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With regards to the PT, I think kids who grew up liking TPM will come to appreciate ROTS. the most, and this will be enhanced if they also happen to enjoy the OT even more. So your theory doesn't really hold. I understand though that you've gone to great pains to make sure that the OT is the only thing that matters, as do many posters here, but nostalgia can have a huge effect on experience. In the same way it has frozen many people's views of the OT into a kind of sacred text, the kids who had their indoctrination to Star Wars with the PT films (helped along by repeated viewings of the SE PT no doubt) will probably feel differently about the PT than you or even I do.
Dex...I get what you mean. Most of us are emotionally too close to the OT cuz of the memories we have associated with it. I've tried to look at the PT objectively, but I just don't see the appeal there. I see the potential though.
We are probably missing the point altogether....we should be viewing all the films as one film. Lucas has said this time and time again.
Future generations will probably count it as one whole movie, but we, at this time, are just being partial.