Originally posted by: AdamwankenobiBut still, none of us saw ROTS through the eyes of someone who had only previously seen TPM and AOTC. I'm curious to see how that would turn out. I'm not entirely convinced that they wouldn't care about the characters.
I realize this is anecdotal stuff, but I have a friend whose 4 year old son has gone crazy for Star Wars. His father decided he wasn't going to "ruin" the prequels for him, so he just let the kid decide for himself what he enjoyed about the Star Wars universe. He bought him all of the movies and left him alone about it.
To make a long story short, this 4 year old kid, for whatever reason, is disinterested in the prequels. He buys all of the original trilogy action figures, watches Episodes IV-VI constantly, and always goes on and on about the adventures of Luke, Han, and Leia. He gets bored watching the prequels and often stops the DVD player midway through to pop in one of the original films again.
The point of this story is that people love good movies, young or old. I think the notion is overplayed that the prequels are viewed differently because haven't been given a fair shake by curmudgeonly old fans of the originals. I'd be surprised if young fans of the prequels carry on their love of the movies into their twenties, thirties, and forties the way that OT fans have all these years after IV, V, and VI were released. Indeed, I think the young fans will grow disinterested in the prequels in a few years (if they haven't already), and if they really are given the choice between the prequels and OOT, they will prefer the OOT.
Just my $0.02.