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Last night, in a fit of productive insomnia, I wrote down everything I could think about with Star Wars, and then organized it into an objective and uncontroversial list of relative greatness. There's a very good chance my feelings on a lot of these rankings changes by the end of the day, but I think the wonderful thing about Star Wars is how interactive and modular the experience of enjoying Star Wars is. Star Wars is building blocks to be pulled apart and put back together; imagery to be repeated and recontextualized; quotations to be memorized and expounded. Like the characters of Star Wars working on their own starships, Star Wars fandom, at its best, is about getting inside the thing, breaking it apart, and making it your own-- preferably with a few good jokes and a near-death experience along the way.

  1. A New Hope
  2. Frank Oz as Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
  3. Luke throwing his lightsaber away in the climax of Return of the Jedi
  4. The moment where Leia says "I love you" and then Han says "I know."
  5. Star Wars Visions: Aau’s Song
  6. The duel between Luke and Vader in the bowels of Cloud City at the climax of The Empire Strikes Back
  7. Season 4 of Star Wars Rebels
  8. Finn and Poe's TIE Fighter escape scene in The Force Awakens
  9. "ONE WAY OUT"
  10. The shot of Mando and Baby Yoda regarding each other for the first time in The Mandalorian.
  11. The rancor fight in Return of the Jedi
  12. That first Phantom Menace trailer with the Gungans emerging from the mist.
  13. Star Wars Visions: Lop and Ocho
  14. Babu Frik
  15. "I made my mind a sunless place"
  16. Luke Skywalker’s yellow jacket in particular
  17. Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
  18. The podrace in Episode I.
  19. The opening battle on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back
  20. Maarva's Funeral
  21. The rest of The Empire Strikes Back
  22. Porgs
  23. The Aldhani heist
  24. Chopper pushing that droid out the airlock
  25. Ralph McQuarrie art in general
  26. Bill Burr in that Stormtrooper Base in Mando S2
  27. Star Wars Visions: In the Stars
  28. The train heist episode of The Book of Boba Fett
  29. Twilight of the Apprentice
  30. The rest of Return of the Jedi
  31. Star Wars Visions: The Spy Dancer
  32. The WBW episode of Ahsoka.
  33. The rest of Andor S1.
  34. Star Wars Visions: I Am Your Mother
  35. The Palpatine Episode of Bad Batch
  36. Star Tours
  37. Broom Boy as a final shot in the Star Wars saga
  38. N64 Rogue Squadron
  39. Star Wars Visions: Akakiri
  40. Ray Stevenson as Baylan Skoll
  41. The finale arc of Season 7 of The Clone Wars
  42. The Rest of The Last Jedi
  43. The Rest of Star Wars: Rebels
  44. The Dooku Episodes of Tales of the Jedi
  45. The Ahsoka episode of Mando S2
  46. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
  47. Star Wars Visions: Screecher’s Reach
  48. Once Ahsoka finally gets to Peridea
  49. When Old Boba Fett just wrecks a bunch of Stormtroopers with a gaffi stick
  50. The Rest of The Force Awakens
  51. Bounty Hunter episodes of The Clone Wars
  52. The Idea of Galactic Starcruiser
  53. Bad Batch's S1 Finale
  54. Ronto Wraps
  55. Jedi: Survivor
  56. Chilling for an hour in the Underwater Tube of Star Wars Episode I: Racer
  57. Star Wars Visions: The Duel
  58. Duel of the Fates
  59. Hera Syndulla
  60. Star Wars Squadrons
  61. The Rest of The Rise of Skywalker
    62.** Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures**
  62. Hondo Episodes of The Clone Wars
  63. When they play the Imperial march in a major key
  64. The Story Mode of Battlefront II
  65. Star Wars Visions: The Bandits of Golan
  66. The Not-Podrace Episode of Bad Batch
  67. Jedi: Fallen Order
  68. The Tale of the Faithful Wookiee
  69. The Ahsoka Episodes of Tales of the Jedi
  70. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  71. Getting called a 'nerf herder' in Oga's Cantina
  72. The Rest of Episode I: Racer
  73. The Star Wars Episode of The Muppet Show
  74. Ewoks: Caravan of Courage
  75. Cobb Vanth
  76. Young Jedi Adventures
  77. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
  78. Star Wars Visions Tatooine Rhapsody
  79. Playing Jedi Power Battles on Dreamcast as Plo Koon
  80. Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn
  81. The Mandalorian: S1
  82. The Rest of The Bad Batch
  83. Ahmed Best as Kelleran Bee
  84. Star Wars: Hyperspace Mountain
  85. Lego Star Wars: All-Stars
  86. Star Wars Visions: The Twins
  87. Any given Clone Episode of The Clone Wars
  88. Kids playing with lightsabers
  89. The Han Solo song from Star Wars Kinect
  90. Arcade Star Wars
  91. Lego Star Wars: Summer Vacation
  92. Boba Fett riding a rancor and fighting tanks
  93. Star Wars: Smuggler’s Run
  94. The Sound of Jango Fett’s Seismic Mines
  95. This blog!
  96. Star Wars Visions: T0-B1
  97. Rogue One
  98. Star Wars Visions: The Ninth Jedi
  99. The Jack Black/Lizzo Episode of Mando
  100. The Rest of Star Wars: Battlefront II
  101. The Rest of The Clone Wars
  102. Star Wars Visions: Journey to the Dark Head
  103. Jedi Temple Challenge
  104. **Star Wars Resistance
  105. Star Wars Visions: Sith
  106. The Mandalorian: S2
  107. The Rest of Ahsoka: S1
  108. Ewoks: Battle for Endor
  109. Star Wars Visions: The Elder
  110. The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special
  111. The Rest of The Book of Boba Fett
  112. Watching Indiana Jones instead of a Star Wars movie
  113. Star Wars Droids
  114. Star Wars Demolition
  115. Detective Obi-Wan on Kamino
  116. Masters of Täräs Käsi
  117. Grogu and the Dust Bunnies
  118. Lego Star Wars: Terrifying Tales
  119. The Mandalorian: S3
  120. Boss Nass
  121. Rose and Finn on Canto Bight
  122. The Rest of **The Phantom Menace
  123. Shadows of the Empire
  124. Obi-Wan Kenobi
  125. Star Wars Visions: The Pit
  126. The Rest of The Star Wars Holiday Special
  127. Ewoks (cartoon)
  128. The Rest ofv Attack of the Clones
  129. Revenge of the Sith