1995 I saw the trilogy box at my best friends house and I fell inlove instantly. It was on TV in 1996 and I started watching from when Vader is talking to Leia for the first time and the droids are walking on Tatooine, it was boring me and I had to go to sleep. I went to my uncle's house in 1997 and my cousins were watching ESB the scene where Luke has his trials on Degobah and he kills the fake Vader. I didn't understand why halfway through the series Vader was killed and that he looked just like Luke then one cousin said
"That's not Vader, he dies in the sixth one when Luke takes off his mask" and one cousin said
"Sixth!? There's only three!" Another said
"Yeah I have 1, 2 and 3." And the first cousin says
"Well I have 4, 5 and 6." As he smiles.
I hadn't gotten to the "I am your father scene" It wasn't until a year later when I saw the trailers and commercials for Phantom Menace that I understood what he meant. So I decided to watch them 1-6. 1999 comes around and I miss it in theatres, but I catch the poster of Anakin's shadow being Vader and I went "Holy shit! The kid is Darth Vader!" and so the movie comes out on VHS later and I rent it, and I hear his name is Skywalker and that's when I go "DARTH VADER IS LUKE'S FATHER!" Yes, it took me until 1999. So the next day while I'm at a friends, ANH comes on and we watch it halfway through. I then go and get ESB and ROTJ from the library and I was blown away! I went back and got ANH again so I could watch the first half again. And that's when (the year 2000) that I started looking up Star Wars stuff online. The title of Episode II is released and I go, "They're gonna clone Yoda, Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme? That's weak" I had forgotten about that line from Obi-Wan. More and more is released on it and so the book is released and I get the book and read half and then the movie is released. The next few years I'm really getting riled up for ROTS and then to express my love of Star Wars I get into graphic art and eventually video editing, making my own fan clips. I remember when the first picture of Anakin was released in the hanger, I almost shat myself. So when the Teaser came out I went berzerk! I was so pumped and then eventually the next trailer and TV Spots were released and I watched the film opening night and two times more. Ever since I've been HUGE on Star Wars and have been reading EU.