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>Well apparently the only people hating on them at the time were the boomers with internet access.
No, boomers didn't feel super strongly about the prequels in either direction because only the very youngest of the tail end of the generation were still teenagers when A New Hope released. The overwhelming majority of boomers were adults well into their 20s when they saw Star Wars for the first time and many were in their 30s when ESB dropped. It was genx who got their panties in a twist over the prequels because it didn't live up to their childhood nostalgia driven expectations of what Star Wars was supposed to be. If you look into the figures who have been the most aggressively outspoken about how awful the prequels were and how they ruined Star Wars and never should have happened, almost all of them turn out to be mid to late genxers. Boomers, millennials and zoomers don't have the same knee jerk reaction to the prequels being brought up because they all see Star Wars for what it is, an influential space fiction movie franchise. They don't attach their very identity to it so when it does things they don't expect or don't like it doesn't feel like a personal affront.
Turns out growing up as latchkey kids with one VHS tape at home to keep the nerds who didn't want to play outside entertained did have some deleterious effects in the end.
