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A week or two ago my interest was grabbed by an alternative
order of watching the Star Wars films, called the “Machete Order”. Not being a
person who is content to let things remain theoretical, I suggested to Mrs G that we try it out over the Australia Day weekend. The results, I’m sorry to say, were
not good.
Mrs G and I are both Star Wars tragics – we both grew up with the original films and toys. However, where I could happily watch
any of the original trilogy any number of times, Mrs G can't, preferring to leave her childhood memories the way they are. She reckons she
got her money’s worth out of Episode I just by seeing “A long time ago
in a galaxy far, far away …” on a cinema screen again, but was so turned off by
the content of the film that she didn’t bother with the other prequels. I only
saw the others once they went to DVD, and only once each at that. However, I’m pretty familiar with the stories, having played through
the LEGO Star Wars “Complete Saga” console game. In short, we’re original trilogy
adherents with little or no time for the prequels.
