Holocron in action! Travel to Mustafar! Embo!
“Holocron Heist” (S201)
Cad Bane infiltrates the Jedi Temple and attempts to steal an ancient Jedi Holocron. It’s up to Ahsoka, Anakin, and Obi-Wan to stop the bounty hunter from escaping with the valuable Jedi artifact.
“Cargo of Doom” (S202)
Anakin and Ahsoka intercept Cad Bane’s warship, hoping to recover the stolen Jedi Holocron.
“Children of the Force” (S203)
Cad Bane is given a new destructive mission: kidnap Force-sensitive children from across the galaxy and bring them to Mustafar for Sith training.
This three-part story arc marks the first chronological appearance of bounty hunter Cad Bane who was first introduced in the Season One finale. Although Todo 360 gets blown up in “Holocron Heist,” he’ll be rebuilt in time to appear in future episodes.
Felucia, one of the Order 66 planets in Revenge of the Sith, gets revisited multiple times during the series. Commander Wolffe returns sporting a scar over his right eye, an event that was shown in the comics. Warthog, a pilot in Plo Koon’s unit, makes his first appearance. This is also the first time we see gunships from Plo’s fleet sporting the “Plo’s Bros” emblem.
Ahsoka Tano continues to grow under the tutelage of Anakin but her impulsiveness leads her to be reprimanded by the Jedi Council. It won’t be the last time she will have to face the Council.
Bounty Hunter Cato Parasitti is arrested in “Holocron Heist” but will manage to find her way out of custody to appear in later episodes. Jocasta Nu, the Jedi librarian from Attack of the Clones, makes her first appearance. This arc marks the first appearance of a Jedi Holocron, established in the Expanded Universe as a repository of Jedi knowledge. Here it is used as a reader of a special Kyber crystal. We’ll learn in later episodes that Kyber crystals serve another important purpose for the Jedi.
In this arc, we’ll visit Mustafar from Revenge of the Sith, revisited recently in the Season Five episode “Eminence.”
“Bounty Hunters” (S217)
Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahoska form an uneasy partnership with four deadly bounty hunters to help protect a local spice farmer from Hondo Ohnaka and his band of pirates.
As I said above, Felucia gets revisited multiple times in the series, and so here we are. This episode introduces Sugi, a bounty hunter with a conscience. Up until this point, bounty hunters had been portrayed as amoral. Sugi’s team includes Embo, the bounty hunter with the multipurpose hat, who will also become a mainstay of The Clone Wars. Not bad, considering Embo was going to die in early scripts for the episode. Sugi’s ship, the Halo, is merely glimpsed in this episode.
Everyone’s favorite Weequay pirate, Hondo Ohnaka, makes an appearance. In this episode he’s a bad guy.
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“Children of the Force” (S203)
“Bounty Hunters” (S217)
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Yay! Thank you Leland!
Hi Mr Chee!
I’d like to point out an illogicality with this latest addition.
In “Holocron Heist” the Republic lost Felucia.
In “Bounty Hunters” Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka were sent to investigate the dissappearence of a Medical centre orbiting over Felucia. So if “Bounty Hunters” takes place after “Holocron Heist” how comes Anakin and the others are surprised to find a small droid outpost in place of the med centre, when they knew the planet was taken over by the Separatists?
Thanks for the post! I didn’t see the timeline shift for “Bounty Hunters” coming. Are there any hints in it or other episodes as to why “Bounty Hunters” occurs before the other episodes in Season 2?
Interesting placement for Bounty Hunters.
Truly a nonsensical placement for Bounty Hunters. Having moved the episode all the way up the timeline and placing it directly after the Holocron arc where Felucia is taken by the seppies, it makes no sense to then have Felucia unoccupied in the very next arc! Placing Bounty Hunters before Holocron Heist works perfectly ie: the republic is first made aware of the separatists move for Felucia by destroying the medical base and by the next episode (Holocron Heist) there is a full scale battle consisting primarily of the players seen in Bounty Hunters leading the battle. This placement has to be an error.
I agree with your theory. Placing “Bounty Hunters” before makes much more sense. It’s almost as if it were produced as a pseudo-prequel to “Holocron Heist”. Leland’s placement is probably an error.
Then that would mean that Senate Spy and the Second Battle of Geonosis episodes have to take place after Liberty of Ryloth since the teaser for Bounty Hunters showcases those events….
So this is how I think it works…
Liberty on Ryloth
Senate Spy
Landing at Point Rain
Weapons Factory
Legacy of Terror
Brain Invaders
Bounty Hunters
Holocron Heist
Cargo of Doom
Children of the Force
Lightsabre Lost
The Zillo Beast
The Zillo Beast Strikes Back
Flows much better and makes more sense…
From what I understand, the newsreel footage at the beginning of the episode shouldn’t be used to figure out chronology.
The Republic loses the planet. Then they are surprised his enemy on the planet orbit. It makes no sense…
I totally agree Tom. That has to be an error cause it definitely does not makes sense. Your order is what it should be.
When I first saw Bounty Hunters, I did think it could serve as a prequel to Holocron Heist.
Is there any in-episode for Season 2’s Bane trilogy to preclude Hostage Crisis? I know this is how Lucasfilm is presenting the order, but I can’t think of one.
