#im watching tcw rebels and resistance as well

[varuunsith]

hi! okay so i just finished ahsoka, LOVED it (mostly bc all of it was completely female led which you don’t see often these days). i loved ahsoka, sabine, shin, baylan and thrawn particularly. i’m a major wolfwren shipper lol.

okay but here’s the thing; watching ahsoka has made me want to consume more star wars media. before ahsoka, i only watched the sequels and the other movies before when i was like 12. soo i have no idea where to start.

i believe beginning with star wars the clone wars would make sense, but do i need to rewatch the prequel films in order to understand the clone wars (i basically remember nothing from the prequel movies) or can i jump right into it? and after that there’s all these disney plus shows, like the mandalorian which doesn’t seem connected to the movies as far as i can tell - and then there’s star wars rebels! idk, i guess i’m asking if you could give me any advice on where to start and follow on from there? pretty please???

sure!!! im just going to give you where I, personally, would advice on beginning. so I'd say to look around with some other blogs aswell!

disney+ has a chronological list set up if you want to watch everything as a marathon of some sorts. I'd say now is a good time for a marathon too – the next tv show is only coming out in 01/24/24, so you'll have plenty of time to catch up on everything.

there's also the infamous Machete Order, which takes off tv shows and focuses solely on the movies. I wouldn't personally go this route if you wanna really get into star wars as a whole, but if you just want to be up to date, it's a good place to start too – a bit confusing, maybe. They flip the order quite a bit to make it all flow better as a narrative; the prequels are, actually, just an elongated flashback.

Here's how it goes: a new hope, the empire strikes back, the phantom menace, attack of the clones, revenge of the sith, return of the jedi, the force awakens, the last jedi AND the rise of skywalker.

If you don't want to go Machete but per release, it's just the Original Trilogy, The Prequels, The Clone Wars cartoon and then The Sequels. It's very confusing though. I only do it like this if I'm watching it with someone I know has no knowledge whatsoever of the franchise, Vader's identity… all the nice little retcons disguised as plot twists.

Now, if the person does know about it all, which I think you do by the question, I'd say just go chronological order as it's put into the disney+ list. if you just wanna watch the movies first, it's prequels, original and then sequels. I'm gonna write the list with the tv shows sprinkled into it:

Phantom Menace, Attack of The Clones, The Clone Wars, Revenge of The Sith, The Bad Batch, Solo, Obi Wan Kenobi, Rebels, Andor, Rogue One, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Mandalorian s1-2, The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian s3, Ahsoka, Resistance, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi aaaaaand The Rise of Skywalker.

Oof! big chunk. Adventures of Young Jedis is a fun little cartoon that before everything, but it's very much targeted towards children beneath, say, 11 years old. But still fun to watch if you want to. Visions are independent and non-chronological episodes, so you don't need to include it if you don't want to. I recommend it tho. They're very well done. Tales of the Jedi are also non-chronological, but they follow and study characters such as Ahsoka, Dookan, Qui-Gonn. I highly recommend watching it after the prequels, but again, they are not necessary per se to understand the scope as a whole. Resistance is… Resistance. I didn't enjoy it as much i wished i could (i love the rebels, i love everything about them as a storyline), but they do provide some much needed information that bridges the original trilogy and the sequels.

Now. The Clone Wars. TCW has their fair amount of filler episodes, and it is a seven seasons big chunk. It also was not released with episodes as chronological, so you'd have episodes that released first but were placed before in the timeline. so no judgement if you decide to go Machete on it. Here's a list to the episodes that contains all the most important arcs in it:

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/07/the-essential-clone-wars-episodes-every-star-wars-fan-should-watch/

I think. I think that's it!! Hope this helps you anon. I'm always here if you want to!!

[readingwriter92]

Star Wars marathon

1/9 movies down

#im watching tcw rebels and resistance as well #tryna do it in chronological order #so had to start with phantom #i have to say i watched these movies when i was like ten and had no care or attention span so i have forgotten everything that happened #up until movies 7-8-9 so #i forgot what happened to qui-gon #:(( #i had been on imdb and it had seemed like he survived and im v dissapointed

[kingjasnah]

Star Wars Rebels?

ok ive only seen like half of the show but i already love everyone in it

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

hera. omg hands down hera i always do this i always single out the mom archetype and make them my fave but 100% hera.....esp in the first season where they made a point to be like no, HERA'S the one in the resistance the rest of u guys are just vibing. she and kanan do have a relationship of all time but she's the absolute best.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

oh.....ezra himself. he really grew on me i wasn't his biggest fan in the early eps in that i just didnt care abt him but i changed my tune real quick. i want the best for him so bad

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

i feel like there should be more zeb episodes?? ive seen a few but i feel like there should be more

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

hondo. no explanation necessary on this one. though i DID blow a gasket during the wedge episode just a constant stream of omg wedge omg its wedge wedge is here

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

maul maul maul worlds most pathetic man but im obsessed with him. other show but i swear the absolute thrill ride that was his tcw s7 bits. i want to watch ahsoka and others kick his ass for another 20 seasons

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

chopper but only cause i genuinely believe he would dismantle the plinko machine in pure rage and i want to see him do it

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

like i want to say maul but im going with thrawn cause well. i mean come on

#thank u!!!! #star wars rebels #asks #chopper is like. giving him arms was the best design choice #whenever hes holding two guns and barreling at whatever enemy theyre facing its SO entertaining

[zeawesomebirdie]

So I had to write up my series overview the other day, bc im gonna be pitching it to my regular beta tomorrow. Well, reading through it, its kind of crazy to think how many of these ideas actually function so well together? Sure its a canon rewrite, I cant expect much when the planned first part will be a canon retelling of the Clone Wars, but sometimes I forget how massive this story is. And I also tend to forget how excited I actually am about it, because this series idea has been in my head since New Years, I've been working on it for five months and I'm still no closer to finishing part one than I was a few months ago.

Idk ik im rambling and none of y'all know what im talking about, but I really do need to work on this series again. Unfortunately that means I need to stop fucking procrastinating and actually watch TCW (and Rebels,,,,, and Mandalorian,,,,,,,, and Resistance) plus play Jedi: Fallen Order and read the Thrawn series.

I think my plan will be to get all the canon watching out of the way by the end of the summer, y'know? My canon for the series is everything on disney+, Jedi: Fallen Order and the Thrawn series (and maybe a few books on Abeloth, assuming I can get them on Google play books). If I can get all the canon done by the end of August/early September, I can probably start draft one of part one in September, and I should be done with the obikin big bang fic and the kylux big bang fic (if I do it) by then. And hopefully I'll be almost done with the college!AU obikin fic too. (Rough timeline for that fic is to have it start posting around Yule, since its a Yule present to myself)

Thats a lot of writing lol, but its gonna be fun! So if you were wondering why I havent posted on Ao3 since Christmas Day, this is why. I've been busy freaking out about longfics lol

Anyway if you actually read this, thanks for listening to me ramble and keep being awesome ❤

#personal #my fics #this is the crazy ive been up to #i might try running the series past some if the folks in the obb gc #i need someone other than my beta to hold me to ot #idk if theyll be interested bc its only obikin for the first 6 or 7 parts #and then its a bunch of other ships #well i mean its still obikin but theyre force ghosts #idk well see #i might share with the gc