I was that age when a new hope was first released in theaters and for the rest of my life I would watch that movie any chance I could. It was the greatest theatrical joy I could experience pretty far into adulthood for me.
When the phantom menace was released my friends and I couldn't wait to see it.... And we didn't really care for it that much and some of my friends thought it was absolutely terrible. But that's because it wasn't made for "us" and our age group. It was made for you and your's. Lucas new exactly what he wanted to do with episode one and he did it.
You should love that movie as much as you want and never apologize for it. Watch it every chance you get so you can remember what that six year old felt the first time they saw it.
My wife still laughs about the hot dog that she found in a skinny children's book. And she found it that way in the stacks.