User:CC7567/TCW



This is a general reference page where I post my aides in sorting through the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. Feel free to use it to your heart's content.

__ =Episode production= This is the order in which the episodes of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series were produced. As it can be seen, the episodes tend to jump around the timeline while being produced and are not commonly made in their chronological story arcs.

Notes and references
=Timeline issues= "As the series progresses, it will become evident that some of the stories are more in the format of an anthology, jumping about the timeline. This is especially true of the second season of Clone Wars episodes."

- "The Hidden Enemy" Episode Guide&mdash;no kidding.

The following is my attempt as a chronologist to organize all The Clone Wars episodes and related media where possible in a relative timeline so that I can claim credit for it if and when Lucasfilm Ltd. makes its own. Trust me, I'm only half joking. This analysis is meant to be used as a resource for sorting appearances throughout the series so that I might enable others to avoid the headaches that I get myself from trying to do so. I envision this as a method to ruling out the ways that the timeline cannot be organized. Please note that as this timeline is fan-made, it is nowhere near official and should therefore not be treated as such.

All episodes and related media are grouped by story arcs, which incorporate all directly confirmed chronology. Although I do not normally support speculation, some instances of it will be found throughout the following outline to help suggest more indicators to the chronology beyond those ones that are already confirmed. For a list of helpful and confirmed indicators to the timeline, see the bottom.

A more generally grouped listing of the battles and events can be found here.

Appearances
"Ahsoka is now older; there is an unspecified passage of time between this episode and her last appearance. With the start of this arc, which continues in 'Pursuit of Peace' and concludes in Season Two's 'Senate Murders,' the Clone Wars storyline advances to its furthest point in the timeline, and subsequent episodes should continue going forward without as much jumping back and forth."

- "Heroes on Both Sides" Episode Guide

The following is a suggested list for all appearances organized in the above order.

Notes on the muddle
"Chronologically, this episode precedes all the others that have been broadcast thus far. 'Cat and Mouse' is followed by Season One's 'The Hidden Enemy' and then an episode originally titled 'The New Padawan' that was re-edited into The Clone Wars feature film."

- "Cat and Mouse" Episode Guide. Hmm...


 * Primary indicators: whether Ahsoka Tano is actually there or not, how mature she is (as supplied by Filoni in The Official Episode Guide: Season 1), and how developed Rex's personality is. The time indicator with Tano has been made more distinguishable starting with Season Three's "Heroes on Both Sides," which features new character models for both her and other main characters, aging her and indicating a passage of time.
 * Other indicators: deaths of characters (e.g. Denal, Ponds, Onaconda Farr, Todo 360) and starships (Resolute)
 * The "Cat and Mouse" Episode Guide has claimed that all TCW episodes follow the feature film. However, this has yet to be more definitively solidified in an official source.
 * The television series has serious problems with The Clone Wars novel series&mdash;and earlier canon. The latter is to be expected, of course.
 * The television series has all but ignored Wild Space so far, as sources chronologically prior to the Loss of R2-D2 (namely, "Cat and Mouse") have featured the Resolute, overriding the cruiser's commission in Wild Space. This has thus been dropped as a chronology indicator. "Downfall of a Droid" has also conflicted with Wild Space (or vice versa, even) by ignoring the novel's gap between the Battle of Bothawui and the Mission to suspected Confederate space.
 * In Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth (part of the Gambit on Lanteeb arc), Anakin Skywalker mentions that the "last time" he engaged General Grievous was in the Battle of Bothawui. In addition, Obi-Wan Kenobi is portrayed to not yet be on the Jedi High Council in Gambit: Stealth, though it is unknown if other sources will respect this detail.
 * So far, it is supremely unclear whether Gambit on Lanteeb or Treaties on Taloraan comes first, as both deal with battles at Kothlis and neither make any sort of reference to the other. (It's almost certain that the battles weren't one and the same.) Basically, it is possible for either to come first at this point. This is also the case for Bane's Work for Sidious and Pirates and Bounty Hunters; the former story arc features the Separatists seizing Felucia, while the latter has a Republic base on the world. Thank you, Clone Wars.
 * Season Three has been the cause of most of the timeline reshuffling, as it is made up of a good deal of prequels and sequels to existing story lines. In particular, "Supply Lines" has introduced yet another chronology issue. While it places the Occupation of Ryloth arc just after Toydarian Neutrality, this conflicts with Covetous, as Wat Tambor buys his spy droid during the Loss of R2-D2 arc (in Discount) and later uses it during the Ryloth arc. Despite the clear disruption that the revision causes with Tambor's droid and Tano's rise in maturity throughout Season One, it is for now treated as canon until a better solution can be found.
 * Starting with "Heroes on Both Sides" (and continuing with "Pursuit of Peace" and "Senate Murders"), The Clone Wars "advances to its furthest point in the timeline," per the "Heroes on Both Sides" Episode Guide . This new, escalating phase of the war apparently continues to push forward "without as much jumping back and forth."