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These are some of the coolest 'Star Wars' posters ever made. Your guide to the Star Wars Expanded Universe · Primer. Primer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This installment: The Star Wars Expanded Universe. Fair warning: This piece reveals several plot points from the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Prerequisites It’s a weird time to be a Star Wars fan, which is quite a statement to make, because it is always a weird time to be a Star Wars fan. There is no series that has self-evolved as fully and as shamelessly as those three original films. George Lucas created a fascinating, allegorical trilogy and then rapidly undermined it with special editions altering what came before and splashy CGI sequels.

In 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm, adding another wrench to the works. As a result, the company made a swift and decisive move that guts what Star Wars meant for many fans: It removed the entirety of the Expanded Universe from canon. “We don’t reboot. Absolutely No Machete Juggling » The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order. Brace your­selves, what follows is an amaz­ingly long blog post about the best order in which to watch Star Wars. First, let me say this: for people that couldn't care less about the prequel trilogy, I suggest Harmy's De­spe­cial­ized Edi­tions.

They are 720p videos that are the result of "Harmy" from The Orig­i­nal Trilogy forums painstak­ingly re­con­struct­ing the the­atri­cal re­leases of all three films uti­liz­ing a wide variety of video sources as well as custom mattes. Down­load­ing, burning, la­bel­ing, and print­ing cases for these films is one of the neck­beardi­est things I've done (aside from writing this blog post), and I'm ex­tremely glad I did it. If the "proper order" for Star Wars for you is the orig­i­nal trilogy and nothing else, stop reading now and find the De­spe­cial­ized Edi­tions. So, with that out of the way, what can you do if you do wish to involve the prequel trilogy? There are two obvious options for watch­ing the Star Wars saga. What Gets Removed? A New Hope in tweets. Star Wars Origins: How did George Lucas create Star Wars? Every Revision To The Star Wars Movies Since 1977.

If you have been awake at all lately, you probably have not missed the new box release of the Star Wars series on Blu-ray, right? Well, if you have, then you must have either been insanely busy or you just don’t give a rat’s ass. It’s pretty much everywhere these days. If it’s not on an ad in a paper, you can bet it’s on a huge billboard somewhere announcing the release.

I can’t wait to check out just what changes they have made. If I am not entirely incorrect, there is a website somewhere that lists all the changes that have been done in this edition of the series. There have actually been a slew of new releases over the years, and each one has its own revision of the content. Geektwins has put together an epic list of all (yes, apparently these are ALL of them) the revisions that have ever been made to the Star Wars series. Andrew-DeGraff-Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.jpeg 2,000×2,413 pixels.