Full Series *Official* Clone Wars Continuity & Canon Thread

Yes, at comic con they said they will find a way to make it work. Maybe some of the books will take place between episodes or something.

The episode they screened had Nute being rescued from the clutches of the Jedi. Nothing about the other Separatists leaders or any mention of Munnilist though. The episode begins with a prisoner transfer. It's not clear how Nute was captured (but I'm guessing was in a previous episode because someone told me Padme captures him).

I like the idea of Padme capturing him, because there was still a lot of unresolved conflict between them I would like to see acknowledged.

 

And it shouldn't be that way. There's too much that is contradictory (a lot of which came from earlier years, before the prequels; ala a lot of what is in the Zahn Trilogy or any of the comic books or "dime novels" like The Glove of Darth Vader). That's why it needs to have someone come through with a red pen and slash out everything that IS NOT canon anymore, thus doing away with a lot of what is ridiculous. That's my main problem with Wookieepedia; it makes no differentiation between the movies and the EU.

 

I'm glad to hear that it's the new Clone War's goal not contradict the old Clone War cartoon.

 

Sorry if this has been covered anywhere else, but in the theforce.net's review of the novelization, it says:

"I'm going to split this out from the rest of the review, since it seems to have been decided on the movie end. All this should be pretty obvious to anyone who's been following the movie and the upcoming animated series, but the project as a whole is... messing with... the established Expanded Universe story of the Clone Wars"

Among the things that are messing up continuity are: (higlight to read): The book is set sometime in the first year of the war. Anakin is already a knight, and has a young Padawan. Jabba the Hutt has an infant son. A number of the clones featured in Revenge of the Sith show up. There are a number of Expanded Universe references within the book itself, but the word is that the movie and the series will rewrite the Clone Wars and prior material will have to work around it as best it can.

So, anyone know how this will be cleaned up? Is there any point in trying?

[EDIT: I just read The2ndQuest's excellent recap of what will be contradicted. But is it really that simple?]

 

Pretty much anything BEFORE the knighting (as seen in both the Animated Series and the novels) is pushed back to the first year or so of the Clone Wars. Anything else is after.

 

And Alpha is now renamed Rex.

Hehe, I think continuity freaks, which I certainly am, is bound for a really hard time in the next few months

 

Filoni said that Alpha is Rex, and that Lucas requested the name be changed from Alpha. With there already being Anakin and Ahsoka, Lucas didn't want another character whose name begins with the letter "A" associating with that group.

Such a direct assertion (that Rex is Alpha with a new name), leaves little room for ambiguity.

EDIT: Whoops, nm. I didn't catch the part where he said they weren't ruling out the possibility of introducing Alpha as a separate character later.

 

I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere, and since this is the continuity thread, I figure this to be the right place to ask, is the appearance of Grievous at the Battle of Hypori his canonical first appearance to the Jedi? There is nothing in the episode that explicitly makes me think that this would be their first time encountering him, and in fact the fear that is expressed by the amateurs among them tends to suggest that they may even have already heard some sort of rumblings. So, what is the ruling? And if this isn't the first appearance, do we know when Hypori takes place exactly and if the Clone Wars is going to manufacture a new first appearance for the General? Quite frankly I'd almost like them to fully explain the cyborg transformation and such, not that we haven't already seen it, but so that the non-EU indulgent will finally understand from where he came.

 

Here -> http://io9.com/5029457/star-wars-clone-wars-debuts-new-alien-friends-and-foes

 

Hmmm, I didn't catch that part.

 

I don't know if anyone has posted something like this but I just read part of a review that states that the movie and subsequent TV series will take place after chapter 21 of the original cartoon and before chapter 22. I'm pretty sure the reviewer meant to say that the chapters 21 and 22 thing applied only for the movie.

 

I'm aware of that. I was just pointing out the mistake the reviewer made by saying that the series takes place between chapters 21 and 22 of the micro-series.

 

It does take place inbetween Chapters 21 and 22 of the microseries. Curto didn't make a mistake here.

 

HAHA OH WOW

Now that I think of it, it IS possible.

 

Because after Nelvaan Anakin and Obi-Wan immediately go save the Chancellor, right? That means Anakin loses Ahsoka between his knighthood and Nelvaan.

 

I know he is going to have some sort of small role in the film since I've seen him in a couple scenes in the trailer, but will Plo Koon actually say something this movie?