And I completely forgot to mention that in my experience with online forums (going back more than 20 years) is that you always have people who disagree. You always have people who feel very strongly about things. But you can also have things happen that change the nature of the forum. Usually it involves an apparent gulf between new and old members and how the moderators handle it often dictates if the forum lives or dies (not literally, but in the sense of the forum being what it once was). So far I haven’t see that form of descent here and we have some top notch moderators. I think I would categorize fans by when the found Star Wars. Was it the originals in the theater? On home video? The Special Editions? The Prequels? Or now the Sequels? That is going to color a lot of their opinions and you really can’t change them. That is why I think acknowledging that everyone’s opinion (especially about Star Wars around here) is valid. Yes, this is originaltrilogy.com which should give anyone who comes here a clear indication of what this site is about, but someone can love the PT, even consider one or more of them their favorite of the Saga, and still want to see the original unaltered trilogy.
Feel free to love the PT all you want. But if you think they’re well made movies, you’re objectively wrong.
Furthermore, this idea that you love the PT based on when you saw it is a crutch. There are plenty of people here who grew up with the PT and still understand they’re bad movies.