Wow dude, you just don't understand how popular it was. Yes, it was universally embraced. Star Wars was the greatest thing in the world to just about every young kid in the 1970s/1980s. If your parents disliked the OT when they were kids, they would have been like outcast freaks in any neigborhood in America back then. Dude the OT took over American pop culture, nothing since has been as popular and widely embraced as it was. Those who did not like the OT back then would have been almost impossible to find. You can't understand how popular it was if you weren't there, nothing since then has had a comparable effect on pop cultutre.