Thought it might be fun to post some hypothetical stuff and see how people feel about it. Here's the first one:
What if...the original trilogy and all information about them had never existed, but the prequels had still been released on the same dates exactly as they are?
Do you think you'd like them? Would they seem like typical special effects-laden summer blockbuster-type movies without those ties to the past? Do you think you'd view them a little less critically, not having seen the superior movies that made them possible?
Impossible to say for sure, but I don't mind a bit of speculation now and then. I think I would've liked them about as much as I do now, perhaps a smidgen more, since the OT wasn't around to expose the nonsense in them so much. I'd still hate Jar Jar, of course, no matter what! And all the political mumbo-jumbo would still befuddle me because of my apathy for it.
I do shudder to think what episodes 4-6 would be like if they were to be made after the PT! :S