SilverWook said:

I can only imagine the frustration of fans who had seen Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing in other movies before Star Wars. 😉

Yeah I knew there’d be older people when watching SW for the first time that would know Alec Guiness from other films (have no idea really about Peter Cushing’s history) which is why I said specifically that it works best for me 😉 It’s an individual thing I guess but I found it’s one of the things that sets it apart from many other movies and really helps cement the characters into the story and universe in your mind when you initially only know those people as those characters.

For instance, Padme’s head of security that’s with her at the start of AOTC when they blow up her ship and kill her double - he’s originally from a show in Australia called “Water Rats” (it’s about Water Police) which the second I see him that’s all I can think of him in (even though I never really ever watched the show) and just pulls me out of the movie universe (probably doesn’t help that his performance is pretty wooden, it is the PT after all 😉 ).

.Val