Full Series The Clone Wars Chronological Order (TCW Episodes & Viewing Orders)

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Oh, no. Ok, get ready, cause this is gonna be heavy. Defenders of Peace is in the Hostage Crisis newsreel, which means Jedi Crash and DOP are before HC. Storm over Ryloth is in the JC newsreel, so the Ryloth trilogy has to be before JC, DOP, and HC. Rookies is in the SOR newsreel, so Rookies has to take place before the Ryloth trilogy, JC, DOP, and HC. Finally, Cargo of Doom is in the Rookies newsreel, which means Holocron Heist and Cargo of Doom have to be before Rookies, the Ryloth trilogy, Jedi Crash, Defenders of Peace, and Hostage Crisis.

So, basically this means that the webcomics, which suggest that HH and COD are after HC, contradict the newsreel order. But, looking at the production order, Cargo of Doom would have been that early in the order of episodes anyway.

Thoughts? Is there any room for error in the webcomics that lets HC be this far after HH and COD?

 

When you're trying to work out the episode order, does it really matter if shots from one episode are in the newsreel sequence in another? Does that actually affect the order of the episodes? Are the newsreels supposed to be in-universe sequences that people in the SW galaxy could actually watch, or are they just for the benefit of the OOU viewer like the introductory text of the films? The intention could be both, yet even if they are in-universe, surely a GFFA viewer couldn't actually watch those episode clips in a newsreel because there was no one there filming it.

If the whole of Star Wars happened a long time ago then you could say that the stories and their visual representations were written and compiled much later. It would therefore be possible to take elements of one event and put it in the story (like in the newsreel) or another event, even if they haven't happened yet. From the perspective of the viewer on Earth, everything in SW has already happened so it wouldn't matter what bits are in which episode if it's purely illustrative of characters or general action, only if it actually did give the incorrect impression that one event occurred before or after another. Does the footage do that, or is it just all mixed up like in a trailer where it doesn't matter?

 

Well, we kind of came up with it as a theory as to how one might be able to construct the actual chronological order of the episodes. It's never been confirmed by anyone with the show, but it's probably the best we've got right now, as the production order doesn't really match up and we can tell that the airing order is certainly not chronological.

 

After watching Children of the Force, it certainly seems like this trilogy of episodes is supposed to be after Hostage Crisis, which means I have no idea what's going on with the newsreel order. It might be truly dead...

 

"Well, we kind of came up with it as a theory as to how one might be able to construct the actual chronological order of the episodes. "

I hate to tell you, but the newsreels really have no bearing on the chronological placement of the episode. They're often made of available footage unless the content specifically calls for new scenes to be created.

The chronological roll out of episodes largely follows broadcast order, with a few exceptions. When future episodes really start moving about the timeline, we'll make an official order available on starwars.com.

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Except for episodes like "Downfall of a droid" and "Dual of the droids" that are obviously before "Malevolence" and "Rookies" in the timeline(Grievous being at large vs. having been beaten twice already)and "Hostage Crisis" being after the "Holocron trilogy", the broadcast order definitely is the most sensible.

 

Right. But I'm not even sure that Hostage Crisis is before the "holocron trilogy." But that's probably the only episode that might not be in the airing order besides the ones you mentioned.

 

Regardless of what Lucasfilm says, we'll still use the newsreel as a guideline in determining the order, especially the average viewer who don't come to these boards to find these things out.

Will the dvd box set have these episodes in chronological order?

 

This is either gnna be really awesome to really crazy. Pablo, are they planning to go back in the timeline or forward? Is there a specific story reason they are doing this or were they just bored doing it like it is?

Personally I think it would be really weird if they jumped ahead too far. There's plenty of time to get to all the stuff right before episode 3 anyway.

 

"Regardless of what Lucasfilm says, we'll still use the newsreel as a guideline in determining the order, especially the average viewer who don't come to these boards to find these things out."

Dude, the average viewer will assume the episodes are shown in chronological order, no way in hell "normal" people will study the "newsreel" to triangulate a possible timeline(if the idea even occurs to them). Doesn?t invalidate your version of the timeline though, but that is way to much work for most people to bother.

 

Well, after seeing the hidden enemy and the movie that came out way before the show, they'll realize that the stories bounce around between AOTC and ROTS, I would think. I did. I mean, some of the scenes in the newsreels that depict what happened before are pretty obvious, hence the reason why these guys started this topic in the first place. It's not like it matters anyway. Lucasfilm will continue to make these shows, and who's to say if they won't make more that take place before or after the previous ones. I don't see a problem with this and don't see why we should go by their airdates, especially since they don't appear to be in order visually.

 

Why shouldn't we go by their airdates, just to waste some of our time, or because we always want something to complain about. Please, tell me. There has been, aside from Hidden Enemy, no indication whatsoever that the episodes could not be in chronological order. Does it really matter wether or not Rookies was before Ryloth, or before Ambush, or maybe even after the upcoming Geonosis arc? As Mace Windu would say: "I don't think so".

 

Is Trespass the only episode (besides Rookiees) not to feature Ahsoka in some form, but featuring Anakin and Obi-Wan?

By Dave's logic, Trespass would have to be #1 chronologically, before even The Hidden Enemy.

That doesn't make sense to me. How about this: Ahsoka is recovering from the Blue Shadow Virus, Anakin and Obi-Wan are on their own.

Put Trespass after Blue Shadow/Mystery of 1000 Moons?

 

I would like to thank you all for working on this list. Although it took me a while to find it, persistence paid off. This is EXACTLY what I need for the day off from work.

I know that generating it is a labor of love, but I thought you needed to know that there are people out there who greatly appreciate your efforts.

 

Jumping the gun a little bit, it seems like the Mandalore trilogy is the earliest chronological material yet. And Lightsaber Lost predates Grievous Intrigue, as the latter shows Ahsoka hanging around with Terra Sinube whom she first meets in the former. So it looks roughly like this:

-Mandalore Plot
-Voyage of Temptation
-Duchess of Mandalore
-201: The Hidden Enemy
-118/TCW: The New Padawan
-101/TCW: Castle of Doom
-103/TCW: Castle of Deception
-104/TCW: Castle of Salvation
-102: Downfall of a Droid
-106: Duel of the Droids
-108: Ambush
-107: Rising Malevolence
-109: Shadow of Malevolence
-111: Destroy Malevolence
-105: Bombad Jedi
-110: Cloak of Darkness
-112: Lair of Grievous
-114: Rookies
-116: Dooku Captured
-120: The Gungan General
-115: Storm Over Ryloth
-117: Innocents of Ryloth
-119: Liberty on Ryloth
-122: Jedi Crash
-124: Defenders of Peace
-125: Trespass
-126: Blue Shadow Virus
-202: Mystery of a Thousand Moons
-204: Hostage Crisis
-123: Holocron Heist
-113: Cargo of Doom
-203: Children of the Force
-205: Senate Spy
-207: Landing at Point Rain
-208: Weapons Factory
-209: Legacy of Terror
-212: Brain Invaders
-Lightsaber Lost
-Grievous Intrigue
-The Deserter

Sorry for not attaching the episode numbers... just threw this together off the top of my head...

 

My girlfriend and I were discussing how these Mandalorian episodes seem like they're before the movie. Anakin's attitude alone seems to suggest this (seemed very cocky), plus Rex referring to R2 as "Skywalker's astromech" (and the obvious lack of a certain Ms. Tano).

I hope we get to see more of Obi-Wan and Anakin pre-Ahsoka.

 

Is this spoiler for Duchess of Mandalore or Senate Murders?