Just as an aside...

A lot of people here might not realize it, but I was only 14 years old when Phantom Menace came out. This, I believe, is the same age our old friend Anchorhead was when he first saw Star Wars. Does that mean I grew up with the prequels then? I guess it does. I was also twelve when I first saw the Special Edition of Star Wars, and it still to this day is the most important and enjoyable theatrical experience of my life, so I guess in a sense I grew up with the SE as well. Yet a decade later, I'm running savestarwars.com. That's why I think this notion of "anyone who grows up with the prequels will treat them as the older generations treated the OT" totally false, and same with the SE.

My friends were all the same age as me, of course, being 14 when Phantom Menace came out and 17 when Attack of the Clones came out, and we enjoyed the prequels as entertainment while they lasted, but at the end of the day I don't think I know a single person who has re-watched them since they were new, but I don't know anyone who doesn't re-watch the OT from time to time, even if it is just on the television re-runs. It's true that people are more casual about the SE though, but that's because they are more casual fans than us. They just want to see the films, and meh, the SE is the same basic movie, right? They accept the SE, but only because the SE is the only choice being offered and they aren't going to fight some campaign to see the originals like us. So, the SE is tolerated, but only by default, and that's an important distinction.