Originally posted by: Obi JeewhyenCheck the temperature in Hell, folks ... 'cause I am disagreeing with CO for the first time.
I don't believe future fans will necessarily buy into George's numbering scheme. I think the fame of the films will be such that the numbering scheme will be recognized as an artificial construct and, even if the real first movie is remembered as "A New Hope" (arrrrrgghghgh!!!!), it will be widely known that it was the first movie of the 6 Star Wars films.
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I have to disagree with ya, cause I am already seeing it with my nephews, as they see it as one saga now rather then the way we see it.

The problem is that in one sense they are seeing Georges vision of 6 episodes of Darth Vaders story, and what has happened is that they just aren't huge SW fans cause the overall quality is mediocre now.

For any OOT fans here, lets just say ESB was an alright sequel, more in the vein of ROTJ, would any of us here be diehard OT fans? No, we would SW '77 fans, which would probably be one of our favorites of all-time, and just say the sequels are OK, but I just can't watch 2 OK films over and over.

I will contend the only reason a majority of us still watch ROTJ is not for its quality, but cause it gives us closure on the OT. I love SW more then anything in the world, and I love ESB it is such a great sequel, but ROTJ is alright, but it will always hang on with the two classics, and never leave that OT collection, cause it wouldn't be complete without it.

Now think of a 1-6 fan, who has a couple of mediocre movies. My nephew sees it as one saga, sees it as Anakins story, just like Lucas wants, but he has moved on from SW. He thought ANH, ESB, and suprisingly ROTS were the 3 best, and the others were OK. So that leaves him with 3 average movies, and the overall story now of seeing all 6 movies together, rather then falling in love with 1 SW movie like us and wanting more, has left him..........without falling in love with ANY SW movie, cause he saw them as one entity. Now compare that to myself where SW '77 is my favorite movie of all-time, and no matter how much Lucas fucked up the movies after 1977, that movie will always be #1.

Mr. Lucas, you wanted fans to see it 1-6, I know from my nephew you got your wish. The problem now is that he has moved on to Pirates of the Caribbean II, and SW was just a cool thing in 2005. Lucas may have to re-read the old saying, "Keep wishing for something, and you just may get it." I think I said that right?