Anchorhead said:
What I can't grasp is why some fans don't accept that vast amount of material as legitimate. The entire entity is fiction. Why is there a need for some fans to have some parts of it be seen as more official than others?
I think fear that the supplementary material (for want of a better term) will affect how the "official" material is perceived and/or influence the development of "official" works in the future colours their perception.