Rogue Leader said:

Would of loved to see Thrawn somewhere in the Clone Wars... In fact that would been an great tie in for that series into later in the EU. You are right though, GL wouldn't do it nor does he really care all to much. Dave Filoni is a hardcore fan and EU knowledgable, he actually attempts to inject as much EU as possible into the Clone War series however some of the more reasonable ideas are rejected.

Vibro-blades with cortosis weaves for example... instead GL said "no, nothing can block a lightsaber" so let's make a "darksaber" (from the new Mandolarian plot story line, don't get me started on how much he's f'd the Mandarlores...). Yet, Episode III has those Phrik electrostaves used by those IG-100 Manga guards of General Grevious... GL literally forgets, doesn't know or care concerning these things and his visions have no continuity anymore. They're on the fly, sporadic, and on the whim.

Neat ships. =D

My favourite character is Thrawn (next Han Solo of course ;) When I learned about that Timothy Zahn writes the Outbound Flight I was so excited, and when it was translated to my motherlanguage it was my first thing to do is buy the book. And wow, Zahn put some awesome story around the trade federation. I didn't read the obi-wan, anakin storyline, simply didn't cared about it. That's the result, when a really creative person have an opportunity to do something. That would be so good that it would be in the Clone Wars series, but knowing the old f**** (GL) it is just a dream.

The Mandalorian storyline is a bad Joke, that thing is a "darksaber?" No comment. I imagined Lucas's thought that "Hmmm, Boba Fett was popular, let's put in the Clone Wars 200 more...!" Bioware do much better job too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpvkC294HuU This 4 minute clip has more emotion, and story than the 8 hour prequels together.