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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8075825" data-attributes="member: 6779196">[USER=6803643]@Marandahir[/USER] [spoiler]You misunderstand me. I’m not saying I isn’t important to the saga, I’m saying it isn’t important to Luke’s story. And it isn’t. Neither is IX, or Rogue One, or Solo, or the Clone Wars Series... There is a lot more to the Star Wars saga than just Luke’s story, and I is certainly important to the saga as a whole. But it has no relevance to the story of Luke Skywalker, and the point of Machete order is to refocus the films and reframe them around Luke’s story, as the origin trilogy did. Any editor will tell you, figure out what your story is about, and cut everything that isn’t essential to that story. Machete order is about Luke, and it cuts everything in Star Wars that isn’t essential to his story. If I and II could be cut from it too, they would, but the change to Anakin’s force ghost’s appearance means you at least need III, and III doesn’t work without the context of II. But as part of Luke’s story, II and III work without the context of I, so I gets cut. Now, if your goal isn’t to experience a tightly-focused story that revolves around the character of Luke Skywalker, machete order probably isn’t for you. If you want to dive deeply into the Star Wars universe and view any and all events connected to the eponymous wars, then yeah, of course you aren’t going to skip I. But such a deep-dive would be narratively unfocused, tonally inconsistent, overly long; all the criticisms that started being raised when the prequels came out and changed the scope of Star Wars from the story of a farm boy who learned he had a pivotal part to play in the ongoing Star Wars to the story of that kid and his father. Machete order aims to bring back the tight narrative focus that was lost with the prequels by taking a machete to the thicker of Star Wars content and cutting it down to just what is needed to tell a single, cohesive story about Luke. [/spoiler]</blockquote>

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