I don't want to be a downer, and I'm glad you enjoy it, but... I find that engaging with fictional universes this way really exposes the man behind the curtain

I don't want to be a downer, and I'm glad you enjoy it, but... I find that engaging with fictional universes this way really exposes the man behind the curtain - contrivances that we forgive because they further the plot within the context of a story suddenly stand out as hugely improbable, or inconsistent with the rest of the universe. Stories are only really designed to feel realistic from a particular perspective - when you glom them together, you don't really get a very coherent universe. It may be a ticklish premise that Darth Maul actually survives and goes on to do this or that, but when you've been reading about Jedi and Sith who've all cheated death in some improbable way dozens of times each, it stretches credibility. It may be fun to read a story about a tiny ship with more destructive power than the Death Star, but if you've just been reading all about the Death Star and how hard it was to build then it starts to raise uncomfortable (and unanswerable) questions about the underlying universe.