haraldo23 said:
This is more of a questions for those who saw The Original Trilogy back when it 1st came out, when prequels were years and years away...
Well, I'm not one of you guys - fact is I was born in '87 and never got to properly see the OT until '99. That being said I didn't know George was making prequels until almost literally the last minute, so there was some time for me to think about how the prequel era might have been before the PT wave rolled in.
1. I expected Anakin to be older at the time he became a Jedi, more-or-less the same age as Luke
2. I expected the Jedi to be like the Jedi in the EU: non-dogmatic, allowed to marry, have children, families, etc.
3. I expected the clones to be the enemy in the Clone Wars
4. I expected the Mandalorians to have a large role in the Clone Wars, serving pretty much as nemeses of the Jedi
5. I expected Palpatine to be more of a background character - someone who wouldn't be focused on until the final prequel
6. I expected Palpatine to be a self-taught dark side sorceror, not a Sith
7. I expected multiple lightsaber colours for the Jedi
8. I didn't expect there to be any Sith (Vader and any other non-Palpatine darksiders would be simple Dark Jedi)
9. I expected the look and tone of the PT to match that of the OT
10. I expected the PT era to be more archaic in terms of architecture, technology, etc.
11. I expected Anakin's wife to be a minor character
12. I didn't expect Palpatine to use a lightsaber
13. I did expect Yoda to have a lightsaber, but I thought it would be purple instead of green
14. I expected the PT era to be "a more civilized time" - ie. no wide-spread corruption in the Senate, at least not at first
15. I didn't expect any Darths other than Vader.