I thought that was the whole point the prequels were for a different generation but had to ride the coatails of nostalgia to at least get the oot fans to bring their children to see the movies.
I mean come on guys everyone grew up and away from star wars being in their thrities or forties. Trying to relive our childhoods and deny kids theirs is a bit extreme.
That does not excuse Lucas however from not making the new trilogy more all age friendly like the originals.
But he the fact he failed to recapture the magic of the original series will always leave fans the impression they have a right to condemn Lucas as a person and human being.
So the films sucked. So we still have the original movies if albeit in 1993 laserdisc quality. And that is the real issue fans hate the special editions and the prequels to no end. Because Lucas buried and destroyed their beloved holy trilogy. Said with a grain of salt and sarcasm a-plenty.
The shit quality of the gout does not allow me to recommend those dvd's to anyone much less purchase for my nephew who loves star wars. I refuse to spend money on what a young kid would see as unwatchable quality after watching the restored 2004 set. I call the gout the offcial Lucas bootleg because that is in fact what it is in terms of quality.
In a consumer based society you would think the originals being non restored and non anamorphic would prevent them from selling well. You would think it would be a case of no restoration=no sale. But not enough people have HDTV's or 16:9 televisions to warrant them wasting money on what Lucas considers to be inferior and surpassed rough drafts of the movies. A new high definition scan would cost millions of dollars if done to the standard people want of frame by frame restoration in 4k, and 6k for the vistavision opticals. He never paid for the restoration of the 1997 versions supposedly fox spent 20 million dollars to restore them, and Lucas got back the rights to the original star wars and they in tern got the lucritive distribution rights to the prequel trilogy. And First Refusal on all new star wars films. It in no wonder they turned down Clone Wars and Lucas took it to warners who screwed him over on THX 1138 in his own words.