My brother became a Star Wars fan when he was about 9. He loved the OT and was quite okay with TPM. When he saw AOTC about a year later, he lost interest in SW for a long while, because he thought the movie was a piece of crap. And yet AOTC was the one with the richest wisuals to date. So no, I have faith in future generations.
And since I have nothing nice to say about GL, I will now leave this thread (for a while at least).