Originally Posted by pompousjohn

I'll assume it's an honest question, so:

4, 5 and 6 were released in the 70's and 80's.

1, 2 and 3 were released in the 90's and 2000's and were in many opinions a very poor attempt to explain then events leading up to 4, 5 and 6.

Not that 1, 2 and 3 aren't decent movies in their own right, just there are quite a few conflicts in the narrative, specifically:

Obi Wan Kenobi ages about 50 years in the 20 years between the end of 3 and the beginning of 4, he also forgets all about C3P0 and R2D2, both of whom he spent a lot of time with in 1, 2 and 3.

Luke was supposedly sent to tattoine to hide him from the Sith, for some reason hiding with his own family under his own name in his father's hometown was considered a good idea.

Anakin was considered to old to be given Jedi training at the age of 9 but an exception was made, but Luke became a Jedi in under a week at 20 from doing handstands with Yoda.

There is no reason for Leiah to be a princess since her mother abdicated her throne and became a Senator at least 10 years before she was born.

The Storm troopers all forgot how to shoot their weapons between episodes 3 and 4.

R2D2 forgot how to fly in that time as well.

Obi Wan forgets he was trained by Qui Gon Jin and tells Luke he was trained by Yoda.

Leiah claims she remembers her "real" mother, who died in childbirth.

So it's all pretty fucked. I am forcing my kids to sit through an original trilogy marathon before we go see the new one, hopefully it will be less insulting to the original material, like, hopefully the writers are more than vaguely familiar with the events in the story.