I was in high school when ROTS came out, so I'm kind of the in between generation, where I was raised on the originals but I also just young enough to be 'wide eyed' about the prequels. I remember my dad taking me to see TPM and I loved it. Then when AotC came out, I was a little older and wiser, and I still enjoyed it but something about it didn't sit right with me. By the time RotS came out, I understood that these movies were never going to be as good or culturally relevant as the originals. I sat through it, and I enjoyed it, but in the end, it felt like an empty shell.

In the years since, I have trouble sitting all the way through any of the prequels. TPM is probably my favorite, because I think it best captured some of the original spirit and fun of Star Wars. Sure, it has a pretty bad child actor, an annoying cartoon rabbit, and seems to be packed full of plot holes and poor writing, but it none the less had a sense of discovery, and fun moments.

Anyways, I got off topic... The point of this, is that Episode VII news didn't really shake my world. I didn't start to get excited until JJ was announced as director, and the original 3 were rumored to return. I enjoy Ardnt's writing, I trust JJ to respect the original material, and I don't think the original three would return if they didn't trust the script. So once all of these things came together, I started to actually care about what happens with the movie. And now I *want* to see it, and I *want* it to be good.

The original trilogy is and will always be Star Wars, where as the prequels were almost like poorly made fan films in my mind. I originally expected the sequel trilogy to also turn out as poorly made fan films, but now I really want them to be part of what I consider Star Wars.