Originally posted by: Starboy
- what did you picture or hope for in the new trilogy *before* any of this happened?

I bailed on the series after seeing ROTJ in 1983. I had already started to loose interest after ESB. So for me, the Star Wars universe was the first film only. Because of all that, I expected absolutely nothing from the prequels. I'd also seen still shots of the SEs and knew Lucas' new ideas were nothing that interested me.

More than anything, I went to see the first of the prequels out of curiosity. I figured there was a remote chance it might be a return to form - or at least interesting, deep, well acted, etc. It ended up being none of those things. It was infinitely worse than ROTJ. It was everything I feared it might be. I've not seen the last two.