I should probably mention as well that when we got to Ep IV, she really liked that the special effects were less in your face and flashy. So it is true that she went into the originals expecting more flash but she was happy to not have it.

I agree with you guys 100% that she might have enjoyed ANH more if we started there, but even still, I'm quite happy with the level of preference she had for the originals overall even having seen the prequels first. To me it proves that the originals can and will still endure even with the prequels clouding people's judgement.

While watching the prequels, she never batted an eye at Yoda. He was CG and she knew he was CG. But when we got to Empire and Yoda started doing stuff CG free, she actually asked me how they did that. To me, that's success.