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I found this interesting article and am willing to try this out:

http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/#toc-introducing-machete-order

A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi

... and then a create a bonfire and burn a few copies of episodes I, II, and III

That did raise a lot of good points, I never thought of treating the prequels as flashbacks before.
Though when my godson's old enough it's still going to be IV, V, VI - and the old ones too!

I had seen it mentioned before that putting the prequels between V and VI is a good idea (Invelos forums...? This forum...?) But this guy makes an excellent case for doing so and especially for dropping I all together. I might do this next time as well. Or "next next" time, because I have seen the Blus for I-III already and still need to see those for IV-VI.

Hmmm...Interesting.  I hadn't heard of that order before.  There are decent points there.
I don't agree that Qui Gon is irrelevant though.  He's the one that picked up on things with Anakin to begin with...took him to the Jedi Council and Yoda.  Because of that, Obi Won was determined to train Anakin.  If it hadn't been for Qui Gon to begin with, Anakin wouldn't have been in the position to turn to the dark side later on.

I don't know, I always thought Qui Gonn was a bit daft. Everybody around him seemed to sense that there was something wrong with the boy, yet he insisted on training him. Basically it is Qui Gonn's fault that all the Jedis were killed later on

Quote from: Dragonfire on July 28, 2012, 07:42:51 PM
Hmmm...Interesting.  I hadn't heard of that order before.  There are decent points there.
I don't agree that Qui Gon is irrelevant though.  He's the one that picked up on things with Anakin to begin with...took him to the Jedi Council and Yoda.  Because of that, Obi Won was determined to train Anakin.  If it hadn't been for Qui Gon to begin with, Anakin wouldn't have been in the position to turn to the dark side later on.

In my opinion he is irrelevant. His existence even contradicts what we learned in the original trilogy. Without him (and Episode I) it is again Yoda, who trained Obi-wan. And Obi-wan, who took in Anakin thinking he can train him. With Episode I it looks like Obi-wan simply trained Anakin because he promised Qui-Gon, and not because he himself believes in Anakin.

Going to give this a try, I haven't watched my Blu's yet so this is a good opportunity.

I meant to report back a while ago about this.

If we're Facebook friends then you may have seen my statsusususus when I watched  IV, V, II, III, VI.

It did work really well in that order and the omission of ep I didn't detract at all.
I still had the same complaints about the crappyness of the acting and script of Clones and Sith, but overall it was good.