Yeah, that's just my point. It would be really interesting to be able to find out how the prequels would have performed at the box office if they hadn't been Star Wars films, or if they had been the first and only Star Wars films. The prequel lovers love to point out how much money the prequels brought in, but that's because it had a built-in fanbase that was HUGE. The original Star Wars managed to bring in all those people before Star Wars in name was enough to bring people in. It did it on its own merits as a film. And I really wonder if the prequels could have done that on their own without being connected to the Star Wars mythos.