The Skywalker saga is full, the Clone Wars animated sequence has come to an finish (form of), and top-of-the-line Star Wars tales ever advised is between seasons. However Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is again in theaters for its twenty fifth anniversary, and pulling in vital bucks on the field workplace, with viewers both reconsidering their authentic takes on the movie, or doubling down on what they thought of it the primary time. If revisiting Phantom provides you an itch to rewatch extra Star Wars, that ought to be pretty easy within the streaming age. Disney Plus has each film and present that’s at the moment canon (and some that aren’t).
However what’s one of the simplest ways to observe all of it? After George Lucas launched his prequel trilogy, Star Wars followers debated the order during which to devour the sequence. Now, with three trilogies, a pair spinoff films, some animated and live-action sequence, and at the least two spinoffs of spinoffs, the “correct” solution to watch the Star Wars saga is much more difficult. With all that in thoughts, listed here are a couple of totally different viewing orders to information you, whether or not you’re a longtime fan trying to revisit the movies and reveals or a newcomer in want of a Star Wars crash course.
Watching Star Wars in chronological order
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This viewing order doesn’t require a lot rationalization. That is how the occasions of the Star Wars universe occurred on the BBY (Earlier than the Battle of Yavin) / ABY (After the Battle of Yavin) timeline. It begins with the earliest occasions and strikes ahead in time from there. A few these might occur concurrently, however that’s not our fault.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Assault of the Clones
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated film)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated sequence)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Unhealthy Batch
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars Rebels animated sequence
Andor season 1
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The Mandalorian season 1
The Mandalorian season 2
The Ebook of Boba Fett
The Mandalorian season 3
Ahsoka season 1
Star Wars Resistance season 1
Star Wars: The Drive Awakens
Star Wars: The Final Jedi
Star Wars Resistance season 2
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Watching Star Wars in Skywalker Saga order
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Taking a little bit of inspiration from the internet-famous Ernst Rister order — initially taken from a now-deleted discussion board put up — this checklist makes use of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Again as setup for the prequel films and places extra give attention to Luke Skywalker. Viewing the films and reveals this manner makes positive that the place his household got here from.
This order diverges from the Skywalker story after each Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi, nevertheless it provides you a lot better context for Anakin’s heroics through the Clone Wars and units up his redemptive second of siding with Luke over Emperor Palpatine. As you get into the brand new trilogy, it continues to place Luke on the heart.
The trickiest a part of this order is the very squishy center part, which focuses on a couple of various things, together with Mandalore, a few Mandalorians, and Ahsoka, for a short while reasonably than Luke and the Skywalker household — even when they do crop up from time to time.
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Assault of the Clones
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated film)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated sequence)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Unhealthy Batch
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars Rebels animated sequence
Andor season 1
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The Mandalorian season 1
The Mandalorian season 2
The Ebook of Boba Fett
The Mandalorian season 3
Ahsoka season 1
Star Wars Resistance season 1
Star Wars: The Drive Awakens
Star Wars: The Final Jedi
Star Wars Resistance season 2
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Watching Star Wars in… galaxy-brain order
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We advocate this playlist for many who’ve seen all of Star Wars sufficient occasions that they wish to combine issues up with a really bizarre expertise. This doesn’t actually complement anyone character or storyline a lot because the sequence as a complete. This order ought to assist you catch all of the small references from one film or present and join them to the subsequent — although you’ll in all probability nonetheless miss a couple of.
Within the first few entries, the main focus is on the Rebel. Then, at its lowest second, we change sides to Anakin to see how he grew to become Darth Vader and the way the Empire gained management of the galaxy. After that, we see the autumn of the Empire in Return of the Jedi, and the aftermath in The Mandalorian and Ebook of Boba Fett.
Ahsoka additionally has a little bit of a wierd match on this order, in that she form of simply jumps out and in of the story after her introduction in Clone Wars — which, whereas narratively odd, does most intently match how she truly operates within the sequence.
The final bizarre piece of this order is repositioning the brand new trilogy with Han as a extra central determine. We see his household wrestle in The Drive Awakens, after which compensate for his backstory with Solo. This order turns Luke giving Han’s fortunate cube to Leia in The Final Jedi right into a barely extra necessary second, and makes it clear that that is Luke making an attempt to fix a number of the ache he dropped at Han’s household.
Be aware: If you wish to go all the best way on this order, we advocate watching A New Hope up till the planning assembly for the Battle of Yavin. At that time, swap to Rogue One, watch the entire thing, then watch Andor season 1, then return to the remainder of A New Hope. This fashion, Rogue One performs a bit of like a heroic flashback for the Rebel.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Andor season 1
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Assault of the Clones
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated film)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated sequence)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Unhealthy Batch
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The Mandalorian season 1
The Ebook of Boba Fett (first 4 episodes)
The Mandalorian season 2
The Ebook of Boba Fett (episodes 5, 6, and seven)
The Mandalorian season 3
Ahsoka season 1
Star Wars Resistance season 1
Star Wars: The Drive Awakens
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: The Final Jedi
Star Wars Resistance season 2
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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