And honestly?
Is this an actual question? đ
The Prequels:
To start with, I donât dislike them nearly as much as people here. They were the Star Wars that I grew up with. Everyone who got to grow up with the originals, thatâs awesome and Iâm jealous, but being a kid and growing up with the prequels was pretty damn awesome too. That nostalgia runs DEEP (like in my blood deep), and it makes me a little sad to see all the vitriol directed at such an integral part of my childhood. Yes, they are flawed, but damn, theyâre not as bad as this collective forum would lead you to believe. Blasphemous opinion coming in hot: They are more Star Wars to me than TFA is.
I know where youâre coming from, as I too grew up with the PT. The one thing that I have to disagree with, is that even though I have glorious nostalgia for TPM, and almost as much nostalgia for AOTC, I still really hate them, because they are terrible films. I also grew up (mostly) with the 2004 DVD versions of the OT, and I probably enjoyed the prequels more than those as a young-en too. I have zero nostalgia for ROTS, because I didnât see it until I was like 10 years old, and I was really disappointed in it. When I got older, and continued watching TPM and AOTC, I felt less of a connection as more time went on. I also began discovering a new love for the original versions of the OT (which I first watched on a Faces VHS set thatâs still on my shelf), and I began disliking a lot more things about the PT. Then, I began to lose a little bit of my liking for ROTJ too, but not enough to matter a great deal. All in all, Iâm not sure I would say theyâre âmore Star Warsâ to me, but I definitely would rather rewatch TPM for nostalgia than rewatch TFA for nothing.
Well, that was a long paragraph đ.