It's only a revelation if you insist on defying the officially sanctioned and prescribed Episodic Order, which, again, is the only order that matters... and it ceased to be meaningful narratively in 1999.
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It's only a revelation if you insist on defying the officially sanctioned and prescribed Episodic Order, which, again, is the only order that matters... and it ceased to be meaningful narratively in 1999.
No, it really didn't, since my daughters do not know the reveal. In fact, I've heard others describe a more beneficial experience of ANH, ESB, ROTS and then ROTJ.
So, I will disagree on this for a number of reasons, the least of which being that its art and can be approached in a variety of different ways and still retain meaning.
Short, sweet and to the point. Bravo.
And yet still oh so inaccurate.
People are allowed to watch what they want in any order they want
Especially when the official order is narratively unsatisfying.
How many daughters do you have?
Not when there's an official sequence of events.
You can't/shouldn't read/watch Harry Potter out of order, and you can't/shouldn't watch the Skywalker Saga non-episodically.
Since when is straightforward storytelling "narratively unsatisfying"?
It isn't straight forward because it was written out of order.
Things were put into the PT because they had to exist in the OT. It is retroactive writing
Star Wars was produced fragmentarily like a serial, yes, but it still has a straightforward narrative with a defined beginning that is meant to organically and sequentially build to a defined end.
It still makes sense if you watch 4-6 then 1-3
"Only in your mind".
The OT was written without the PT in mind, so everything you need to know is explained to you. It is a self contained story.
Not even remotely.
Starting with any Saga film that isn't The Phantom Menace means you're intentionally experiencing only half the story.
Lucas may have produced Star Wars in serialized out-of-sequence fragments, but it was never intended to be actively and intentionally experienced in that fashion.
No, not at all.
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How can you intend a story to be viewed in a certain order when it was not released in that order? So, according to that idea, everyone who watched it before 2005 was doing it "wrong?" Because, that is the logical end to that argument.
Would you argue the same for Prometheus in to Alien?
Because, in the case of Star Wars, circumstances beyond Lucas' control didn't allow for the creation of the story in its intended sequential order.
Yes.
Unless Ridley Scott has explicitly said that Prometheus and Alien: Covenant SHOULDN'T be watched in their proper chronological order, Yes.
The Star Wars (Skywalker) Saga is and always was intended to be a sequential narrative with a defined beginning (TPM), a defined middle (RotJ), and (eventually) a defined end.
I completely disagree, and that's fine. I will go with the sequence that I have heard is most narratively satisfying. My choice, which doesn't make it wrong.
The narrative experience changes when the episodes are watched episodically. The old traditional method is based on the story being about Luke Skywalker with the PT providing a backstory for Vader. However, if one takes it episodically, the narrative is about Anakin Skywalker, his origins, rise, fall, darkest moments, and then redemption through his son. Followed by his aftermath and legacy in the Sequel Trilogy (so far).
