I think Bob has put more thought into the Mario Bros. continuity than most of the people who work at Nintendo, and I'm honestly not certain if I'm more amused or impressed.
I've never been the biggest Star Wars geek. Oh, I like the movies well enough, at least the original trilogy. I grew up mostly in the eighties; what kid didn't want to be a Jedi at some point? And I also quite enjoyed the original Bioware Knights of the Old Republic. But most of what I've read of and about the "extended universe" is just... How do I put this? At best, it was "more of the same"- you thought bounty hunters were cool? Here's another one. You thought smugglers were cool? Here. Jedi? Yeah, we gots yo' Jedi. At worst, it screwed up what was most effective about the original trilogy, Midichlorian-style. "Grey Jedi"...? Either diluting the pool or polluting it.
I'm sure if I searched hard enough, I'd find some continuity that I felt an iron-clad need to defend. In the case of the "Extended Universe", though, it's genuinely hard for me to understand why someone would feel a need to get bitter about something with a quality that the kindest person would describe as "uneven".