Originally posted by: Jumpman
Can I ask a serious question?

Were you guys this picky when it came to The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi back in the day?

I was five when Jedi came out so I wasn't "hip" to Star Wars yet, eventhough I liked watching them.

I was 5 when SW came out in '77 and absolutely love it and that hasn't changed. At 8 years old, I did not love ESB in 1980, too dark for me, but I loved ROTJ at 11 years old in 1983. I think Lucas saw that alot of kids like me were turned off at the adult & dark tone of ESB, and I think he made a calculated choice that any future SW movies were not going to be like ESB.

Lucas was at a crossroads after ESB, the movie didn't gross nearly as much as SW, so he had to look at the masses or a particular audience, and he went for the masses, and as I said, I loved ROTJ at 11 years old, but quality rears its ugly head as you get older and wiser, and I believe alot of young kids who like the PT movies are going to look at them in 15-20 years like we did with the OT years later and re-evaluate the movies, just like any movie.

Sure kids are not going to go on the internet and talk about the stuff we do, kids are kids, but that doesn't mean you cater to them. TPM caters to kids, ANH doesn't, and that is what Lucas missed after ESB. You can make a serious movie with a serious story and serious themes, and not need certain characters to cater to kids. There are so many movies I loved growing up that didn't cater to kids one bit, but I could still enjoy them just as much: Superman movies, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, all those movies were made for teenagers that adults can enjoy and kids too, and all of those movies have aged well cause they don't Ewoks & Gungans polluting the movie, that you look on 20 years later and say, WTF?