During The Clone Wars 10th Anniversary Panel at Comic-Con 2018, Dave Filoni announced that Season 7 of The Clone Wars is happening. Disney cancelled the series shortly after acquiring Lucasfilm during production of the 6th season. It was the last project George Lucas was involved with, and many consider it some of the best storytelling and characters since the original trilogy. After it’s cancellation, fans were left with many open story arcs and no conclusion. Several story reels were released on StarWars.com, but if you want to stay completely spoiler-free, stick to seasons 1 through 6.

Lucasfilms released The Clone Wars episodes out of chronological order for various reasons, including production times and lead-up episodes written. Here are a couple different ways to watch it in chronological order.

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Reddit user Sapitoelgato came up with a modified version of this called Ultimate Episode Order –

I went back and highlighted which ones I altered in the list.

There will be potential spoilers:

ARC Troopers I placed it up closer to Rookies, so to finish that part of the story arc.

Massacre I moved that to right after Witches of the Mist to give time for Ventress to wander off to the outer rim, and get her change of attire/ find herself. Plus, it seemed like a long gap from her failed assassination attempt at Dooku, and her return to Dathomir, with Dooku dealing with Talzin swiftly.

Deception: Undercover arc I felt it was best to make the kidnapping attempt to come farther away from Revenge of the Sith, because it would be enough time to have the republic lower it’s guard again. Plus, it is interesting to have Anakin go from almost losing his padawan to thinking he lost his master Obi-Wan.

Bounty I wanted to tease this story arc along sooner as you are watching the show, so I put it in right after the water war arc. I felt that Shadow Warrior was a good fit of an episode to play afterward.

Brothers/Revenge Again, like Bounty, I put it sooner to tease along the Maul/Savage story line. I felt that putting Shadow Warrior between Bounty and Brothers was a good way to set up time, so Savage could travel to find/save his brother until they meet up, with Ventress in Revenge.

The Onderan arc I put it closer to the Friend in Need episode, so that it could be resolved sooner than later.

Rise of Clovis arc this one was suggested by someone else in a different post, and it makes total sense. The original voice actor of Palpatine did the voice for these episodes (before he passed away), and it fit nicely in the timeline. From the stories on out, there is a shift in the new voice actor at the end of The Lawless episode.

Secret Weapons arc I moved it around to get it out of the way from the last set of episodes, because it seemed out of place being sandwiched between the Youngling Arc and the Lawless arc. Not only that, but it makes episodes 100-121 a great binge of episodes.

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If you want the ultimate experience, here’s my setup –

  • Get the digital versions of all episodes, whether from ripped Amazon DVDs or another way.
  • If you’re not already, use Plex on your main PC. I’m a huge fan of Plex and use it to watch all movies, TV shows, on any device, including my big screen TV. Before you import your media, use the naming convention listed here.
  • For media storage, I use both my PC and a NAS. Both of which use 4 TB External USB drives. Plex will import media just fine from either. Don’t use SSD drives for storage.
  • I’m also a huge fan of Roku for my TV and have the Plex app is free.
  • Plex offers the ability to do playlists. After your media is imported, create a playlist based on the chronological order above. More help with Playlists can be found here. Admittedly, creating a playlist does take a fair bit of time with a library of 139 videos, but it’s well worth it.
  • The Clone Wars also had featurettes. Don’t tell anyone but I save YouTube videos locally using jDownloader which can save either a single video or an entire playlist such as mranderson00001’s here. I’ve added those to my Plex playlist so for example after watching season 2, I can watch the deleted scenes, commentary about a specific story arc, etc. Pretty geeky I know.