Ok, this has just been bugging me recently:
The disagreement of sources on what exactly happened right before Revenge of the Sith.

I, like many people, have seen the second season of the Clone Wars, which shows exactly what happens right before Obi-Wan and Anakin show up above Coruscant, including the exact events of the Chancellor's abduction as well as what our two favorite Jedi are going.

But I also read Labyrinth of Evil. Which ALSO explains how the Chancellor was kidnapped, and what Obi-Wan and Anakin were doing.

Now, as far as Palpatine's abduction goes, the accounts differ but have important similarities, such as Palpatine's initial unwillingness to cower, Greivous and his Magna Gaurds' personal handling of the situation, the Jedi envolved, and... trains. However, the exact sequence of events differ greatly.
In the book, there are shields, not that many Seperatist ships actually get through, and they attack civilian targets to inspire terror. In the cartoon, they swarm and land armies on the surface.
In the book, Mace Windu and Kit Fisto personally help oversee the Chancellor's evacuation, a large part of which happens on a train. In the Cartoon, Mace is elsewhere, Kit Fisto isn't even shown, and there's a fight at a train station.
Anyways, annoying specific differences aside, when you're telling the story, the same thing still happened. You can name names, and get the important stuff out without disputing either source. It even evokes the thought of the discrepancy between the X-Wing novels dealing with Warlord Zsinj and The Courtship of Princess Leia, which was written before, but takes place after the X-Wing books. In Courtship, Han Solo shows no surprise at all when seeing the supposedly destroyed flagship Iron Fist still intact after he "saw" it destroyed. Oh, and Iron Fist is suddenly a normal Star Destroyer, not a Super Star Destoryer. Nothing a little retcon can't solve, though.

But Obi-Wan and Anakin's locations and activities immediately prior are vastly different. In the book, theya re pursuring Count Dooku on Tythe. In the cartoon, Anakin is completing his last Jedi Trial in practice and singlehandedly destroys a big CIS facility and saves a bunch of natives.
In both cases, Obi-Wan and Anakin find oyut about the Attack on Coruscant immediately after and rush to help and save the Chancellor. The stories are irreconsiliable.

As I do when confronted with these troubling issues, I turned to my great freind, The New Essential Chronology (fantastic by the way, a must have). But alas, I got no help. As I figured Palpatine's kidnapping was merely told as an event that happened, but nothing was revealed about Anakin's and Obi-Wan's doings right then. Indeed, both accounts are mentioned. It said basically: Anakin and Obi-wan were saving the Nelvan warrior. Meanwhile, the Palpatine was captured. After a mission to Tythe pursuing Count Dooku, Obi-Wan and Anakin rushed back to Coruscant.

But the Nelvan mission ended in returning to Cruscant also.


My opinion, in the end, is for a retcon of when what Anakin and Obi-Wan did in the cartoon happened. It happened earlier, sometime or immediately before their mission to Cato Nemoidia (the begining of the book). (Despite the fact that the whole point of the Clone Wars Cartoon was to show what happened exactly what happened before ROTS. But Labyrinth of Evil's version is deeper and less mutable, I think.)

As for the abduction part.... I'm open to accepting it as a wishy-washy "Sure, whichever you want" kind of side step.

If anyone has any other (better) explanations or knows of any official account, please, share it with me. And if anyone can convincingly corrobrate the two accounts of Palpatine's abduction to suggest that they both happened, each only showing parts, I'd be very itnerested to hear it.

So basically, yeah, that just kind of bothered me. Anyone else?