Side note, though I’ve mentioned it before, it’s funny to me how I must be in the minority that really found TPM super boring despite seeing it at age 4.
I just found it to be confusing. And I was six when I first saw it.
A lot people tend to retroactively forget that the prequels never actually explain anything lore-wise. It just kind of expects you to already know, which is weird when your target audience is kids. Especially since I, like many people here, and most people born after ca. 1990 in general, was intentionally exposed to “Episode I” first.
(I guess I’m lucky that AOTC and ROTS hadn’t come out yet, as I had a much easier time getting into the OT as it was more coherent.)
I can’t remember ever thinking movies were real, I was just really blown away when I found out just exactly how much of it was fake and how they did it. (However, I do remember that at age four I believed all TV was done live because of sitcoms.)