Always and forever:
I've been a geek of and have followed for years and years
Star Trek and
The X-Files and now BBM, but nothing has come close to the
Star Wars movies. I very very much liked the Old Trilogy. I hold up
The Empire Strikes Back as one of the best sci-fi/fantasy movies ever made. But, who wouldn't like the Old Trilogy? They are the underdogs, the good guys against incredible odds, Sticking it to the Man feel-good movies. We have sexy bad boy pirates, spunky princesses, farm boys becoming men and making good, evil guys in black.
But being contrary as usual, though the Prequel Trilogy has immense weaknesses in plot and acting and direction and the movies are scorned by fans and non-fans alike, I found the Prequel movies more interesting and intriguing.
What you have is more complicated. You find a series of movies where the universe isn't black and white. Where people you thought were good and could trust really aren't or they change. A series of movies where 'good' guys fall to weaknesses and become the epitome of evil, intelligent young women make bad personal choices (a classic "Why smart women make stupid decisions"), friends are betrayed, good guys struggle against the bad, trying to hold things together and stick to the law and their honor when the bad guys have no such compunctions, just to find out they were all duped into a trap that left the good guys no way out with tragic consequences for them and the entire galaxy.
I read official' books and comics and read and write fan fiction about the Old Republic and its characters and situations.
Guess I'm more interested in tragedies.