Out of all the Star Wars Canon you've seen, what is your favorite and why? No spoilers on the new movie, please.

Mine:

Episode 6

Episode 5

Episode 4

SW Rebels

Episode 3

Episode 7

SW Clone Wars

Episode 2

Episode 1

Thank God I've never seen the Holiday Special. I liked Return of the Jedi better than Empire Strikes Back because the moment in which Vader saves his son is so awesome, and because the space battle is great. In every other area ESB is better, but Vader's 4th quarter turn to the light always gets me. Rebels has great character development and really makes you feel like the villain is unbeatable. I also think episode 3 is good, especially Obi Wan.

I actually like ALL of the above canon, just in different levels and different ways. Even lowly episode 1 has Darth Maul and a great lightsaber battle. Funny thing is, my wife and kids probably put SW Rebels in first place and Episode 1 as second.

VII I think is my favourite now. Unlike ESB or RotJ there isn't scenes that bored me.

I'm a big fan of the Clone Wars movie and the entire series, especially season six.

Episode III I enjoyed for seeing the sheer brilliance that is Palpatine's take over of the Republic.

VII I think is my favourite now. Unlike ESB or RotJ there isn't scenes that bored me.

I'm a big fan of the Clone Wars movie and the entire series, especially season six.

Episode III I enjoyed for seeing the sheer brilliance that is Palpatine's take over of the Republic.

You know, that's a good point.

5 cause the Empire actually 'wins' for once.

Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Battle for Endor

Caravan of Courage

Holiday Special (Harvey Korman is hilarious)

Episode 4 (it is just so classic and the Battle of Yavin is the best!)

Episode 5 (Hoth and Boba Fett as if I even have to say more)

Episode 7 (it really captured the Star Wars feel)

Clone Wars (had some great stories notably anything with Domino Squad, Pong Krell, and the final scene of season 5 nearly brought tears to my eyes)

Episode 3 Great battles and Anakin's transformation was great)

Episode 2 No plot whatsoever, but it did have some great scenes Obi wan Vs Jango and Geonosis

Episode 1 Two names: Young Anakin and Jar Jar

Episode 6 horrid writing, two much story, over the top, ewoks, incompetent stormtroopers, useless Han (even Harrison Ford thought so), Boba Fett is killed by accident, Executor is destroyed by Arvel Allah Akbar Cryned, etc.

Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Battle for Endor

Caravan of Courage

Holiday Special (Harvey Korman is hilarious)

I'd rank caravan of courage above battle for endor, the opening scene is amazing.

After a whole film about children trying to rescue their parents they open the next film by killing the parents and one of the children.

George Lucas must be a bit twisted to think "children loved the ewoks in ROTJ so let's make a children's ewok movie where we see the ewoks get butchered".

Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Battle for Endor

Caravan of Courage

Holiday Special (Harvey Korman is hilarious)

I'd rank caravan of courage above battle for endor, the opening scene is amazing.

After a whole film about children trying to rescue their parents they open the next film by killing the parents and one of the children.

George Lucas must be a bit twisted to think "children loved the ewoks in ROTJ so let's make a children's ewok movie where we see the ewoks get butchered".

And yes, the opening to BfE was amazingly dark. The movies did give you a better sense of the insane courage and physical durability he Ewoks had. Made me feel a lot better about the ending of Jedi. The Ewoks were more than just silly teddy bears.

What is Caravan of Courage??

What is Caravan of Courage??

One of the Ewok movies. None of which are canon.

What is Caravan of Courage??

One of the Ewok movies. None of which are canon.

Says you.

Episode V

Episode IV

Episode III

Clone Wars Cartoons(the original one)

Star Wars Rebels

Star Wars The Clone Wars(its really tight between this one and rebels)

Episode VI

Episode VII

Episode II

Episode I

V has a ton of content and i like how it thrills me all the time

IV is a classic, it has some deus ex machina moments i dont like though

III is very action packed, has some cheesy dialogue but all in all is a really entertaining movie, though you need to watch clone wars cartoon to fully get it

Original clone wars cartoon is simply amazin, Heck the prequels would have been better of if episode II was episode I, this cartoon was episode II and III was III

Rebels simply feels like imperial assault coming to live television jajaja(though ezras slingshot was so stupid it cant be higher up the table)

The clone wars has some really really brilliant sagas like the one with darth maul and the mandalorians which is simply chilling(heck even better than some of the movies was that particular arc), but some episodes are rather formulaic and others are simply terrible

