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zombie84
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Which order to watch the films?? - Dilemma!!!
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15-Oct-2010, 7:27 PM

On the contrary, I've thought about it so much that I even wrote an article about it.

http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/structuringtheprequels.html

LOL, I like "yeah, you probably just don't understand it" response.

"I have watched 1-2-3-4-5-6, 4-5-6-1-2-3, and 4-5-1-2-3-6 more than once each, and in I have found that 4-5-1-2-3-6 is the best experience. "

Well there you go. It's ultimately preference. Personally, my preference is 4-5-6, and then maybe 3 if I am in the mood. Based on "logic and experience", as you put it, there is no order that includes the prequels that is fully satisfying simply because they are poor films and if you like 4 and 5, which we both agree one should start with, it is very likely that you will dislike some or all of the prequel films.

But in terms of construction, the films have a steady rise linearly as the OT and then PT. The special effects, scale of the films, stylization, etc. has a specific context to era in which they were made, and mixing and cutting back and forth between them doesn't work. That's a main reason why 1-2-3-4-5-6 falls on its ass, there's too huge a disconnect, the only way the prequels make sense as is a seperate trilogy seen afterwards. The disconnect becomes magnified when you have ESB going to Jar Jar Binks and then a film made in 2005 having a sequel to it made in 1983 whose narrative throughline has been dropped since four whole films earlier.

Sorry, not buying it. It may work for you, but not for me, and it's by no means inherantly superior as I mentioned, there are serious, systemic flaws in this scheme.