I wanted to ask this question previously, but it seemed everyone was enjoying the current discussion. And then I was reading a lot of it on zombie's site...
What did we quote-unquote "know" about the PT before 1999? Some of it, obviously, was baseless rumour or conjecture, some of it was abandoned before the final product, and still some was actually in the movies. It looks like a lot of it is covered by zombie, but I haven't read all of it yet.
I can think of the following:
9/12/6 Movies. A trilogy of trilogies.
Mandalorian involvement
Clone Wars
Darth Vader hunted Jedi
Molten Battle between Anakin and Obiwan
Vader was the 12th Dark Lord of the Sith
Dang. I was thinking of more. What else shaped your anticipation of what the prequels would be?
xhonzi