navigating star wars is tricky and complex but here's everything (mostly) in order based off of the timeline. some of the medias overlap.
Prequel Trilogy Era (Galactic Republic)
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: The Clone Wars [the movie]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Szn. 1 - Szn. 7 Ep. 9)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Szn. 7 Ep. 10 - Szn. 7 Ep. 12) [you don't have to watch ROTS before you watch these last episodes ^^ it's just what fits better on the timeline]
transition era from prequel trilogy era to original trilogy era (galactic empire/rebellion)
Tales of the Jedi [takes place in different times throughout the prequel era (everything above) so the order of watching this show doesn't matter but it's best to watch it after the clone wars most likely]
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars: Rebels
Andor [season 1 takes place same time as rebels season 1, 5 BBY]
Original Trilogy Era (Galactic Empire/Rebellion)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
transition era from original trilogy era to sequel trilogy era (new republic)
The Mandalorian (Szn. 1 - Szn. 2)
The Book of Boba Fett (Szn. 1)
Ahsoka [takes place after mando s2 and close proximity to mando s3]
The Mandalorian (Szn. 3)
Sequel Trilogy (New Republic)
Star Wars: Resistance [overlaps with the sequel movies so i suggest you watch the movies first before starting this]
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
Extra, but not necessary
Star Wars Visions [no specific timeline. highly recommend]
Star Wars: Clone Wars [the 2d cartoon show, not the 3d. not necessary to watch. takes place during clone wars, obvs]
Star Wars: Droids [takes place after the bad batch and before the solo movie]
The Star Wars Holiday Special [takes place after a new hope and before empire strikes back]
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure [takes place after empire strikes back and before return of the jedi]
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor [takes place after empire strikes back and before return of the jedi]
The Ewoks [takes place after empire strikes back and before return of the jedi]
Important things to note:
"BBY" stands for "before battle of yavin". "ABY" stands for "after battle of yavin". like B.C. and A.D., it's how the star wars universe counts their years for some reason. 0 BBY takes place during Episode IV: A New Hope, where the battle of yavin literally happened.
prequel trilogy was widely hated when it came out, mostly by toxic dudebros. the fandom HAS healed, and now it's regarded well and favorited often. sequel trilogy is widely hated and continues that way, for some reason. original trilogy is loved.
there ARE inconsistencies within the media. some media will contradict others and it's just something you gotta accept.
legends is a non-canon thing. idk anything about it but if you hear anything about legends, it's not canon to the storyline, though it's useful to pull resources and concepts from.
some people may or may not switch up the order of things based off of the years going off of BBY and ABY, and that's fine. this is just the list i use that i think is easiest to follow.
following up on the point above ^^ some of the clone wars episodes are out of order, timeline wise, but that doesn’t affect watching experience or anything. if you want to find the episodes in timeline order, i’m sure a bit of research will get you a list easily.
I've had a bit of downtime lately so I watched, on a bunch of consecutive evenings, Star Wars Episodes I-VIII. I left out Ep. IX because that's the only one I don't have the DVD of, because after seeing it in theaters I refused to spend any more money on that travesty of a finale.
And you know what? I've decided that the Skywalker Saga works pretty okay as an octet, thank you very much, with a sequel duology instead of a sequel trilogy. Certainly Ep. VIII leaves a lot of things unresolved, but hey, Kylo Ren and Finn each cathartically managed to get rid of their oppressors (Snoke and Phasma respectively); Luke reached a satisfying end to his arc (I'm still very much in the Luke's Character Development Is Perfectly Consistent Through Ep. VIII camp); the rebellion is properly reborn and ready to fight; Kylo and Rey have formed a sort of close yin/yang relationship that maybe actually somehow represents a "balance to the Force", whatever that ever was supposed to mean. Maybe -- and especially since the first two trilogies formed such a neat arc ending in unqualified triumph for the good side only for us to see that the clouds soon gathered again -- maybe the most mature and sensible way to the end the saga is inconclusively in terms of whether light or dark wins the conflict, because that's the way our actual universe really works. (Oh, and Princess Leia just dies offscreen soon after the ending of Ep. VIII, in her Carrie Fisher persona. It kind of says so in the credits!)
This is imperfect, but it has to be better than acknowledging the irredeemably-written story handed to us for the finale episode. I will stubbornly refuse to accept it as canon. I hereby decree that The Last Jedi is The Last Film in the main series.
Welcome to this week's top ten movies of all time (this week) as decided by @zaftikat, @sapphire-mess, and a random movie generator.
On our podcast, Unsound Theories, we set out with the ambitious goal of ranking the top 10 movies of all time based on a random sampling of movies. It stands to reason that if a random sampling of people and a consistent list of movies can be used to determine the top 100 films of all time, then a random sampling of movies and a consistent list of people could do the same. We are those people. Here are our top 10 movies of all time (this week):
#10: Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
T8: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
T8: Iron Man (2008)
#7: Space Jam (2021)
#6: Dredd (2012)
#5: Peter Pan (1953)
T3: Space Jam (1996)
T3: Persepolis (2007)
#2: The Land Before Time (1988)
#1: Nosferatu (1922)
Table below the cut
(Image ID): A ranked list from 1 to 10 of the above-mentioned films in a spreadsheet. There are 7 columns labelled: Film, Kat Ranking, Kira Ranking, Kat Points, Kira Points, Average, Official Rank. Raw Data:
Nosferatu (1922) 2 1 9 10 9.5 1
The Land Before Time (1988) 3 3 8 8 8 2
Persepolis (2007) 1 7 10 4 7 3
Space Jam (1996) 6 2 5 9 7 3
Peter Pan (1953) 5 4 6 7 6.5 5
Dredd (2012) 4 6 7 5 6 6
Space Jam (2021) 7 5 4 6 5 7
Iron Man (2008) 8 9 3 2 2.5 8
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) 9 8 2 3 2.5 8
Star Wars Ep IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) 10 10 1 1 1 10
and when sabine starts using the force, proving everyone wrong and further showing how anyone can be a force wielder cause it is everywhere and not just with a few families bla bla bla (i'm looking at you ep ix)
BEAUTIFUL, POETICAL, VERY STAR WARS MESSAGE ABOUT HOPE
I haven't seen TROS since it came out, but I remember feeling very unmoved throughout the whole thing. Like it was incredibly dumb, but not in a rage inducing way like TLJ was. I remember thinking " this is just a poor man's Dark Empire". And Dark Empire was considered one of the more offensive parts of the Legends continuity. If I were to watch it again it would just be for a laugh.
I know tlj is the movie everyone gets really mad about for a hundred different reasons but I found it extremely unenjoyable and not even in an entertaining or interesting way. like it just really wasn’t that good. ep ix is also bad and indefensible but, in the true spirit of being a star wars fan, I found the pretty lights and set pieces fun and some of the jokes were good, so it’s ranked higher in my brain
Ok but maybe Star Wars Ep IX was actually good cuz it brought Star wars back to its EU roots of being cheesy shitty (affectionate) sci-fi? Not enough ppl are talking about this