Yeah, at the end of it. But for most of the nineties SW was probably in the best place it has ever been. All three movies in the best quality home video formats available (none of us ever suspecting that someday would not be the case). Lots of EU popping up, some of it enjoyable, and tons of nifty SW related merchandise flooding the market place.

And the special editions being released to theaters in 97 was actually really exciting. It was great to see them on the big screen and I found the changes to a movie I had seen countless times before to be a fun bonus (never expecting that we would one day not be allowed to go back). I'd argue that we had it good through the nineties. Sure, The Phantom Menace hit us in 1999 and we weren't sure what to think, but in retrospect, it is the absolute best of the prequels and the only one I can stand watching.