unamochilla2 said:
I can only imagine how confused moviegoers were when they first saw Episode V in the crawl! Or maybe they didn't even really notice...?
They noticed. Lots of murmuring in the audience, IIRC. At least when I went opening weekend.
Lucas got his "middle trilogy" explanation out to the media around the same time though, and it was less of a confusing surprise by the end of the summer.