My ranking:
- SW, TESB & ROTJ (original theatricals and DSEs)
- TFA (theatrical, though Hal’s fanedit sounds great)
- R1 (theatrical)
- ROTS (Kerr Fanedit “Dark Force Rising”)
- TPM (Anti-cheese Fanedit)
- AOTC (Anti-cheese Fanedit)
So to explain my number 1 which is all three OT movies - I grew up with these as a little kid and find that I don’t have a critical view or thought on any of them, seeing them almost as a single body of work that I genuinely love and don’t look to be critical of or try to find fault with (that was until the time of the SEs anyway). I have never looked at one movie as being objectively better than the other nor will I ever as to me it is single story told over 3 movies and it is the story itself that I love as a whole, with the separate movies simply being different chapters / parts if you will with time having obviously passed in between.
The PT will always be on the bottom which makes the only real decision being as to how TFA and R1 ranks in the middle. With some awesome fanedits available I will never watch or list the original PTs ever again and the order of their ranking is really determined by the fanedit itself than the source material.
As to the Clone Wars series and movie, I’ve only ever incidentally seen a few episodes here and there and I’m not interested at all in any SW cartoons anyway or to date any EU.
.Val