Risa

I've spent most of the ~45 minutes since writing that last comment reading the machete order creator's update post and the comments underneath it. And I just really wanted to highlight one particularly excellent comment from a user going by "amusingmurff".

I didn't know the "right" way was to skip TPM, and while I find a lot of your points valid for skipping it, I find it to be helpful to demonstrate how the Jedi Order failed. There are references to the Jedi prohibition against strong emotion in II and III, but it is in terms of how Anakin is failing to be a "proper" Jedi by his inability to let go of his emotions and attachments. Ep I shows that perhaps it is the Jedi Council, who only say "don't feel anything, that way leads to the Dark Side!" that are mistaken. Is Anakin's inability to let go of emotion/attachment at the core of his Fall? Yeah. But Luke succeeds in VI because he also fails to let go of attachment and sentiment - Vader is only redeemed and defeats Palapatine because Luke can't let go of the affection he has for a family tie and the idea that his father still has some good. [...] I find it a more compelling story if you see that it's not really a tale of the beleaguered good guys (Jedi) who are outwitted by the evil, all powerful Emperor, but that they contributed to their own downfall and doomed the rest of the galaxy. That way, the OT heroes have to not only do away with the Empire, but probably do away with a lot of the forms of the old order, including the Jedi Code as it was

There's some other good discussion in those comments, including a reply to that one, and I definitely recommend reading through it if this line of discussion is interesting to you.