[Supermancho]

Indeed, a story is whatever the viewer wants it to be, because it's fiction. Disney marketing and time are effective brain-o. Nobody will care in a couple decades, other than the niche watchers of the "real story behind Star Wars Disney".

[tstrimple]

I think the success of Marvel vs DC is one indicator that people do care about a more consistent world and story and are less interested in re-introducing the exact same characters over and over again in their own mini series of movies constantly retelling the same origin stories in different flavors.

[joquarky]

At least a quarter of the population applies this to non-fiction as well.