It's a small galaxy after all

What is more important: please the fans, or serve the story ?

Is the limit so easy to draw ?
When Boba Fett was added to the special edition of ANH, was it only to wink at the fans, generate more cards to collect and action figures to play with, or was it a valid move, because knowing that Boba was just one of Jabba's cronies, like 'krispa Greedo', would give the character more interesting 'canon' data to play with ?

The answer is: both, because avid collecting freaks need more sealed boxes, and fans are always hungry for official stories about their heroes.

Revisiting the Lars' homestead in AOTC was a clever move, because it solves 3PO's knowledge of binary moisture vaporator in ANH ("It's like a second language to me"), introduces the Owen and Beru characters, and of course, makes us visit once more that well known place where Luke grows up ...

ROTS is no exception, since we get to see governor Tarkin, complete with nearly imperial uniform, supervising the behemoth space station building.
We also see early TIEs, star destroyers, X-Wings, the real Tantive IV Corellian Corvette, with genuine Captain Antilles, responsible for 3PO's mind wipe (if you take my meaning).

And ... I think I'm really imagining things here, but it seems to me that one of the troopers attending Obi-Wan's briefing before his departure to Utapau has something of a resemblance with a very young (17 or 19 years old) Han Solo !
I know the age doesn't really match with the movie time frame, but nearly ... if Solo is in his late thirties during ANH, it could work !

It is not unlikely that thanks to Palpatine's propaganda during the clone wars, humans found the desire to enlist in the republic army, soon to become the imperial armed body.

That idea is validated by a woman republic officer I saw briefly during one of the battle sequences, she did not look like a Jedi.
And I don't think she's Mon Mothma, who is more political than military anyway.
Speaking of which ... where the blazes is Mon Mothma ??? I saw the action figure, but she seems to hve been cut from the movie !
Let's hope she will make her way to the DVD deleted scenes section :)

Wait a minute ... didn't Mace Windu do that already ?