
Made with Observable Framework and D3. Metadata from TMDB, OMDB and IMDB. Story order based on a video from the Star Wars Lads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_bEHzy-eo&t=1089s
Interactive version: https://erik.nz/sw/
Source code is here: https://github.com/nerik/sw
Posted by nerik8000
![A timeline of every Star Wars shows in story order [OC] A timeline of every Star Wars shows in story order [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/yjyv0wp3okwe1-513x1536.png)
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None of the timelines overlap?
Ngl this is pretty but barely readable. The bar graphs growing from the center for ratings is super confusing.
I like how you’ve made this into a giant colon. Quite fitting for how Disney is going about digesting the Star Wars franchise.
I appreciate the effort but this isn’t beautiful IMHO
If you really want to understand Star Wars you have to watch a children’s cartoon from a decade ago.
There are 3 Star Wars movies. Why would I need this?
We know some media overlaps, but I think it’s a really well-made, simple, and readable timeline of the franchise.
Great graph, now I know Star Wars history ends for me about “Skeleton Crew”
Now that’s a fucking marathon watch
Andor season 2 heavily overlaps with rebels.
No mention of the games? I’d like to see knights of the old republic in there somewhere
What’s with the jar jar binks zone? It just continues throughout the entire graph
How could you forget the Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and Star Wars: Ewoks (2 seasons) ???
too much content with questionable quality
Beautiful work! This must have taken a considerable amount of work first to assemble the data and then to make the timeline. You know it is a great visualization when you find yourself extensively exploring the data.
This is a refreshing departure from the sankey diagrams, bar charts and colored maps (chloropleths) that we usually get here.
Could you explain the stars
Where’s the Christmas special? And the Ewok adventures?
What do they mean Episode VII, VIII and IX? There are no such things.
I wish the Acolyte didn’t fall flat, I really wanted some good live action stuff from that period
I’m fine with skipping the comics and novels if you wanna stick with just the cinematic media, but where are the movies *Star Wars Holiday Special*, *Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure* and *Ewoks: The Battle for Endor*?
/s
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I need someone to actually put this together in a box set so I can watch the whole thing in chronological order. It’s a hard visual to follow easily, but a fucking cool idea.
Where does the Christmas Special fit into all of this?
This is so sick! Though it’s missing the original 2D clone wars mini-series. It’d be fun to see how it would be spread out in the chronology
Those of you who haven’t seen Andor yet should consider watching it.
I found it to be the best show by far, and better than most of the movies,
Say what you will about the rest of the Star Wars IP, but the last 4 episodes of Clone Wars should be *the* standard about how to write a show constrained by a canonical timeline and set of events.
Yes stuff does overlap but I believe this a good watch order. (Holding out on Andor as season 2 covers a lot of time and will finish after rebels)
You missed the Christmas special!
I hope this is based on critical IMDB reviews and not audience IMDB reviews. Cause SW audience reviews are notoriously out of touch
Edit: it has to be audience reviews, there’s no way every single episode of the acolyte is worse than CW season 1 or literally every rebels episode. I like those shows but they have stinkers