Interesting. I do remember hearing some speculation (or maybe it was based on something Filoni or someone else said) that we would see the Jedi purge to some extent. Considering that scene comes right before Order 66, I imagine this will probably end up being true. But to what extent? If I had to guess I’d say we’ll see Captain Rex’s perspective? Don’t really want to show everyone getting murdered on a kids show (plus we’ve seen it in the film anyway), and Rex will show a different side of the event that will lead into Rebels. Well, I guess we’ll have to see Ahsoka’s perspective as well.
I will say, if they’re going right up and into ROTS, that’ll make the fact that they just sort of dropped into the Clone Wars halfway between AOTC and ROTS even weirder.
They kinda had to - Anakin was still an apprentice in AOTC, so it doesn’t make much sense for him to suddenly get a padawan (they wanted to start with Ahsoka to give new audiences a character to latch to).
Yeah I guess Ahsoka is as good a reason as any. But Anakin is ostensibly the main character of this era, and is very different in AOTC and ROTS, so you’d think a 7 season show roughly revolving around him would show that growth. But when we meet him he’s basically 75% of the way to his ROTS characterization already (not to mention we’re missing the introductions of characters like Asajj and Grievous, as was previously mentioned in this thread). I don’t have a problem with it really, it’s just odd to think about. I guess they maybe could have done an arc or two set before the movie to bridge the gap (they did do a couple episodes) but whatever.
Ultimately I guess if you’re hungry for pre-TCW post-AOTC content, the 2D Clone Wars is still the place to go.
They also didn’t want to conflict with the at the time canon 2D Clone Wars. Honestly, if this takes off and they end up finishing all the remaining unproduced stories, I’d be down to see a prequel season or two with Anakin as a padawan and mullet Obi-Wan, set just after AotC.
I’d be down for this, even if I doubt it’d happen. Maybe do it as a couple hour long specials or something.