Okay I'm glad others share my opinion. It's just the sheer amount of information given by the EU just obliterated the the epicness of the original trilogy. You want to think that that section in history in the Star Wars universe was the pinnacle of history or the climax of their time. But now knowing that so much happened before it all. Even the character back-stories takes away from the experience. And all of the holes that the prequel trilogy created just made it worse even though they were supposed to be part of the natural flow of the story.