The Clone Wars section of The Essential Atlas had a good description of Clone Wars events. It had the stance of not necessarily stating the year every battle is in, although for some it does say "in the last year". That includes Praesitlyn, which in my opinion is wrong, but for the rest of it it simply described the events, in no particular order. More grouping the events by medium than by timeline (TCW, novels, comics). Especially since the stories told in the novels, with the exception of Jedi Trial and Labyrinth of Evil, did not show massive battles (as the comics and TV show did) but showed smaller events, featuring one or two Jedi and a few clones. Different type of storytelling, different type of war per the atlas.

And it does mention the Genndy series (in fact, it references every battle of seasons 1 and 2).

In this respect, him saying the Emperor doesn't get cloned, etc. is not supposed to be taken as a random statement of things he doesn't agree with (which would be very strange, since he actually personally approved the clone Emperor plot instead of the original Dark Empire story draft in which Palpatine did not come back, which he rejected), I believe he's just underlining that these things are not part of the Darth Vader story; Palps clones and Luke's marriage are not the next installment of that story, once Vader's dead, that story's over.

As Darthmilo says, I think it's important to take into account the context of the above quote; it's only a partial excerpt of a longer interview.

At that point, Lucas was talking about the likelihood of continuing the movie saga, making an Episode VII - he was adamant that he wouldn't, as the saga is over; the saga is the story of Darth Vader, so once he is dead, the story is over, there can be no continuation to Darth Vader's story, anymore than there can be another installment of the Thrawn trilogy after Thrawn dies.

Hmm I see.... Thank you for discussing this. I'm glad there are other fans that are equally distraught over these recent shows... I mean don't get me wrong I still enjoy watching them immensely, but it's just hard for me to take it seriously because of so many inconsistencies.

And now there have been novels about the events after Episode VI, which isn't at all what I would have done with it. The Star Wars story is really the tragedy of Darth Vader. That is the story. Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married..."

This is a quote from GL out from wookiepidia. GL alowed these novels to be written about the events after episode 6 and obviously didnt control the events that took place, and now he just plain says they never happened? I can understand the aggravation of the authors, (Karen Traviss) Well heck I would be furious if I wrote a series of books and GL Doesnt even give it any credit...

Lucas is the one who is pulling the strings of power in the matter you bring up, not Filoni.

That doesn't mean that Filoni has no part, though. For someone who's allegedly an EU buff, he doesn't seem to know much or care about it as evidenced by interviews. Also, he's kind of a hack.

One more point... I hear that this new series completely erases the old Clonewars series that tarskosky or whatever did, Is this true?

Probably not. In the Clone Wars continuity thread, it says that no work will be entirely removed from canon because of TCW. If you mean the problem with Anakin being knighted, that's still being worked out, but considering how many people saw and liked the original show, I strongly doubt it will stop existing, even if it is out of print on DVD.

I hear that George Lucas Does has not even read 1 novel from the EU, doesnt that sound like a receipie for disaster when it comes to canon? What infuriates me even more is that this new Clonewars series doesnt even follow any type of timeline, each episode is in some random point in the Clone wars, it defenitly doesnt help set excitement for the series, I mean sure, there is sometimes like 3 episodes in a row that tell a story, but the whole series is one collection of random stories? I mean this is a disaster for those that really want to keep a track exactly of what happened in the CloneWars. One more point... I hear that this new series completely erases the old Clonewars series that tarskosky or whatever did, Is this true? if so that is a horrible blow to someone who poured there hard effort into a part of the Saga. Please Leeland, you are one of our last hopes to right so many wrongs.

I have a question that really concerns me. I have heard rumers that Karen Traviss has decided to quit writing books becuase some of the materials in dave Filonis Clonewars Cartoons have contradicted her writings, this is very upsetting to me, at what point does very established starwars authors have a say to the canon, does Dave Filoni have complete reign to change a very important period in Starwars History it just doesnt seem fair to give all that power to one man. Thank you for showing concern to the fans.

^ great way of breaking that down.

Timeline question:

As some of you may or may not be aware, there's been some hubbub and/or kerfuffle on Wookieepedia over the last few days regarding the BBY/ABY system, specifically regarding the year leading up to the events of Episode IV and its designation. Leland Chee generously answered an email from Nathan Butler, but just a little more clarification is required since it affects a huge site-spanning policy. It would be a huge help if any Licensing VIP (especially Leland Chee) could confirm or deny the following statements:

(not to mention the backbone of the EU)

Exactly. My feeling was just that it would be terrible and unjustified to throw that out - but I see that making it a separate category is way better than throwing it out, and thus a great idea/decision if throwing it out was the alternative.