How Does Star Wars Look to the Prequel Generation?

Most of us who have been pontificating about the new Star Wars films are... well... old farts. We all are looking at them from the perspective of the original trilogy - and that's the only way we can, because after all we had 30 years after reading the ending to try to think up our own beginning. But it is worth examining the film from the point of view of a kid who started the trilogy with "The Phantom Menace" and is only now getting to "A New Hope" (or as most of us old farts think of it "Star Wars).

- after recognizing the Tantive IV corridore, "Hey, they didn't have all those people in there before. Where did they get them."
- later in that same scene, "Are the Republic troops clones too? They all look the same?" (Of course, by Republic troops he meant what we've always called Rebels. But being on an Alderaan ship... who is correct?)
- "Wow! Is the Death Star done already? I guess that's how you know that a long time has passed."
- "Look... Obi-Wan is pretending he doesn't know R2-D2."

And of course, I can't help wondering what the series will look like to someone after 7, 8, and 9. (Hee-hee!)