How do you introduce Star Wars to friends and family?

Help Me.

I have a friend who wants to get into Star Wars. and get this, it's because of a stupid crush. 

But I don't care. I will make him genuinely love Star Wars the same way I do.  

This situation makes me think, How do I introduce Star Wars to my friends or family in a way that doesn't come off as me being an absolute nerd and stupidly obsessed? I am going to try to figure out how. In my last post I said I couldn't really find people to talk to about Star Wars and the thing is-

They didn't care.

But now there is someone who actually cares. 

Now their ability to care for a "random movie saga" really affects how someone can get them to like Star Wars but I am going to try to make people genuinely feel something for it.

!!! There are a lot of images* (10 in total)

Now for me, my friend really wants to learn more about Star Wars because someone he likes likes Star Wars. (The girl he likes is my friend so...)

For him he wants to learn about Star Wars.

Keyword=WANTS

So how do I introduce this vast world to him?

There are a million ways people have already figured out. 

We have the movies and shows in chronological order:

(I added the AOTC show in horrible "writing" in between the AOTC movie and the ROTS move)

I suggest going to the site which I linked in the description. They go into the pros and cons of watching the movies this way but to paraphrase this is the simplest and the most "seamless" way to watch the movies but the CGI and the quality gets a bit confusing.

Then there is the release order . Again it's the same website so you can visit it to see the pros and cons but just ton paraphrase (again), this order does not ruin the Darth Vader twist but it does have a lot of twists and jumps in the timeline. 

Then there is the Ernst Rister order which is basically the same as the machete order (created by Rod Hilton). The only difference in between Machete and Ernst Rister is Phantom Menace. Phantom Menace is not in the Machete order because ummm..

not many people like.

*But I <3 Phantom Menace

Then there is the "Flashback order" which is the Ernst Rister order but with the spin off movies. 

Also, just saying the Machete order, Ernst Rister order and the Flashback order as well as the Alternating order only include the movies. 

Now this is the Alternating order, ONLY for die-hard fans because this order is so messy and only for fans who understand why and what and when and how. 

Also it's like seeing 3 people's journey at the same time but like also knowing the outcome so it seems "poetic" in a sense.

Now this is the Obi-Wan Kenobi order which I just included because it seems interesting but it's definitely not something I would recommend for someone getting into Star Wars because they have NO IDEA who Obi-Wan is.

I got this whole list from Games Radar and it's a really cool article and website so check it out. So those are all the ways people can watch the Star Wars movies. But my friend is new and how does he watch it? I showed him the orders and asked him to choose but that's actually stupid on my part because he doesn't understand anything???

So I decided to see it from the POV of a new watcher.

The chronological order sets everything up but it just becomes so boring, no twists it's as if you can see everything coming, so maybe?

The Release order is quite odd and confusing and you have to remember a lot of things to make sense of anything, so no.

Ernst Rister/Machete is the way everyone recommends it, the order makes the movies a bit like a flashback after the "I am your father" reveal .

The flashback order and the Obi-Wan order is a big no because he won't understand anything at all. 

So to start off I am going to show him the movies in the Machete order because it seems like the best. 

*Thank you Rod Hilton*

But how do I get him into Star Wars Lore? 

The movies are fine and everything but the shows, the books, the comics?

And the big question for me is Legends or Cannon?

All the games and comics and books and everything related to Star Wars before 2014 is Legends. My friend's crush likes Legends more than Cannon (YES!!!)  so I will teach him Legends.  After the OT and PT, I won't show him the ST. After showing him the Machete order (w/o the ST) I am gonna go to the books. 

Those are the 28 books I am going to make him read first. 

*forgive me if I mis-counted*

*He does like books so if the person you want to introduce to Star Wars does not like books than comics are the way to go*

After these books/comics I will leave the Star Wars saga and lore to him. 

THANK YOU FOR READING!!!

Have a great day < 3333