Episode VII IMHO suffers from an overload of deus ex machina convinience moments, and Kylo "Rat Kid" Ren is the most repelently annoying characther i've seen in the entire saga(yes more than jar jar, since im a firm advocate to the darth jar jar theory). But it does bring some good characters and action scenes, even though not as grandiouse as the battle of Hoth, the death star run, or the plethora of battles present in episode III(my favourite one is Kashyyk) so at least its a good if somewhat bland begining for a new age

Episode II has too much padding, the love story is ridiculous, jango gets killed to easily and we dont see as much clones attacking as i would have liked

Episode I is episode I, but i do like the setting it generates though, I actually liked all the imperial senate thingy

Aside from the Ewoks (which I loved when I was younger) Return of the Jedi is my favourite. It was the first I saw, I think it has the best Luke (Mark Hamill was really inexperienced in A New Hope, and it really shows), it has a genuine sense of threat at points, and it has the best lightsaber fight of the entire series. It has the best space battle of the series. I do think Empire is good, but it just doesn't work as well on it's own (which makes sense, as it is the bridging film), and truthfully, not a great deal actually happens. They run away from a base (and the whole tow cable ploy... is also bizarre and a bit dumb, even if you don't knotice it at the time), go to speak to some people in seperate places, and then you finally get to the point of the film, the confrontation between Luke and Vader (which is great... Luke's rat faced "NOOO!" aside... watch it, he pulls a face like a rat). Yes, it has lots of good padding in it all, but looking back at it, the film is actually quite sparse.

A New Hope... is shaky. It wins off tha fact that it isn't trying to be anything it isn't, and not having too much padding once the action swings into things (getting the characters together takes a little while, but feels natural. It has the weakest acting (and probably script), but doesn't put characters through too many complicated emotional scenes where this would be a major glaring flaw.

VII... enjoyable, but JJ JJ'ed up the series. Nonsensical elements to the background, with no care for the impact it has on the setting as a place to explore and make more films, books, tv series or games in. However, feels Star Warsy, and adds some genuinely moving forward moments. Wouldn't be surprised if it ends up the "Star Trek: Insurrection" of the series, ie, relatively positively received at the time, but gradually its mediocrity and flaws became what everyone remembered, so people think it was a bad film (rather than just an ok one).

III: Irritating mix of cool stuff and a bunch of "almost, but just ballsing it up in execution" moments. The fall of Anakin... which had been undermined by the Tusken Raider thing in the previous film, but they almost recovered in this film, just to do the famous nose dive into evil. Cool Space Battle... and then throw in nonsensical elements, like missiles dropping droids on ships, rather than just blowing them up. Fun interchanges between characters, or single character quips... and then clunky or cheesy dialogue at important moments of the film.

II: A few cool moments ruined by terrible script and painful scenes. Also, the ruining of the Jedi as something interesting. Well, confirming the nonsense we got in the previous film and adding more to it.

I: Generally can be safely ignored from the franchise, because it adds little positive to the series. Clashes badly in a number of places with the established background, ruins the character of Darth Vader while also treating him nonsesically (why does he have to be a 10 year old? Make him a 19 year old brash hotshot pilot like his son in the later films and it would have made more sense).

I haven't watched enough Rebels or Clone Wars to judge. What I have seen of Rebels is a bit... well odd. Sometimes they do really clever things with the background, and then at other points they do stupid stuff because it is a children's cartoon.

hard to make a list that includes all the canon novels and comics so I'll break it into separate lists.

On Screen:

V

III

The Clone Wars

VI

VII

Rebels

IV

II

I

Novels:

Lost Stars

Battlefront Twilight Company

A New Dawn

Dark Disciple

Moving Target

Lords of the Sith

Smuggler's Run

Tarkin

Weapon of a Jedi

Aftermath

Heir to the Jedi

Weapon of a Jedi

Comics:

Kanan

Lando

Shattered Empire

Chewbacca

Vader

Star Wars

Leia

Short Stories:

Face of Evil

The Crimson Corsair and the lost treasure of Count Dooku

High Noon on Jakku

All Creatures Great and Small

The Perfect Weapon

And then there's all the short stories from Star Wars Insider (which are also canon) that I can't remember right now.

What is Caravan of Courage??

One of the Ewok movies. None of which are canon.

How can live action star wars movies written by George Lucas not be considered Canon?

What is Caravan of Courage??

One of the Ewok movies. None of which are canon.

How can live action star wars movies written by George Lucas not be considered Canon?

Ask Disney.

When they reset the canon it was the 6 theatrical movies, the Clone Wars movie/TV show and everything forward. This eliminates the Ewok movies. Which is too bad as they weren't hurting anything if they remained and I know I enjoyed them.

