yoda-sama said:

Harmy said:

See, I'm 24, which is just about older by enough to have been exposed to the original version first and that seems to have made quite a difference to my perception of things.

That'd put Harmy at about 8 years old when the SE's came out theatrically, which actually does perfectly land him in a time frame where he'd get good exposure to the close-to-theatrical home videos first. I hadn't really thought about it until now, but I suppose a birth year of around or just after 1989 is about the cutoff for Star Wars fandom vs SE apathy. Granted there are exceptions (many of which we'll cause on purpose in the future with Harmy's work), but overall that's probably a good standard to gauge by.

I'm 26, so a bit older than Harmy but I was having about the same exposure I would say. I grew up with the originals on VHS and then later saw the 1997 SE on VHS too, but always preferred the originals as they were the ones I saw the most.

It's great that at present, we have the availability of the original films from many different sources, so much more than what was available to me when I was watching them on VHS, as I was too young to buy my own laserdisc player and my parents also couldn't afford one.