Why is the chronological order so all over the place?

It is rather strange. I'm not sure why it was aired out of order, besides the fact they used the first part of Season 3 to give background to earlier events. I know that Season 2 had a lot that was out of order too though.

I watched the show in chronological order myself, which I found enjoyable, and is provided at Star Wars.com: http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-clone-wars-chronological-episodeorder

Still trying to figure that one out, my best guess is the production style saw episodes finished out of order for whichever Lucas felt was ready to air. The producers have stated they didn't think there'd be too many continuity issues as long as the multi-part stories stayed cohesive, but the show was much more serialized as development moved on, writers paid attention to scripts written earlier and weren't treating their own as totally stand-alone. It is what it is, really the only thing irritating me is I'd have to introduce someone new to the show with the 16th eps from Seasons 2 and 1, while I personally feel the feature has a superior pilot feel. After those two eps are out of the way and then the feature, I love the chronological order, I watch Seasons 1-3 no other way.

But yes, following the show on DVDs or netflix, the order is all over the place and you really gotta keep a list next to you. It's the same with so many other shows like the 90s X-Men cartoon, Sliders, even Quantum Leap. Sucks, but at least the second half of Season 3 and 4-6 are on track.

Superman & The [Red-Blue] Blur = The Man of Steel

Could've been a production thing, but I think when they started, they weren't planning on a fully connected series, but were instead looking at it like someone telling these stories to others, and you know when people relate stories, stuff's not always in order (much like how REH wrote the Conan stories). But then they changed focus to a more tightened, connected story.

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It is simply ''out of order'' because of the episodes are just prequels. Many of the episodes that took place earlier simply didn't exist production wise. They just later went on to develop episodes that fleshed out things in the episodes they already produced. That's why it is order out of order.

this is an anthology so sotries don't need to be chronological, I actually like that it's not in order. It gives a feeling of pieces being put together in a puzzle.

Let me think what other episodic content i like that it's out or order hmmmmm

Oh the star wars saga R1-4-5-6-1-2-3-7

So yeah it's nothing new in the star wars media and it makes it feel right.

It's frustrating, because someone will die, then I'll see them later in an episode that happened before. Also, someone is established and I see them for the first time before they are introduced in a later episode. Can be somewhat cofusing.

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