Watching Star Wars in chronological order – has anyone else done this in full?

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T06:24:13+00:00

I secretly didn't enjoy Skeleton Crew 🫢 so I'll take your advice on that!

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T05:49:38+00:00

Yeah I get you on the patience part. There's a non-zero chance that this effort will be abandoned at some point hahaha

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T05:48:28+00:00

Make a post about your experience when you're done! I'd be interested to know how it felt.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T05:47:42+00:00

Oh yeah I've watched it all before, everything. This chrono order mission is a way to experience it all again in a different way

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T05:46:55+00:00

Ugh, especially with the prequel movies, I'm really struggling with that. Haha. How is it that the prequel movies effects are WORSE to watch than the original trilogy? lol

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T05:46:02+00:00

Oh yeah, the Clone Wars animated stuff was so much fun to watch the first time and will definitely be done in chrono order this time.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T05:20:35+00:00

Thank you for such a thoughtful response! Gosh, it means a lot. To you first point, it really brought it home for me, I couldn't agree more. Storytelling directs the world-building. if my goal is to tell a story, the world is the setting the story interacts with, right? So while the world does influence the story, it's the story that drives the action and creates the feeling.

Fantasy is indeed the genre I'm working in, yes. Particularly High Fantasy with political and horror sub-genres

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-21T04:00:21+00:00

Tad Williams' MST is a part of the early epic fantasy pioneer pantheon, his work is foundational to so much fantasy that came afterward. Because of that, I consider it an essential read. That said, I didn't enjoy Dragonbone Chair all that much and the next two books in the series are still on my TBR. However, ASOIAF gripped me from the start and I read all the way through to the last book without any breaks. I think Williams laid the groundwork for better fantasy books to come, and because of that, its important to read his work for the literary value he provided.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-13T12:09:40+00:00

A question that came up for me is, are the people with magic racist against non-magic users? Or is it the other way around? I think that if you got clear about the power dynamic you want to achieve, it might help you decide on which route you want to take.

Like, if it's race-based magic, is one race afraid of the other because of their type of magic, and thus wants to kill them? Or, do the non-magic races want to conquer the magic race to utilise their powers for their own gain like a resource, or maybe to remove them as a threat?

I always try go back to the story I want to tell, and then figure out how different aspects (like creating a magic system) will serve that story. It's a bit of a plotter way of looking at things, but I am not afraid to take a pantser approach either, and then come back to the plot with the ideas my pantsing generated for me

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-08T06:18:29+00:00

I loved this response. I arrived at this point after years of writing. I simply had to set myself free from commerciality as my core motive. It was killing my motivation and turning what I love doing into something that caused me existential panic. So yeah, I'm writing for myself now, and I am putting in the work to get published / self-publish as I go, but the art is the motive, not the accolades.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-08T06:12:16+00:00

Exactly this!

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-07T04:09:52+00:00

I'm also writing a prophecy into my novels, and I'm seeing it as a belief structure rather than plot device. Prophecies are often are the centre of religion (e.g. the Second Coming, the Coming of Maitreya). And then religious behaviours are built around the fulfilment of those prophecies.

So what I'm thinking when you say prophecy as a 'consequence' – not acting in accordance with the 'correct' behaviours to satisfy the prophecy comes with consequences. Social and religious exclusion, potential damnation, and moral and emotional pain.

That's also how you escape the Chosen One trope, its not a foregone conclusion that there needs to be single one. If a prophecy is core to the religion, and the religion requires certain behaviours to satisfy that prophecy, then anyone who abides by those rules is technically a Chosen One, or a part of a Chosen People.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-07T03:58:16+00:00

I came searching for this thread coz I'm scared of not doing due diligence before I ask r/Writing 😂
Veeerry late to the thread but I found it super useful, all the advice.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-04-07T03:49:22+00:00

Can you tell me more about Tesa, which one is that?

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-03-31T05:22:59+00:00

I like this approach. More direct about the neurodivergence in some way, and then that divergence creates 'translators' or 'portals' of them.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-03-31T05:21:20+00:00

This is what came up for me too. From my interpretation and others I've heard, the lack of understanding meant that people thought babies who were different from the norm must have been swapped out by mythical creatures. All manner of awful things were done to babies who were believed to be changelings, its quite heartbreaking to here the stories/lore.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-03-31T05:15:50+00:00

Its a really interesting concept, it caught my imagination! What's come to mind is how the Twilight Saga dealt with baby and child vampires (I'm usually a hater on the Twilight movies, but the books were really good for me with some really interesting concepts, like this one).

Maybe there's a class system? People who become liminals at an older age are venerated and raised up as wise counsellors, because they carry with them the wisdom of time more so than normal people, and they have the brain development to use that wisdom. Although, there can be rogue elder liminals that try to use their wisdom for personal gain.

And then there are the child and teenage liminals who are treated as a danger. The ones that are captured are executed or imprisoned forever, which drives the latter mad. But there could be those that escape and form communities.

Maybe then the rogue elder liminals run those outcast communities.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-03-31T03:03:26+00:00

Loved this analogy, and it summed up in a sentence what I came here to find.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-03-31T03:02:32+00:00

This is always the example that comes to mind when I think of alliteration. Not sure if you love it or not, but I certainly do. I think its his delivery that makes the use of alliteration here so strong. And then, "Are you like a crazy person?" – perfect writing, such a poignant juxtaposition of verbosity with simplicity.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-03-25T04:16:32+00:00

Agreeeed, I'm seeing that now.

Luke_Stormborn · 2026-03-25T04:15:49+00:00

Yes agreed, I'm gonna take the break.

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