Vaderisnothayden said:

I don't think it's at all counterproductive to criticise the PT. There's a whole massive horde of fans out there who think the PT is the greatest thing and there's critics and other writers who praise/defend the PT films, particularly ROTS. And there's a whole Lucasfilm industry pushing the PT as the real Star Wars story while the OOT is crapped on. As long as all that's going on, criticism of the PT needs to be heard as a counterweight.

See, I think you are buying into the internet too much, especially the wacko's at TFN. The internet is such a small % of SW fans, and I would never think that this and that of the movies is determined by people who post regularly.

Plus, I think many PT fans are just spinning the trilogy and I think they know that the movies aren't as good as the OT. Now of course there are always fanboys who like anything that comes out, that happens with anything in society, but what happened over at TFN is people bashed TPM so hard, and then bashed AOTC just as much, that they felt they had to defend these movies and just lie and say they are the greatest thing in the world.