Star Wars is better in production order too, though I seem to recall fans coming up with alternative orderings that were neither production nor chronological.
Star Wars is better in production order too, though I seem to recall fans coming up with alternative orderings that were neither production nor chronological.
Machete order, as a sibling notes.
If you watch all six in chronological order, then the big reveals around Luke & Leia's parentage -- not to mention even the fact that they are siblings -- are ruined. (And you also get some super icky feelings in IV and V when Luke pines after Leia before knowing she's his sister.)
If you watch them in production order, it ends up unsatisfying because it's not a well-structured story from IV->V->VI->I->II->III. VI gives you the big payoff of resolving all the conflict, but then you go back to flashbacks: first you have Anakin's childhood in I, which doesn't really teach us anything all that interesting, and then you see II and III which do tell us how Anakin/Vader became the way he was. But then III ends on a big downer and you feel like you want to watch the original trilogy (or at least parts of it) again.
And frankly I just don't care about the final sequel trilogy. I grew up reading all the Star Wars expanded universe novels, and wiping away all that continuity for three so-so movies that feel so small story-wise is the most unsatisfying thing of all to me. Not to mention that trilogy is just super bleak: all the work of the original trilogy is undone, and the Skywalker family essentially ends, with its members more or less sad, broken, and unfulfilled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Prisoner_episodes
I watched it in KTEH order on Saturday (or Sunday?) Science Fiction night.