I’ve done this for my kids a few times (I have four kids; it’s… expensive) and Machete order is great because it totally preserves both the Empire surprise and fosters a bit of a surprise with the “Sith Lord” reveal in RotS while also making the Leia reveal something that doesn’t feel tacked on (throughout the entirety of RotS they speak with the assumption that Padme only has one baby in there–how a society with self-aware droids and interstellar travel can’t figure out that there’s two babies in one uterus is a conversation for another time). Plus it makes Luke a more complex character in Jedi when you return to him and he’s in black and choking out guards like you just watched his dad do.
machete order is best. fuck podracing.
I’ve done this for my kids a few times (I have four kids; it’s… expensive) and Machete order is great because it totally preserves both the Empire surprise and fosters a bit of a surprise with the “Sith Lord” reveal in RotS while also making the Leia reveal something that doesn’t feel tacked on (throughout the entirety of RotS they speak with the assumption that Padme only has one baby in there–how a society with self-aware droids and interstellar travel can’t figure out that there’s two babies in one uterus is a conversation for another time). Plus it makes Luke a more complex character in Jedi when you return to him and he’s in black and choking out guards like you just watched his dad do.