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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
If you are going to show them the films, show them as George intends. It truly is an amzing experience. Just becuase you experienced and remember the films a certain way doesn't mean they have to. Hey, you never know. They might (gasp) like all the movies as a whole!

you mean as Lucas intended back in 77 or back in 83 after Jedi came out? How about in 95 after he released the Original Trilogy for the last time as it was seen in theatres. Or perhaps you refer to how he intended it to be seen in 97 when he released the special editions. but then again you could be talking about his 'final' version of how it should be seen in 04 when he released the official dvds. though based on talk, come 07 all these versions will be obsolete cause lucas would have changed his mind again and released a new version of how he has always intended them to be seen.

why do people still defend him on his 'this is how i intended it but didnt have the technology back then' how did he not have technology to make greedo shoot first? answer, he did, it was just NEVER his intention until 97 to do so. End of story. 85% of the changes actually hurt the flow of the story,10% are completely useless, and the other 5% are the kinds of fixes he should have made where errors and actually technical limitations were corrected.

-Darth Simon

Amen, brother. Amen.

My kids watch all of them right now. I was going to do the "watch the OT first and then when you are old enough to understand why the PT sucks, you can watch those" thing, but I figured that I wanted them to just be able to grow up on SW as a whole and appreciate it in the way that THEY will. Not the way that I did. There is no way that they could ever have the SW experience that I did and I am very interested to see what kinds of SW memories they build for themselves through their own experiences with the saga. My three sons actually do seem to gravitate to the OT, though. For some reason, they all seem (at least so far) to really love Darth Vader. I can't help but assume that, as much as it may contradict my previous statement, this has at least a little to do with my influence as Vader is my favorite character (has been since childhood and now in adulthood, having lived a rather interesting life, I appreciate the duality of the character in a whole new light) and my home is littered from top to bottom with Vader items. But whenever I ask them which one they want to watch, they usually pick either Empire or Jedi. My nephew, on the other hand, loves the prequels. My sister is also a huge SW fan and she says that her son always wants to watch AOTC (and Sith, but, since we aren't supposed to have that yet... um.... well.......).

So I guess what order your kids watch them in really does come down to whether or not you want your kids to have the experience that YOU had with the saga, or whether you want them to be able to build their own memories of it based on the availability of all six films on DVD. And just think about it. When it comes to the OT, like Simon said, you are going to have a LOT of explaining to do to them in regards to the many different versions available to them. Personally, I look to it with great anticipation as I hope my children will have at least a passing interest in the art of film making. And what better films to use in regards to the history and advancement of the art than the original trilogy?

But like I said in my previous post, it really doesn't matter how any one person feels about the films. Everyone is MEANT to feel differently when they watch a film. Because, gloriously... everyone IS different. That's why the guy makes thirty one flavors.

To each his own. Different strokes. Opinions are like..... well, you get the point.