Question of the Week: favorite STAR WARS?
It’s time for Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire enjoyable questions of enjoyable topics.
This week’s question: what is your favorite STAR WARS?
The inspiration for this question is the fact that May 4th has become “STAR WARS day” in a very tongue-in-cheek manner.
For myself, I would have to break it down into four categories because STAR WARS media covers so much different formats now.
For the favorite movie, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, with RETURN OF THE JEDI as the runner up.
For the favorite TV series, Season 2 of THE MANDALORIAN.
For my favorite book, THE THRAWN TRILOGY by Timothy Zahn, with REVENGE OF THE SITH by Matthew Stover and DARTH PLAGUEIS by James Luceno coming in as strong runners up. Seriously, if you’re at this website you probably enjoy reading books, so these five are definitely worth your time.
For my favorite video games, I would say TIE FIGHTER with KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC as a very close runner-up. But TIE FIGHTER was definitely my favorite. You play as an Imperial pilot, and the designers had the clever idea of making the Imperials sympathetic by having the player spend most of the missions hunting pirates, suppressing alien civil wars, and fighting renegade Imperial warlords who are trying to overthrow the Emperor. In the last two expansion packs for the game, the player is flying as Grand Admiral Thrawn’s elite pilot against the renegade Grand Admiral Zaarin, and finally defeating Zaarin after like forty missions was VERY satisfying.
So those are my favorite STAR WARS media items.
-JM
I cannot find a reason to argue against your choices. I have not seen any Star Wars TV series, but your other choices are mine as well. I have the Thrawn trilogy in the boxed set and got a PC joystick just for playing Tie Fighter again.
Empire strikes back is still the best film, I cannot get into the Disney cannon after they destroyed the expanded universe.
I watched the force awakens and that killed any intrest in watching Disney star wars for me.
Books is either heir to the empire trilogy or the Darth Bane trilogy. A well done film adaptation of the Darth Bane books would be the only thing that would make me want to watch any new films.
Video games would have to be kotor 1 & 2 with Jedi academy coming in 3rd, the original battlefront games were also great.
loved THE MANDALORIAN and The Book of Boba Fett especially when they had the characters from each others show guest starring in them. I saw somewhere they aren’t making another series but was talk about a tv movie to finish it off but now showing series 4 on IMDB thou no date.
I grew up with the original trilogy though some of the later films were good especially the FX effects thou Jar Jar Binks spoilt the 1st three movies. Maybe they should re-edit the character out since Lucas spent some money on adding new effects to the trilogy to bring it in line with the new movies.
Skeleton Crew made me thing of the movie Flight of the Navigator with star wars added to it so enjoyed that even thou mainly for kids and I have fond memories of Spaded Invaders with the side kick from the original Fall Guy tv show again made for kids thou adults can enjoy if they watch it tongue in cheek.