Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

I've never thought it was a good idea to watch Ep.4 in the context of episodes 1/2/3. It's like watching a battle of the bands between Metallica and the Mozart String Quartet. You just can't appreciate one while being bombarded by the other. I'd be much more interested in someone's reaction to seeing them in the order they were made.

And it's not at all surprising that many people these days are reluctant to watch Star Wars. The whole franchise and saga have gotten so silly that people assume the whole lot is a bunch of juvenile silliness.

I've seen reactions of plenty of people who saw the original trilogy before the prequel trilogy so had it done it that way I would have expected the same result. I wanted to see it the other way around. So I'll have to disagree with you on that point.

I had actually given serious consideration to showing her 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6 order but as she already know going in that Vader was Luke's father, I felt no need to avoid spoiling it for her.

It isn't that she disliked A New Hope. I apologize if I made it sound that way. She actually said she liked them all. But 3, 5, and 6 were the ones that she gave the largest reaction to both during and after.