This is pretty cool. It actually makes me want to watch the episodes all over again, in this order. Hell, even episodes 2 and 3. I'll have to try it some day with any future children I might have (although I'll definitely test it first).
I would add that the backstory of III (turning to the dark side to try to cheat death) enhances Anakin's final conversation in VI as being truly repentant ("But you'll die!" "Nothing can stop that now."). The order presented makes sense, even if there are still a few oddities (and even if I was young enough when ep. I came out to enjoy it at the time and am not convinced that some of the things other people dislike aren't actually cool -- queen switch is less annoying because it confuses the viewer and more because the other characters, except possibly Qui Gon ["The queen doesn't need to know. *smirk*"], don't seem to get the obvious, and the four-or-five-fold battle near the end, but then I always watched Star Wars for the battle sequences -- but as the article says, you can always have fun with the rest of the related movies afterward); the story development makes sense this way, and that's really one of the two things Star Wars really has going for it (the other being action sequences regardless of plausibility, obviously) in the long run... I mean, I've said before it's not every show or movie where the climactic conflict is over the hero's soul; Star Wars may have corny theology but at least it aspires to a place among those rare few, and the machete order strikes me as bringing out this conflict particularly well.
Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI would add that the backstory of III (turning to the dark side to try to cheat death) enhances Anakin's final conversation in VI as being truly repentant ("But you'll die!" "Nothing can stop that now."). The order presented makes sense, even if there are still a few oddities (and even if I was young enough when ep. I came out to enjoy it at the time and am not convinced that some of the things other people dislike aren't actually cool -- queen switch is less annoying because it confuses the viewer and more because the other characters, except possibly Qui Gon ["The queen doesn't need to know. *smirk*"], don't seem to get the obvious, and the four-or-five-fold battle near the end, but then I always watched Star Wars for the battle sequences -- but as the article says, you can always have fun with the rest of the related movies afterward); the story development makes sense this way, and that's really one of the two things Star Wars really has going for it (the other being action sequences regardless of plausibility, obviously) in the long run... I mean, I've said before it's not every show or movie where the climactic conflict is over the hero's soul; Star Wars may have corny theology but at least it aspires to a place among those rare few, and the machete order strikes me as bringing out this conflict particularly well.
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