I watched the PT about a month ago and the OT this week (I just finished ROTJ twenty minutes ago, which is why I’m inspired to post this at this particular moment), with the second half of Rebels season 2 spread out in between as my lead-up for tomorrow’s TFA blu-ray release, and I’m really struck by how well this show works as connective tissue. The two trilogies have never felt more like they exist in the same universe for me than they did going into Star Wars straight from that last Ahsoka arc with the prequels still in recent memory.
And you don’t even really need to watch “The Clone Wars” (well, at least 10/15 episodes to understand it better). I have finished my “Rebels” season 1 run, it’s very good, even the weak episodes deliver something to the characters or the universe. It’s a ANH reboot, but a clever one (not a lazy “JJ Galaxy” thing I couldn’t care less about, with once great characters now old and useless, so old and so useless…), that links PT and OT naturally.