Well fuck Pablo Hidalgo if that’s the case. I wouldn’t hope for a full on SOTE adaptation at this point, but there is a motherlode of great ideas that they developed for it back in the 90s. Combine that with new stuff and you could have a show similar in structure to the Clone Wars spanning from shortly after Yavin to shortly after Endor.
They’ve filled that space so much though, especially with comics and even the new Rogue Squadron movie. I don’t think it’s a bad idea for them to move out of the OT. Seems like they’re trying to slowly edge away from it, with things set 6+ years after and 5-10 years before.
I can’t see why LAL couldn’t be working within two eras at the same time. They kinda did just that with Rebels and Resistance.
I’m sure they will work in multiple eras, I just think the goal is to show more love to new places that haven’t already got so much going on. I’m pretty sure the main reason Bad Batch is happening is because they were the last characters created by George with Dave.
Also, LAL is such a tiny piece of Lucasfilm. Like, look at those credits. Most of Rebels, Resistance, and Clone Wars are all the same crew. Any overlap was just in the final and first seasons between shows. The people who are different look like new hires replacing people who left for other projects outside of Lucasfilm/Disney.
I loved Shadows as well, and would love for Dash and Xizor to come back in some way… but Boba’s characterisation in Mandalorian already is at odds with Shadows.
Yes, the fact that the OT era is so filled up with new comic series (IMO mostly sub-par, sadly) doesn’t bode too well for an animated show starring the classic characters.
But Xizor (and more importantly the Black Sun) already is cannon, so there are possibilities there. Dash Rendar I could give or take.