re: Star Wars - A New Hope: How Flawed is it?

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When ESB came out, the opening crawl had it as Episode 5. Star Wars was retconned immediately to the name Star Wars: A New Hope Episode IV, and ROTJ was Episode VI in the original theatrical release.

I mean...come on dude.

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I'll be damned. I don't ever remember that ever being mentioned when either movie was released. I do, now that you mention it, remember that on the opening crawl but I think most viewers thought it was meant to be some sort of interstellar mumbojumbo that was not meant to be taken literally. I do remember that the commercials advertised it as the follow up and second film, of course that was accurate. You must also remember that we did not have the internet and news was not constantly churning on television so, I imagine, unless you read the trade papers it was unlikely you thought anything about the crawl. Sequals were also a rarity in thsoe days so I don't believe anyone would have ever believed there would be 6 films.