Seriously though, most of the problem comes just from visiting super-huge fanboy sites in the first place. You're not ever going to find really good discussion at places like the StarWars.com boards, or TheForce.Net's boards. It's a magnet for people who just feel like screaming into the void. Or, on the other side of the spectrum it's a place for people who think that because there's such a huge memberbase, they can piggyback onto the Star Wars name and funnel all THEIR mediocre creative talents into messageboard posts instead of trying to cultivate them on their own.
All reading that stuff is going to do is either a) depress you b) frustrate you c) anger you.
but yeah, R2, you're right, a lot of these weird theories come from people reading EU and not even stopping to consider that the EU is basically marketing, and has jack to do with the movies outside of keeping the brand on shelves. Not to say the content isn't good sometimes. But they forget that George Lucas doesn't write the books, and they assume that if he let them get published, then he must have either read them, or helped write them. Which is very erroneous, but once again--most fanboys don't really WANT to know what they're talking about. They have more fun trading ignorant statements
