;)
Which I think this site is all about :D