I think I need to re-watch them in this order before coming to a conclusion. I don’t recall either The Republic’s or The Separatists’ interest in Felucia being made clear in Holocron Heist. There may be valid reasons why the Jedi didn’t expect The Separatists to actually occupy the planet after the battle in Holocron Heist: I don’t think we know why the battle was going on there in the first place (not that I can recall anyway). Anyway, thanks again to Leeland for sharing! It’s good to know that publishing the definitive episode chronology isn’t going to stop people discussing it.
I agree that it seems rather odd that the Republic doesn’t know what happened to the medical station if they had lost a battle to the separatists in that planet earlier. But you have to make some asumptions. First, that the Republic had a hold on the main areas of Fellucia and the Separatists invaded and won a battle to dominate a certain area. But the Republic still maintained a hold on other areas of the planet. They left a medical station close to the planet.
I agree with making assumptions. I am going to make the assumption that Bounty Hunters was placed incorrectly.
That also leads into assuming that the Jedi power trio decided to come back shortly thereafter with ground troops only, lost and waited for the fleet to rescue them. Taking into account that the only separatists they saw in Bounty Hunters were a space station with vulture droids.
True. Which still makes more sense than the alternative. As i said earlier:-
“the republic is first made aware of the separatists move for Felucia by destroying the medical base and by the next episode (Holocron Heist) there is a full scale battle consisting primarily of the players seen in Bounty Hunters leading the battle. This placement has to be an error.”
I can jump to the conclusion that the seppies invaded soon after and that republic reinforcements were brought in too little too late. It just does not make any sense that a planet that is lost (restated by Obiwan on Coruscant) is then unoccupied in the very next arc! I just get the feeling that somewhere along the line there was a direction that Bounty Hunters was to be placed with the Holocron arc and it accidentally was placed after instead of before. Why bother moving it up the timeline otherwise?
We consider Felucia to be a major hot spot in the war and thus control of the planet is changing constantly. As such, we do not consider the planet’s state in any given episode in determining the episode timeline order. Also, unless explicitly stated, I wouldn’t infer how much time elapses in between story arcs.
Thank you Mr. Chee!
Thanks for the clarification!
Thanks for the response Mr Chee. Personally, I’m gonna keep BH before HC in my viewing order coz it is …well…more logical, but it is appreciated you taking the time to explain the official position not just with these eps but with the whole blog in general:)
I can understand that Felucia is a “hot spot” and control is changing constantly, but then why would the Republic build a -presumably rather expensive- medcentre at a constantly active warzone? That just doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s far more reasonable to assume that Felucia was for a while a safe zone, so the Republic put a med centre there, then the Seps ambushed it and the state of constant fighting and changing control started when this was discovered in “Bounty Hunters”.
Not to mention, to make it 100% logical, all you have to do is placing Bonty Hunters a little bit earlier. I think such an act would not interfere with any other TCW episode
Lets not forget that an awful lot happens in between the first two minutes of Holocron Heist and the end of that arc. While our heroes were failing to protect the Temple and chasing down Cad Bane, Felucia might have changed hands following a swift strike back by The Republic. Some revised Newsreels in a definitive DVD/BluRay edition might help things along though
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@JonnyM Yeah, right, and to celebrate that they momentarly recaptured the planet, the Republic quickly built a medical centre there. Even Palpatine’s scehme wouldn’t benefit from something so ludricously stupid.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Werebazs…Felucia was one of the key contested worlds in the Clone Wars. In “Holocron Heist” the Republic battles the Separatist Alliance for control — remember, we see this exact conflict in “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith”. So…knowing — and understanding — this, we can imply the medical station was built before the Republic loses control of the planet for the first time. To me, the explanation Leland gave was sufficient — it makes sense.
1: I said I understand that control of Felucia is changing constantly. But as you said it yourself: it’s reasonable to assume that the med centre was built before the Republic lost control of Felucia for the first time. So “Bounty Hunters” simply can’t take place late in the time range when Felucia was a hot spot. For once: why would the Republic have a med centre in an active war zone, over which control is changing all the time? That’s stupid. For two: If Felucia was a war zone, why would the Jedi be surprised to find droids there? That’s just plain ridiculous.
2: Leland’s explanation doesn’t make ANY sense at all. He basicly said “I don’t pay attention to details.”
The only thing that makes sense is that Bounty Hunters is before Holocron Heist. This anomaly was probably inherited by Chee and left to him to explain. Just move Bounty Hunters up one arc and be done with it I say:)
Why would The Republic have a med centre in an active war zone? Perhaps it was built before Felucia became an active war zone.
Why would the Jedi be surprised to find droids there? Perhaps the latest intelligence indicated that The Separatists had fully withdrawn from the area following it’s recapture by The Republic.
There are valid explanations. I agree that it’s a shame that we have to look for them, but I’m prepared to do so. I’d rather “Bounty Hunters” came first, but we are where we are.
Also, Leland didn’t say he didn’t pay attention to details. He said there were certain criteria that were not taken into consideration.
“Also, Leland didn’t say he didn’t pay attention to details. He said there were certain criteria that were not taken into consideration.”
Yes…. the details.
This bickering is pointless.