Ah, so you're basing you canon on the whims of the corporate overlords.

No thanks. I'll just stick with Lucas.

I just love to read Star Wars fans discussing Star Wars

I just choose my own canon tbh.

Been doing it since the sh%tstorm that was the Yuuzhan Vong war.

What is Caravan of Courage??

One of the Ewok movies. None of which are canon.

How can live action star wars movies written by George Lucas not be considered Canon?

Ask Disney.

When they reset the canon it was the 6 theatrical movies, the Clone Wars movie/TV show and everything forward. This eliminates the Ewok movies. Which is too bad as they weren't hurting anything if they remained and I know I enjoyed them.

The Ewok movies were theatrical in Europe.

Ah, so you're basing you canon on the whims of the corporate overlords.

What is Caravan of Courage??

One of the Ewok movies. None of which are canon.

How can live action star wars movies written by George Lucas not be considered Canon?

Ask Disney.

When they reset the canon it was the 6 theatrical movies, the Clone Wars movie/TV show and everything forward. This eliminates the Ewok movies. Which is too bad as they weren't hurting anything if they remained and I know I enjoyed them.

The Ewok movies were theatrical in Europe.

You know what I meant, The six main movies and Clone Wars forward is what was done at the reset of the so called previous canon. The now Legends line.

Episode VII IMHO suffers from an overload of deus ex machina convinience moments, and Kylo "Rat Kid" Ren is the most repelently annoying characther i've seen in the entire saga(yes more than jar jar, since im a firm advocate to the darth jar jar theory). But it does bring some good characters and action scenes, even though not as grandiouse as the battle of Hoth, the death star run, or the plethora of battles present in episode III(my favourite one is Kashyyk) so at least its a good if somewhat bland begining for a new age

I have to disagree with you on the Kylo Ren point. Although I had already seen a jpeg of one of the lego sets from next year, and knew what Ren would look like, I was still surprised at the unmasking. As the movie continued though, I think the character was perfect; he really seemed like the torn kid even in the scenes before the unmasking. As another believer in the Darth Jar Jar theory, all it amounts o me is that Jar Jar could have been a great character, but Lucas's fear prevented that, and that makes me hate Jar Jar even more!

As for the deus ex machina moments, I do agree that there were a lot of them, but what no one seem to be notice is that none of them are new, JJ just took the from the previous movies, making them seem even more over the top.

Return of the Jedi

Empire Strikes Back

The Force Awakens

SW Rebels

--------------- The above 4 are all really close to being tied.

The Phantom Menace

A New Hope

Revenge of the Sith

Attack of the Clones

The Clone Wars

Holiday Special - I don't know if it counts as canon though, I think it was kinda wiped clean.

I put ROTJ first because that was my favorite as a child so it has a lot of nostalgia for me, as well as having provided the basis for a lot of awesome ships, especially the B-Wing which is my fav. Rebels is also up there because I love having a weekly show to watch and it's surprisingly good! I get SOOO excited every Wednesday evening!

Phantom Menace is pretty high on my list because dude.... the whole first act was simply amazing. Liam Neeson was masterful as a Jedi! The subtle things he was doing too were great - like talking to the Gungan Boss he was using mind tricks, but being very subtle about it - heck I didn't even notice it until my 5th viewing. It was a great way to demonstrate that the Jedi wouldn't straight up abuse their power, and that he was going to just use it enough to help them move along without being detained. Really very good. Also this was the first time we say force powers that had only appeared in video games and books... like force speed, force push, etc. (You could argue that force push happened in the original trilogy, but it was quite different from Obi Wan and Qui-Gon knocking down droids - that was done very well).

I hated the Clone Wars - mostly because it was out of order and made me confused and angry. I'll have to rewatch it again someday in the proper order and see if that helps.

What is Caravan of Courage??

One of the Ewok movies. None of which are canon.

How can live action star wars movies written by George Lucas not be considered Canon?

Ask Disney.

When they reset the canon it was the 6 theatrical movies, the Clone Wars movie/TV show and everything forward. This eliminates the Ewok movies. Which is too bad as they weren't hurting anything if they remained and I know I enjoyed them.

The Ewok movies were theatrical in Europe.

You know what I meant, The six main movies and Clone Wars forward is what was done at the reset of the so called previous canon. The now Legends line.

No, I dont know what you meant. When you say "Six main movies" are you including the prequels to bring it up to nine? What the hell is "Clone Wars"? Was this whole thing decided by blind monkeys throwing darts? Maybe you can explain yourself.