cleolinda | The Twelve Threads of Sithmas

After not posting any #content for, uh, maybe two years, I suddenly got a wild hair on to rewatch the entire Star Wars series, since I hadn't seen the original trilogy in maybe fifteen years. I particularly wanted to watch them in story order--not Machete Order, mind you, although that is also a good idea--because I couldn't remember who knew what, when and why, and I particularly wanted to see Rogue One go straight into A New Hope.

Even when I haven't posted anywhere else, I've stayed active on Twitter. So I thought, let's livetweet it! That sounds fun! I'll put in a #sithmas tag so people can mute my blathering if they want! Two movies a day, that'll take four days! It... did not take four days. It took two weeks. Maybe three weeks? I'm still recovering from surgery and had to go more slowly than I expected. But I also kept pausing to discuss with people in my mentions, and ended up leaning into that more and more as we went on. So, within this ridiculous amount of tweeting, I also got information about the old EU books and the new canon books; I discuss what I saw on some of the DVD extras, what I remember of the OT from my childhood, Anakin/Padme Discourse, literary trope digressions, more and more callbacks/parallels as the movies progressed, and my love for the Galaxy of Heroes mobile game (HAVE U SEEN MY MURDER BEARS). So here are all the threads, each reformatted on single pages by the grace of Thread Reader, with all my typos and mistakes and enthusiasm. Enjoy.

Phantom Menace
I do not own a copy of this movie in disc format and decided to take that as a sign from the universe. In my defense, it's not in the Machete Order, either.

Attack of the Clones
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976810965877645312.html