I don't have a problem with Qui Gonn as a new character......but he should not have been written in as Obi's master.....thats just bad writing in that you're ignoring what's already been revealed. Would it be easier to change the throwaway line in the OT? Definitely, yes......but we're not trying to do whats easy.....we're trying to make the new work pay proper homage to the old, pre-existing work as should have been done in the first place. The OT has been around for 25-30 years (depending on the specific episode), and thats a long time for particular things to become ingrained into popular culture and in the minds and imaginations of loyal fans everywhere....so to then come along and make new films that completely ignore what came before it is not only insulting to the fans, it just downright doesn't make any sense. George was always bitter about the OT....hates the fact that EP V is the most popular film of the trilogy (as its the one he had the least to do with), and that shows in his disregard of it when he made the PT and his million and one changes with every new release of the OT when the coffers get a bit empty.