I actually preferred the look of the OT as a kid, but then again I had a mother who showed me a lot of old films so there was never a contemporary “norm” for me, just a bunch of movies that looked different.
Exactly my point!! I know all of us would be pleasantly surprised and happy, but I wonder if the very thing we hope for would be received well by the casual fan.
I think it will go both ways. Retro is kind of trendy right now, and SW has a lot of nostalgia and retro-ness to take advantage of. However I feel like the upcoming Rogue One will look very modern, and although that probably won’t sit to right with us, I think most people will really like it. I actually don’t think most people really notice these kinds of things, at least not consciously. I’ve always been very conscious of it, but like I said I watched a lot of old films growing up. Most people tend to latch on to whatever’s new and trendy, and luckily for us Star-Wars-retro is trendy right now. But I think people would have had bad reactions if they made the new films were genuinely old-looking, and most people wouldn’t bat an eye if they fully modernized them. Most people didn’t with the PT and they probably won’t with the anthology films either.
This is why I always tell people to show old films to their kids from the beginning.