Now we'll never know how Darth McPoopyPants was ever going triumph against Snoo Snoo the lovable apelike monster!
Yeah, when GL started letting his kids name characters in the Prequels, and then made everyone someone else’s father, including See-Threepio, I was like:

The original trilogy is a lovely frayed mesh of references to things which are never seen or heard from again, allowing the viewer’s mind to extrapolate a rich background. Perhaps the Prequels greatest offense was showing us that, no, Lucas really only had a few characters and the worlds were at best sketched out. He’s no Tolkien.