Before, I start, I'd better mention that I'm a bit biased. I'm a big fan of the Clone Wars microseries.

Nevertheless, a number of discrepencies arrive when this series is inserted into continuity. Master Windu slaughtering legions of super battle droids, unarmed? Super-mega-epic space battles? Unbelievably large space fleets? And this doesn't even touch on the discrepencies between the microseries and Labyrinth of Evil.

So what's a fan to do? Certainly, many have simply allowed for the cartoon's events to be mixed into regular continuity with no watering-down whatsoever. A few pushes here and pulls there to get the timeline to match up, and we've got a storyline that unfolds decently.

But then we're stuck with larger-than-life heroes (even for Jedi) defeating their enemies.

The best answer? In my opinion, the top solution is to treat the microseries as a sort of "Legends of the Clone Wars," if you will.

In other words, these would be events based on "actual" fact, real events that occurred within the galaxy far, far away. But consider these like the Legends of King Arthur, or of Robin Hood, or the Legend of William Wallace. While certainly deeply rooted in actual events, their real unfolding may have varied.

This would also allow for greater compensation within the timeline--when lining up the events, the reason they're off can be easily blamed on the legend quality of these cartoons.

So that makes the Clone Wars microseries sort of the Clone Wars, as told in stories by the citizens of the galaxy far, far away.

And, conveniently, we have source for these stories in the form of Paxi Sylo. Viewers will remember Paxi was the young boy who watched Mace's exploits on Dantooine in Chapters 12 and 13. Paxi's Databank entry gives us some useful information:

History has lost track of whatever became of Paxi Sylo. By the time of the Empire, the Sylo farm had been completely abandoned. However, at the height of Palpatine's New Order, a bootleg animated holographic video file began propagating in the shadier parts of the HoloNet. It depicted the heroic exploits of Mace Windu on Dantooine.

The Imperial Security Bureau did what it could to stop proliferation of such a treasonous piece of media, but it gained a cult status among would-be Rebels. Though the holovid is unattributed, the style does match up with the early illustrations of a young Paxi Sylo.

This seems to make Paxi the creator of the microseries, or at least Chapters 12 and 13. Personally, I'd like to see this classification extend over the entire run: Paxi, based on what he saw of Mace Windu, and the rumors and stories he heard of the happenings of the Clone Wars, created an animated holographic video file depicting the Clone Wars as he remembered them and had heard about them.

And that, my friends, is my answer to the riddle of the Clone Wars microseries' canoninity.