I can't really place my finger on what ruined SW for me. But I do agree that it has lost its level of fanaticism in my mind these last few years. I have come to appreciate ANH and ESB more as I get older and ROTJ less. I'm still the reverse on the PT movies from Rebel. I still like AOTC better than TPM. But I still have to see TPM again.

It's weird how things change when you grow up. When you're a kid, you swear that nothing could ever be better than the OT. They were my favorite movies of all time. But as I grew up, other movies start to encroach on what was once unattainable status. Now, ESB is the only SW film still in my top 20 films of all time. And even that is not in the #1 spot (Shawshank Redemption is).

I guess this could change once I have kids and expose them to SW. Hoping that they enjoy it as much as I did.