timdiggerm said:
Of course, the last time I saw a work of fiction purposely not answer every question and leave things mysterious, all the LOST fans complained.
All? Prior to the beginning of season six I was a huge Lost fan and felt too many answers we didn't need is what really ruined the show.
Anyway, Lost's style of mysteries aren't even comparable to something like the clone wars being talked about but not explained in ANH. Lost's mistake was making mystery upon mystery upon mystery to the point that they overwhelmed themselves and couldn't retcon reasonable explanations to the mysteries; leaving dangling plot holes in a story isn't the same as over explaining every little detail (which, interestingly enough, was also a problem Lost suffered from, no one really wanted an entire 45 min episode dedicated to explaining how Jack got his tattoo).
The Star Wars trilogy existed with its limited explanations of the clone wars and only a vague history of Darth Vader's past for over 20 years before films were made to answer these things. I think everyone would have been just fine if they never knew exactly how C-3PO was made or the life story of Boba Fett.
Sometimes it is really fun to let your imagination fill in the holes, I spent many hours as a kid imagining what the clone wars were like, or imagining using my action figures to act out the events leading up to the fall of Anakin Skywalker.