Ranking Star Wars

It gets a bit tricky once you get into books, videogames, etc. so, for the sake of simplicity, I decided to stick with movies and TV....

1. The Empire Strikes Back

2. Star Wars (aka A New Hope... I'm OG so it's just Star Wars to me)

3. The Force Awakens

These are all very close--- Empire has always been my favorite and the original is the original and, in some ways, The Force Awakens is actually superior to both… however, it  still stands on the shoulders of its predecessors.

4. Rogue One

5. Return of the Jedi (original edition)

6. Revenge of the Sith

7. Return of the Jedi (special edition)

 Rogue One is definitely the boldest thing that has ever been attempted with a major Star Wars theatrical release so I gotta  give it props over the weakest of the originals. Sith is the only one of the prequels worthy of standing among the originals and it is, by far, the best of that lot.  It beats out the special edition of Jedi because of the CG musical number in Jabba’s palace…. Just awful….

8. Genndy Tartakovsky’s  Clone Wars shorts.

9. Rebels

10. Clone Wars

11. The Boba Fett animated sequence from the Star Wars Holiday Special

12. Episode II (its title isn’t even worthy of being spoken)

13. Clone Wars (theatrical release)

14. Droids Cartoon

15. Mark Hammill hosting the Muppet Show

16. Episode I

17. Ewoks Cartoon

18. Those Made for TV Ewok Movies

19. The rest of the Star Wars Holiday Special