Unfortunately, I was one of those who saw the prequels first, then the special editions. Because I was a little kid (actually, I was already eight the first time I saw a Star Wars movie) I liked the prequels better. I watched very few movies (and they were usually older or cartoons) in my early childhood, so I loved all the cool special effects and aliens and the like. I wasn't into the actual story of Star Wars, so the OT held little for me at the time. As I matured, I realized how stupid Jar Jar was, how terrible the dialogue was in the PT, how many plotholes it had, and that the OT really was Star Wars, not the PT. The PT was kind of cool, but it wasn't Star Wars. It was its own thing. Because I saw the PT first, that was Star Wars to me. When I saw the OT, it seemed to contradict the PT and I thought that was silly. I wondered why the problems in the OT weren't fixed so it matched up with the prequels. Also, I had come to have high expectations in terms of special effects, so I missed that in the OT. Now I enjoy a movie more for the story and acting than for the special effects and cool action scenes, so it seems obvious to me that the OT is better.