Darth Lucas said:
Umm… Yes? Why else would you? If I’m throwing away 17 minutes of my life, I want to get something out of it beyond “it looked cool”. It’s no different than watching any short film except it’s in the Star Wars universe.
There’s not much plot you can get out of a 17 minute fan film and still have it be entertaining. Now if it were a long one and it had no story I would understand.