It looks a bit confusing, but this is actually the perfected version of the machete order.
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Your kid needs linear storytelling, not a giant detour in the middle of the movie that introduces new characters. But it doesn’t work quite as well in execution. This was one of the first version to subvert traditional viewing order, but it isn’t as successful as it would like to be in crafting the most engaging narrative possible. Finish up with Force Awakens.Ĭhanging the viewing order so the prequels are more like flashbacks is a compelling narrative choice…in theory. Then watch Return of the Jedi, which shows his ultimate redemption. It asks you to watch A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back and then watch the prequels to see just how he arrived at this point. It revolves around the idea of the movie as Anakin’s story. This one is more commonly known as the Machete Order and is the consensus pick amongst die-hard S tar Wars fans. But by starting your kid off with the prequels, you’re changing the very nature of the story, not to mention ruining the original trilogy’s big reveal. If you consider all the Star Wars movies one coherent story, this order posits, then why not show them in the intended order? After all, the episodes are given numbers and so it makes sense to show them in numerical order. Chronological Order (In the Star Wars Universe) Why is Kylo Ren so obsessed with this charred helmet? Who is this Luke Skywalker guy everyone won’t shut up about? It’s such an homage to A New Hope that it demands an awareness of it for it to make sense. Starting with The Force Awakens is a weird choice because it relies so much on the previous movies to really make much sense. So it asks you to start with The Force Awakens and then go back show them episodes 1-6 in numerical order. The concept of this order is to get your kid interested in the franchise by showing them the newest movie first and working back to answer their subsequent questions. And to eliminate them all together would be to ignore a large part of the lore - and several rad moments (Darth Maul! Double Lightsabers!) Plus, you’d be missing out on a lot of kid-approved moments (such as the pod race in Phantom Menace).
Yet, while the prequels are definitely inferior, they’re still worth viewing.
Why, the thinking goes, make your kid watch three movies that seem more interested in interplanetary trade regulations than space battles and lightsaber duels? Why subject them to Anakin explaining his disdain of sand to Padme? Why make them watch the cool, mysterious Jedis be retroactively turned into a bunch of unfeeling morons? People who like this order have one unifying belief: the prequels are garbage and should be avoided at all costs.
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