I think the sequels will be much more accepted especially by the fans that grew up watching them, but not as much as the prequels.

Read many critic reviews and you will see how useless movie critics are, they should get rid of them, it has become a pointless "profession" full of corruption and zero benefit to the audience.

To answer the post, no I don't think people will "warm up" to the sequels. Even Disney knows how bad they were. What was the last thing Disney did in the sequels era? Heck, The Last Jedi was so divisive that they decided to bring Palpatine back. Rian forgot that he was supposed to be part of a Trilogy and killed the 2 main antagonists (Phama and Snoke) leaving the 1st Order in the hands of a brat throwing tantrums and with zero leadership skills.

I think the reaction in some years will be warmer but not as much as the prequels. They are too unorganized, way too messy and extremely divisive. The prequels reaction was not as bad (I lived through it)... then again, internet was not a thing back then.

I lived through it too and I should say that Ahmed Best, Jake Lloyd may disagree with how toxic it was. Prequel hatred made it into TV comedy series.

Honestly yes. Nostalgia does wonders. Even just plain old aging.

Actually we're already seeing this in action given the sequels are doing better in polls.

^^Agree. There was even a documentary made about how divisive the PT was and how it ruined Star Wars for many fans. It includes pop culture references like the South Park episode where George Lucas rapes a stormtrooper (and both Lucas and Steven Spielberg rape Indiana Jones). The analogy obviously being that these creators f’d their own franchises…

In 30 years the ST will have solidified its spot in the Star Wars lore, and there will be newer movies and media that will have taken its place as the center of fanbase toxicity. There is a whole generation of kids (like mine) with the sequels as their primary Star Wars reference point.

^ I couldn't agree more.

^^ The issue comes then...

Where exactly are they?

The most common places I see lots of Sequel-related content are fanfic sites and Tumblr, which is a very specific subset of the internet as a whole and pretty insular, I'll be honest.

(And this is coming from a guy who is both a semi-active fanfic writer and who has a Tumblr)

Like you have that tight-knit community, sure, but it's, again, a fairly small portion of the utterly gargantuan fandom Star Wars has a whole.

And indeed, one of the best ways to determine if a fanbase is thriving in terms of the content is seeing how much fanfic there tends to be.

Or fan content in general, really.

And here's the kicker: The Sequels kinda don't get much exploring the actual world presented by the Sequels, even in fan content.

Which is telling for how much those fans care about the era the Sequels are set in: they appreciate the characters created, far more so than Disney/Lucasfilm seemed to, but in contexts that aren't the Sequels.

And if the timeframe you present isn't interesting, good luck forming an expanded universe off of it, which is by and large the absolute best way of generating a massive fanbase for, well, anything.

^I have a feeling once the kids who've grown up with the sequels become old enough to be vocal about them Disney will probably begin expanding the sequels more.

I feel like opinions and point of veiws can be extremely manipulated these days, I feel the children growing up watching the Sequel Trilogy will more often than not, witness the videos on Youtube about people tearing these movies apart. And it's a sad thing, these childrens' very childhood and veiw can be completely 1-80'd by a bad recommendation. So I think that unless most kids stop listening to the "adults" on Youtube, the very opinons the masses have today will only perpetuate. But I beleive that a few group of underdog kids, still love the world their in, and maybe, they'll grow up to love the Star Wars they have. And that may be, the Sequel Trilogy.

I hope it doesn't, but it probably will