I saw AoD when I was 14/15, cementing how I viewed Ash. The Ash in the first one is not the Ash I watched numerous times before seeing number one and two. Does that make #1 a ‘bad’ movie? No. The order I watched them in almost ruined the first one for me. That, and the tree rape caught me off guard.
I’ll give her another go now that a lot of time has passed.