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That is absolutely true and I have said the exact same thing recently. But I have also been on the side of being pretty upset. Lucasfilm knows there are us story collectors out here and doesn't care. Continuity errors affect our collections and the way we look at the stories. Our collections that we have spent a lot of money on. A company of people we have helped support for 35 years. We, as a community, don't really amount to squat and never have honestly. Star Wars is, and has always been, for the new fans. If SW was for the "die-hards" then we would get those e-books in our hardcovers on the first release. GL would have put out the "original cuts" on the blu-rays. There would have at least been some apologetic attitude for the continuity errors. But GL's attitude is "this is the way it is, like it or not." And even worse, when the PT was released, it didn't seem all the negative voices got to him as much. Now, in our twitter/FB community, where all opinions can be heard, and the negative ones are always the loudest and most cutting, and GL's daughter is involved and a highly vocal member of this new community, and she has his ear, we have a big mess and and this "fun" is going sour. And now more than ever GL is caring less and less. Continuity is what fired this whole thing up to begin with. Everyone wanted to know what happened before and after. We all wanted to know what happened to Luke after Jedi, if he restarted the Order. Everyone wanted to know if Han and Leia got married and had kids. We wanted to know how Anakin's story actually happened. We wanted to see how the Clone Wars played out. WE asked for this. And WE paid good money for it. Without us, there would have been no Heir to the Empire. There would have been no Phantom Menace. There would be no Clone Wars. We wanted continuity, continuation, closure. And we paid for it. What happened to "the customer is always right"? You obviously can't please all the people, all the time, but you can damn sure try harder than GL has since at least 2008.
But, like you say, it is only a story, fiction. Most of us have bigger lives, I have 2 little children myself, we are in school, we have jobs, we have bigger responsibilities. But Star Wars has become our hobby and our escape and we have collectively funded it over the years to keep it going. We just want George to care again and to have some damn continuity. The reason everything that followed Return of the Jedi has even happened is because we wanted it.
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