Garhdo Goes Geek

Hello my friends. Welcome back! EDIT: Updated to include latest MCU projects and reflect the details we know about  Avengers: Doomsday , as well as to create what I think is the best Watch Order to cover all recent entries in the most satisfying way. So after posting my last Watch Order for Star Trek I was debating what I could follow it up with. There were obviously a few options that I had in various stages, and several that I can use to link to episodes of my podcast, however the one that jumped out at me the most was the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU is something that people, including myself, have been debating the timeline of for a very long time. There have also been multiple debates about canonicity, especially of the tie-in media like television shows not produced by Marvel Studios. A lot of these discussions have been in many ways hindered by official licensed material by Marvel themselves, or comments made by filmmakers, which has only thrown more fuel on the alread...

Hello my friends. Welcome back to my blog.  Today I wanted to go back to what I said about finding the best Watch Order for things, by looking more at my prime example, which is Star Wars.  Now as I alluded to in the blog post where I first discussed finding the best Watch Orders for things, Star Wars is the perfect franchise to discuss in this context, as there are several different ways to approach it and the search for a perfect way to watch the films has been a source of much fan debate ever since the completion of the Prequel Trilogy nearly 20 years ago. The two most argued approaches were the chronological or episode order, which involved watching the Prequel Trilogy followed by the Original Trilogy, or the release order, the way most fans experienced them, which involved watching the Original Trilogy followed by the Prequels. Then the Machete Order was introduced and revolutionised the discussion, by suggesting watching Episodes 4, 5, followed by 2 and 3 as a large flas...