DarkFather said:

We've colletively bought quite a lot of prequel-based products, probably thousands of dollars, while also raising "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" television ratings. You can't make an argument that the majority of OT.com enjoy the PT.

I can't make the argument the majority of us even like the OT judging from some of the posts I read.

And if we're buying/patronizing/watching all this material, I think it's probably because we like it, even as we like bitching about it. Life's short, and there's no shortage of entertainment options.

In the end, it's out of our hands, and Lucas's how these films endure. I guess we'll know someday. But I still stand to say that it's premature or foolish to say that the consensus is that the PT sucked, because it apparently is quite liked by lots of people (including I beleive, more of us than admit it).

But it's happening in many fans. Look how the TCW CGI film did in the box office. Good, if we're judging it alongside other, non-Star Wars films.

I think it's a pretty good barometer to the Star Wars love out there that a made-for-tv pilot with limited marketing could still be a moderate success, especially for being a low-budget CGI movie not clearly aimed at the CGI movie kiddie crowd.