zombie84 said:

CO, whenever you post I feel like me and you had a very similar childhood experience growing up. I was too young to see them in theatres and grew up in the 1980s watching them on video. My dad taped SW off television for me and then later ESB and I watched those over and over. At one point I taped over Star Wars, but then someone gave me a recording of ROTJ from HBO. Later I re-taped Star Wars but then lost ESB. I finally bought ESB on video when I was ten, my first video purchase ever. Then when the 1995 Faces tapes came out, I only bought SW and ROTJ because I already owned ESB. So 1997 was the first time I bought a boxset. I never really thought of them as one big story, even though there is a logical progression that you get a sense of, but I mainly just enjoyed each film on its own merits.

It may be just a generational thing as every kid today has ALL the movies to watch back to back. But I was from a generation where you had to wait YEARS for the release of the movie to either home video or HBO. Heck, I waited 6 damn years to Star Wars again in 1983!!!!

I was like that with all the movies I grew up with. I never thought of 'the Rocky Story', I watched Rocky II a zillion times in either 1980 or 1981 when it came to HBO, (I actually saw Rocky II before seeing Rocky because I was too young to see it in theaters).

I often wonder if Lucas made SW movies much like Indiana Jones movies as each movie would have its own story and that would have given him more freedom to write the story without being indebted to the previous ones. Well...thats another topic!