Heh, it's for the kids, they love him.
...apparently.

I thought it was an alright episode myself, don't have that much of a problem with them bouncing around the timeline as long as they bring some interesting insights to the table. The whole series has kinda done this, what with some episodes of the series happening before the Clone Wars movie and so on, so it is unlikely they'll quit that now.
The thing that got me wondering was why they had a New Hope style paint job on the Taintive IV rather than the quite different blue paint job it had in Episode III, that was a bit weird. Unless they're trying to suggest that Bail Organa has a fleet of Corvettes all pimped out with different colour schemes?