So its free form kind of like The marvel comics.

I wish they would make a series like that, crazy and off the wall, but that was back when they did not care about canon. But they were hindered by Lucasfilm in a lot of their ideas. And while some of it was good a lot of it was terrible.

They should do a star wars series of films that completely chucks continuity out the window, kind of like star trek 2009 but even more daring.

I would agree somewhat that they have more leeway in this series, but it still feels as if their is a general outline they are following and Lucas reigns in some of their more wild ideas.
The most wild idea which is really lame to me is darth maul's brother, supposedly a story idea Katie Lucas came up with.

I just hope they don't bring in jar jar's lost brother who can speak normal non broken English and who is intelligent.