On 3/8/2012 5:53 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 08.03.2012 06:37, schrieb Patrick Elliott:
>
>>> Thanks for sharing. Having never seen Eposides I-III, and with only
>>> little memory of IV-VI remaining (I'm not even sure whether I watched
>>> all of those three), I just recently thought it was about time I watched
>>> them all. I guess I'll give the "Machete Order" a shot when I do.
>>
>> Which isn't much help if you are dealing with the "extended-extended"
>> version, which covers "The Clone Wars" cartoon series, which is sort of,
>> "Ok, how exactly did Anakin go that wrong, and why didn't the Jedi
>> notice?". Then, if you want to know who Sideous/Palpatine really is, you
>> need to read the book Plegues, where its reveals that this name, which
>> he drops in the third movie, was in fact Palpatine's own master, and why
>> it is that there seemed to be a bit more than two sith around
>> (especially in the cartoon).
>>
>> And, well.. Past that, it might help to read Bane (I haven't yet), to
>> understand how the sith went from having their own batch of star
>> systems, and an empire, to "there are only ever two, master and
>> apprentice, no more". Not to mention quite a few "old republic" books,
>> that cover various things from an even longer time ago, and hint at how
>> the sith "become" sith, instead of just corrupted Jedi.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Um... I don't intend to write a thesis about it - I just want to watch
> (and hopefully enjoy) the movies :-P
lol Yeah, well.

Its still interesting to read some bits, just to get an idea how some 
holes are filled in, like Palpatine's past. Stuff following the end of 
the last movie.. is a mess, since a chunk of the story is in the games 
that got made, and I don't think they ever made books to cover those 
events, even though they are sometimes mentioned in the books. Kind of 
like Revan. It doesn't cover the game's part, just what happened after 
he got back (and the Jedi decided that his ideas about why and how he 
was saved from the dark where "too dangerous", and, "not trustworthy"). 
The order definitely had a major blind spot, in some respects.

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