The best order to watch all of Star Wars, based on your needs

The Skywalker saga is full, the Clone Wars animated sequence has come to an finish (kind of), and one of the best Star Wars tales ever informed is between seasons. However Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is again in theaters for its twenty fifth anniversary, and pulling in significant bucks at the box office, 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 offers 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 presently canon (and some that aren’t).

However what’s the best manner to watch it all? 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 motion pictures, some animated and live-action sequence, and a minimum of two spinoffs of spinoffs, the “proper” manner to watch the Star Wars saga is much more sophisticated. With all that in thoughts, listed below are a couple of completely different viewing orders to information you, whether or not you’re a longtime fan trying to revisit the movies and exhibits or a newcomer in want of a Star Wars crash course.

Watching Star Wars in chronological order

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 pair of these could occur concurrently, however that’s not our fault.

1. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
2. Star Wars: Assault of the Clones
3. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated film)
4. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated sequence)
5. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
6. Star Wars: The Dangerous Batch
7. Solo: A Star Wars Story
8. Obi-Wan Kenobi
9. Star Wars Rebels animated sequence
10. Andor season 1
11. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
12. Star Wars: A New Hope
13. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again
14. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
15. The Mandalorian season 1
16. The Mandalorian season 2
17. The Ebook of Boba Fett
18. The Mandalorian season 3
19. Ahsoka season 1
20. Star Wars Resistance season 1
21. Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens
22. Star Wars: The Final Jedi
23. Star Wars Resistance season 2
24. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Watching Star Wars in Skywalker Saga order

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Taking a bit of inspiration from the internet-famous Ernst Rister order — initially taken from a now-deleted discussion board submit — this listing makes use of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Again as setup for the prequel motion pictures and places extra focus on Luke Skywalker. Viewing the films and exhibits this manner makes positive that you understand 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, however it offers you significantly 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 put Luke on the middle.

The trickiest half of this order is the very squishy center part, which focuses on a couple of various things, together with Mandalore, a pair of Mandalorians, and Ahsoka, for a short time quite than Luke and the Skywalker household — even when they do crop up from time to time.

1. Star Wars: A New Hope
2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again
3. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
4. Star Wars: Assault of the Clones
5. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated film)
6. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated sequence)
7. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
8. Star Wars: The Dangerous Batch
9. Obi-Wan Kenobi
10. Solo: A Star Wars Story
11. Star Wars Rebels animated sequence
12. Andor season 1
13. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
14. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
15. The Mandalorian season 1
16. The Mandalorian season 2
17. The Ebook of Boba Fett
18. The Mandalorian season 3
19. Ahsoka season 1
20. Star Wars Resistance season 1
21. Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens
22. Star Wars: The Final Jedi
23. Star Wars Resistance season 2
24. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Watching Star Wars in… galaxy-brain order

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We suggest this playlist for many who’ve seen all of Star Wars sufficient instances that they need to combine issues up with a really bizarre expertise. This doesn’t actually complement anybody character or storyline a lot because the sequence as a complete. This order ought to allow you to catch all the small references from one film or present and join them to the subsequent — although you’ll most likely nonetheless miss a couple of.

Within the first few entries, the main target is on the Rebel. Then, at its lowest second, we change sides to Anakin to see how he turned 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 bit of an odd match on this order, in that she kind 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 battle in The Pressure Awakens, after which catch up on 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 trying to mend some of the ache he introduced to Han’s household.

Notice: In order for you to go all the best way on this order, we suggest 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 remaining of A New Hope. This fashion, Rogue One performs a bit like a heroic flashback for the Rebel.

1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2. Andor season 1
3. Star Wars: A New Hope
4. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again
5. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
6. Star Wars: Assault of the Clones
7. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated film)
8. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated sequence)
9. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
10. Star Wars: The Dangerous Batch
11. Obi-Wan Kenobi
12. Star Wars Rebels
13. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
14. The Mandalorian season 1
15. The Ebook of Boba Fett (first 4 episodes)
16. The Mandalorian season 2
17. The Ebook of Boba Fett (episodes 5, 6, and seven)
18. The Mandalorian season 3
19. Ahsoka season 1
20. Star Wars Resistance season 1
21. Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens
22. Solo: A Star Wars Story
23. Star Wars: The Final Jedi
24. Star Wars Resistance season 2
25. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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