Also, the chronological order is the order George Lucas told us to watch the movies, and there is a reason for that.
Yeah, 'cause he’s a revisionist. Star Wars is the Tragedy of Darth Vader. Star Wars has always been the Tragedy of Darth Vader.
Yeah if you read the story conference for Splinter of the Mind’s eye you know it isn’t true.
But i think he started towards that line of thinking during Return of the Jedi, and if not then at least when he was being interviewed for from star wars to jedi. Then you go all the way up to the year he started writing the prequel and those Leonard Maltin interviews.
People take what he says and believe it when it would be easier to just admit that he Lucas constantly revises.
I don’t begrudge him for wanting the prequel to be different from the OT i can also be critical of it, too much focus on the setting and cgi and not enough on the characters and the plot. Also its not the same fun serial adventure style of the OT.