write a replacement backstory for the OT, either on paper, or in your mind. Seriously,

because that's what I'm doing, and when I watch the Original trilogy, no thoughts of the "prequels" ever come to my mind:

I imagine Sebastian Shaw Behind Vader's Mask, I picture Luke and Leia's Mother as a Jackie-Kennedy type figure and not a selfish pu$$y whose husband was more important to her than her children,

and the force remains something fantastic and mystical, not a cheap freak of nature,

just as the force ghosts remain a spiritual afterlife, and not a cheap Jedi trick.