Making the Best of It

The discs in the Star Wars Blu-Ray collection are in numerical order, to me a simple and obvious way to do it and a suggestion of what order to watch them in. When the set came out, though, the sudden yet all too familiar bout of arm-flapping over the movies being a little different from expected seemed to dwell on the end of Return of the Jedi. Even after probably taking all of it much more seriously than I had to and not only "standing up to be counted" by buying the set but also buying a Blu-Ray player and new TV without quite waiting for or thinking of end-of-the-year sales, perhaps with the distinct trace of concern that "waiting too long" would let other people make an opinion for me that would turn waiting without warning into "clinging to the past" at last, I suppose I didn't want to watch through six movies in a row with the perpetual worry of a "final test" lurking at the end, so I reverted to "production order." As it turned out, I didn't have any shattering problems with that, but I did have three more known quantities left afterwards to watch with interest.
( The year after that... )