xhonzi,

First, I want to say that "Finlander" is freakin' great! :D Seriously, no one ever mispronounced my nickname like that before, I had a good laugh (no excuses needed, btw).

You're implying that I have such opinion of Star Wars as a whole because of the PT. Possibly. But, think about this (and since I can't remember on top of my head any prequels to film series, I'll go with sequels, and PT, though being prequels, are essentialy sequels... yeah, what a convoluted phrase). The fact that PT made OT suck for you is not in favor of the OT. For example... Do Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions make the original Matrix suck for you (in case if you liked/loved the Matrix)? No (at least for me). Do the Dead Men's Chest and At World End's make the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie suck? Nah. Does Batman & Robin make Tim Burton's Batman suck? Of course not. Alright, the last example is a stretch, those Batman films are distanced enough to forget about Batman & Robin. My point is, why then PT should make the OT any worse? Is it really the the OT that is good, or the childhood memories that are good?

I can't answer what I would think about the OT if the PT didn't exist for me. But, I can say that it's not PT's existence that made me think different of Star Wars Saga. As I said, there are things I like in the PT, there are things I like in the OT, so a perfect parallel universe for me would be the one where neither PT nor OT existed, but a nice blend of the two.

PS. And nobody answered on how Palpatine and Vader planned to turn Luke to the Dark Side of the Force. :p OT-wise.