"If: You watched Star Wars as a child and accepted the challenge of going out there and having your own adventure, you could enjoy the prequels as fun films with the same great nods to myth and cinema history the OT had.

If: After you watched Star Wars as a child, you fixated on it and centered your emotional life around the OT to a quasi-religious level of fervor, the revelation that the prequels were not going to answer the deep life questions you had left unanswered put you on the verge of a nervous breakdown." -En-Jidai Geki

I ran across this great quote in one of the endless argumentative threads in the Episode I section of the Star Wars Message Boards.

People will surely attack this quote as too broad of a generalization. I will say, it is a generalization, but one that contains a great deal of truth.

What I am getting at is the point behind it. The unspoken question that lies within it, that lies in yourself....can you still watch Star Wars as a child? If not, why not?