Thoughts After Watching the First 6 Star Wars Episodes For the First Time

How I managed to make it this far in life without seeing the Star Wars films, who knows. Especially considering how much I love fantasy/sci-fi as a genre on the whole. Not only that, but there were actually several key spoilers that I managed to somehow miss until I watched the movies.

Pretty Important Spoiler Things That I Didn't Know Until I Watched the Films with my Roommate:

1. The clones are actually clones?? 

        Okay, yes, I feel kind of silly for this one. It makes sense that they're actually clones. I just thought they were called that because they all wore identical armor and such, haha.

2. Related to #1: What Code 66 is. 

        Did not know about the whole 'activate brain chip thing in the clones, kill all the peeps, take over the universe' thing.

3. Darth Vader is Luke's Father

        Jk, jk, I definitely knew this, haha. Just thought it'd be funny.

4. Darth Vader gets a mini-redemption at the end

        Didn't know this until watching Episode 4 or 5 when I sad something related to me being so sad about how far Anakin has fallen and I said, "Darth Vader redemption arc when?" And then my roommate and Ben said something like, "I mean, he gets his 5 second redemption at the end of Episode 6." 🙃 Really wish I didn't know that when I watched episode 6, can't believe I got spoiled right before it, haha. It's okay though, it was still sweet.

Some other general thoughts:

It was really good! I do plan on watching episodes 7, 8, and 9 at some point. We'll see how far into the Star Wars universe I get into after that. Wouldn't surprise me if I end up watching the Clone Wars because 1. It's been highly highly recommended to me by two individuals and 2. It apparently builds up extremely well into Episode III, which is my favorite episode.

I love Episode III. It's so tragic, and it hit me in the feels. Also the lightsaber scenes were phenomenal. I love Anakin as a character, so Episode III was so sad:(:( Anakin appear as a force ghost at the end of Episode VI made me so happy. 

I think my rankings of the episodes would go something like this: 3, 6, 1, 5, 2, 4. Lots of hot takes in there, but that's how I feel right now without thinking about it all too much. I don't know why I'm such an episode 4 hater either.