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