I was thinking, what if GL had decided to release the saga in order. Would we charish the PT more than the OT? Would the first half have more or less significance than the latter half? Would Star Wars have died a painful existance than, instead of the success that it has right now? Would I even be writing on this forum? Would the prequal movies have had the same impact on movie goers as the original trilogy did in the late 70's early 80's. Think back to the quality of Sci-Fi material back in the Late 70's, you can almost count the good Sci-Fi movies on one hand.... 2001: A Space Odessey and Alien. Would the PT have fueled the love for Sci-Fi as much as the Original trilogy? Are we just so overwelled by the amount of Star Wars and Sci-fi content today that the PT today just did not have that much of an impact on us as the OT?

My whole point of this topic is to think how those that were old enough to see the original trilogy for the first time back then, if they would have reacted the same for the PT like the OT? (I was not old enough to see them when they first came out.) Was society ready for such a story considering the political and economical situation of the time? If the star war franchised fail after TPM what would the movie industry be like today?

So what is your point of view?