Don’t get hung up on Greedo shooting first, 'Maclunkey' or the Ewok celebration’s Yub-Nubectomy - there exists a far more problematic change that derails this as the definitive sequence. Lucas spent decades tinkering with his films, so much so that the current ‘original’ trilogy is a far cry from the films that graced our cinema screens in the late seventies and early eighties. The problem is that this is not the original Star Wars experience. This is how the first generations of Star Wars fans experienced the series and it certainly didn’t do us any harm. The twists and turns are kept intact, there’s no attempt to retcon the saga into an ill-fitting Anakin story and we begin the whole endeavour on a high. Starting with the 1977 original, we then move through Empire and Jedi, before experiencing the prequels in all their frustrating glory and picking up the sequel trilogy thereafter.
The purist’s approach, production order maintains the historic authenticity of watching the franchise unfold as first it did.
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