Yes, I'm the guy that was disappointed by the first two prequels. I'm the guy who was sure that Return of the Sith just couldn't be any good. How would it be possible that the payoff to a letdown be anything but a bigger letdown?

I'm also the guy who likes the original trilogy, but who has never lived or died by it. The guy who's well-versed without being slavishly faithful. The guy who felt like the prequels just didn't work as movies, not that they didn't work as Star Wars movies.

So today I saw the last Star Wars movie that's ever likely to be made, and I liked it. No, I really liked it. There are a number of things about it that are bad - it's not perfect, but what Star Wars movie is? Does anyone else remember two robots dicking around the desert for the first twenty minutes of A New Hope? YES, the dialogue is problematic and YES the acting is often wooden (shoot me now, but I thought Hayden Christensen was actually good here) and YES the effects are often overcrowded and overwhelming and numbing. But I also found myself caring about the characters for the first time in a while, and actually being invested in what was going on. I thought a number of sequences were spectacularly handled and showed real invention, not just busy doodling come to life.

It gets worse. I'm now the guy who likes Sith enough that I feel like it casts the previous two films in a new light. I mean, it really PLAYS when taken as a whole piece, right? I mean, maybe I've been totally mistaken all along. Maybe they do work after all...

I'm that guy. I'm the prequel convert. Chop off my legs and burn me alive, I'm the prequel convert.