I have noticed after the 3rd time watching this through that the series was actually out of chronological order if that is the proper term to use. So was this done deliberately or what was the reason for it? The 1st episode of the Clone Wars movie dealt with Yoda going to Toydaria to see about getting a republic base on the planet and then during season 3 during what should have been the 1st battle of Ryloth the Toydarian king states that they are neutral.

I am not asking for all 6 seasons to be explained to me how they should have appeared in chronological order but I am trying to find out why that was done?

I'm not positive why it was done, but my personal guess is that, as they were doing it, they occasionally had a good idea for a story that required some non-continuous element.

There is a list floating around of the episodes in chronological order. I have read that it has a couple issues still, but that it clears up most of it.I have also read that it improves the show significantly. I, myself, am only part way through it in chronological order, so I can't really comment.

Gotta say, if you saw the whole series twice before I am surprised you didn't notice. There is a character that gets killed and then shows up again a season later.

I noticed that with Padme's Uncle that he gets whacked and in the next episode there he is. When I watched it a 2nd time I was also had in the background while I was either mainly reading or building some mechs for Battletech. This time around I am trying to pay a lot more attention so I can understand the universe a bit better for Star Wars and I know I have a long way to go. It might be easier to get the entire 6 seasons on the blu ray that they have released to watch the show in chronological order if I can find the list online but right now happy with watching it on Netflix before jumping to Revenge of the Sith.

Just google "Clone Wars chronological order", something like the first dozen hits are lists or the reordered episodes.

Reordered it does make more sense.

There is an official list:

http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-clone-wars-chronological-episodeorder?repeat=w3tc

Yeah found the list this morning while google. Now just debating if I want to actually watch it in Chronological order one day

If your watching it for the third time now, I would assume that you will probably watch it again at some point, when you do, just remember to watch it in order that time.

I must do a chronological watch of all 5 series at some point (though skipping 90% of the Senate episodes and that ridiculous arc where a whole episode is just a bunch of Astromechs crossing a desert...). It being out of order has never really bothered me, though; the major arcs appear mostly in order (the Domino Squad ones apart from 'Clone Cadets' episode, the Mandalore and Maul bits, the Ventriss/Night Sisters are also fine) and the rest are mostly self-contained barring the odd character/plot thread crossing over.

Watching TCW in chronological order is so much better. As for why it was aired out of order, I think some of it had to do with drawing in viewers.

For example season 5 starts off with Maul and Savage wrecking Hondo's pirate base, but then later when the younglings are there it isn't wrecked. They made the choice to show the Maul episodes first because putting Maul up front is a bigger draw to hook viewers than some younglings.

Not sure if similar logic was behind other out of order bits, but that's one explanation.

Others might just have been them deciding later on that they wanted to revisit some things from previous seasons.

In any case, watching the show in chronological order is well worth it.

I watched in chrono order and I can't imagine watching it any other way. I think by the time you get past Season 3 then it's fine. It's mostly Season 1 and 2.

I watched it out of order, mainly because I couldn't be arsed to flip through the episodes on Netflix and remember which I'd seen and which went where.

It wasn't too bad, sometimes a bit jarring when you got episode 2 before 1 in one of those 3-episode arcs.

I will give it a shot but right now just going to finish watching it as is.

I just watched Episode 1, Episode 2, and Season 1 of Clone Wars (The Genndy Micro Series.)

I'm now going to watch The Clone Wars in chrono order and then watch Season 2 of Clone Wars (micro series) and then wrap it up with Revenge of the Sith.

Is that series different from the Clone wars?

Is that series different from the Clone wars?

Back in 2003? Cartoon Network did a series of shorts set in the clone wars. Basically the same concept as the full series, but these came first and were (I think) 20 three minute episodes followed by 4 fifteen minute episodes so there was about 2 hours of total content. They covered Anakin's promotion to full Jedi, dooku's recruitment of Ventress, and ended with the abduction of palpatine that RotS opens with.

A lot of people really liked them, I though they kinda mediocre. They played the Jedi waaaay over the top, one Jedi, by himself and without a lightsaber, taking on thousands of droids, tht kind of thing.

Admittedly that was Mace Windu - second-in-command of the Jedi Order as a whole - but it was pretty extreme in portrayal of force powers.

I watched those cartoon Clone Wars to death as a kid. End of the first series remains one of my favourite Star Wars scenes; the first on-screen appearance of Grevious, which saw him

That series had comic tie-ins as well - which kept the theme - Grievous takes on Durge and Ventress at the same time and wins.

I think the one thing that has alway bothered me about the clone wars as much as I love it is the southen accents on some of the characters. Ziro for instance is the worse well next to his mother. I mean he was the only Hutt who spoke the common tongue where as the others spoke what huttanese? Anyways giving him the southern drawl was pretty lame it made him sound out of place.

Not just southern accents. The whole series tended to use really bad accents (exaggerated almost to the point of offensive) for a lot of aliens. The sepratist mad scientist with the German accent right out of a ww2 propaganda film, the over-the-top Asian accent George Takei used for a sepratist general, the so bad Scottish (or wre they Irish, I'm not actually that good with accents) pacifist aliens.

All are pretty cringeworthy.

I think the one thing that has alway bothered me about the clone wars as much as I love it is the southen accents on some of the characters. Ziro for instance is the worse well next to his mother. I mean he was the only Hutt who spoke the common tongue where as the others spoke what huttanese? Anyways giving him the southern drawl was pretty lame it made him sound out of place.

It was a spoof of Truman Capote. Don't ask me why they were doing it though.

The reason the episodes were out of order, according to Filoni in the DVD extras, is that they would be working or doing story ideas and George would just say he wanted to do whatever and they just kinda had to go with it. I think they told him him about the R-series droid numbering during the series, though I may be mixing that up with episode 2 and R4-P17, since he wanted to call a droid with a R2 dome a R4 unit which why we see R7 and such named R-series droids in clone wars. George was also responsible for the droid saga, and especially the desert episode he said he wanted them to make an episode about nothing so...yea.

So imagine if George had his hands on Rebels...

Just imagine.

(Shiver)