To me this is the decade that ruined Star Wars:
1994: The prequels were announced, and everyone had high hopes. Warn someone to storm the editing room and tell them Jar Jar is going to ruin the movie, and also tell Lucas that Anakin creating C-3PO is a stupid idea, and do a flashback scene of a young Anakin so the whole movie isn't a waste.
1997: The Special Editions are announced and the death of the originals. I would tell older fans not to show up to the theater to see them, and the gross for these movies were would be minimal, and Lucas would reconsider if it was worth it to make these changes. Instead SW made 138,000,000 as a re-release, and to Lucas it was a success.
1999: Tell older fans only to see TPM once, not go back a second time just to give it a second shot. I would tell them that I know you guys haven't seen a SW film in 16 years, but I am telling you it sucks. I had friends who saw it more than 2 times, and to Lucas seeing a 431,000,000, no matter what people said, it was a success.
Late 1999: Get a committee of fans to demand not to use an unknown actor named Hayden Christenson as Anakin, tell Lucas to get Spielberg to direct Episode II & III, and bribe Lawrence Kasdan to write the next to prequel screenplays.
By then, maybe AOTC could have been better which would have made ROTS better, and maybe would have the originals on DVD, and only one shitty SW movie of the 6, and I could live with that.