Ha, you guys are too much.
Same thing happened with Attack of the Clones. So many people were "avoiding the craze" that the lines weren't long at all.
I showed up an hour early for Episode III last night and... was the first person in line.
I thought it was a good movie. Really dark. I rank the first 3 up there with the last 3. I don't see how the original series can be so sacred and the new series can be so awful.