Anchorhead said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

... the relationship between Vader and the Emperor was much more scary when we DIDN'T know all the crappy PT backstory. We see how horrible Vader is, and everyone concerned says he's nothing compared to the Emperor, who spends most of his time shrouded in a hood. But in the PT, Vader is a whiny young brat and the Emperor is essentially a power-hungry crazy guy they goes all Gollum in the process. Sometimes less is more.

Bingo. Lucas answered questions people weren't asking.

That's not entirely true, I was 12 when Episode 1 came out and for the years leading up to the release, I would constantly ask my brother when 1, 2, and 3 were coming out. When I got the 1995 faces VHS's for Christmas (as I recall) I hung onto every word Lucas said in the interviews at the beginning. At that time, I definitely wanted more.

So while it is true that I was disappointed with the end result (although not as much as some), I was still asking for them and I'm sure I wasn't alone. If people didn't want more, the EU novels wouldn't have sold so well during these same years.