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Post #1029625

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Hal 9000
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Info Wanted: Call for experts! Machete marathon... Q2/HAL? TPM?
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6-Jan-2017, 7:45 AM

I’ve used the order of IV, V, I, II, III, VI with a newcomer before and I thought it worked very well.
It’s not machete order, and I called it ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ order, because it’s how he would have wanted it. (And learning Luke and Leia’s relationship in Ep3 is more dramatic than in ROTJ.)
You’re right that Q2’s edits are designed to function as precursors to watching the OT without giving away the two big reveals. My edit of Ep1 also happens to remove Jabba’s little cameo, preserving that reveal as well. (I don’t remember whether Q2’s did as well.)

Option B preserves Ben Kenobi’s lies and is a great way to experience the OT and PT from Luke’s POV and frame the PT within the OT. You don’t have to begin or end (if stopping at ROTJ, anyway, which isn’t really a problem now) with a terrible movie. Putting the prequels between V and VI lets VI benefit from the backdrop of the prequels, being the only OT film that arguably does so. And going forward, you get to go from ROTJ into TFA. You do take a swan dive in terms of quality jumping from ESB to Ep1.