On 1/20/2018 at 4:04 PM, Desslok said:

The new trilogy has it's haters. The Prequels have their haters. There were letters running in Starlog about how Jedi was a piece of crap and there were critics ripping apart Empire for that green guy being too goofy and the story not having an ending.

Face it, if you put your work out, you have to have a thick skin.

I'm a professional creative in my day job and you're not wrong. But back in the Starlog days you had to write a physical letter and pay for a stamp in order to explain to the editor how Ewoks pandered to bleeding-heart environmentalists and ruined the franchise. Typically, the magazine included your name with the letter too.

I love fan criticism. Cracked.com has built an entire business around dissecting pop culture and comedy. However, instant and anonymous Internet feedback has both ramped up the critical emotionalism of fandom and dumbed down the fan dialog.

If I were going to play in the new timeline or with any reference to it I would certainly have to explain stuff as OP suggested. I have decided to just stay in GCW era or before for good however, and so I don't need to explain stuff that in my version of the setting will never happen.