I have been thinking about this for a few days, and I want some honest opinion on this. (IMPORTANT: If you disagree with what I’m pitching, please be CIVIL about it in the comments. Please?)
As we know, the High Republic Era of Star Wars has been getting more and more exposure. From its initial Novels (like The Light of the Jedi), to elements of it in the video game: Jedi Survivor. And currently there are two shows sent in the High Republic Era right now: the Young Jedi Adventures and the Acolyte (the latter being at the very tail-end of the era). But I think that it is time for an animated series in the same style as Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Rebels and The Bad Batch. I believe a show like that could be very interesting and successful (given the right amount of time and care).
My Rough Pitch: The show is set during the Nihil War, and follows a pair of Jedi, a newly minted Master and Apprentice paring. Literally on their first mission together, BOOM… the Stormwall gets activated and Occlusion Zone goes up. The Master and Apprentice are now stuck behind the wall, and they can’t contact for the Jedi and the Republic on the other side for help.
Now they have to survive in the Nihil Space, finding allies, helping out planets that are being sacked/ devastated by the Nihil and other adventures like that… all the while having the Master teach their Apprentice the ways of the Force. The main bad guy of the show could even by a Tempest Runner.
I think that an animated story like this could be very compelling, allowing us to see undiscovered parts of the Outer Rim and have a change for interesting situations and character development. A good candidate for who the Jedi Master in show to follow is Santari Khri (who is already pre-established from Jedi Survivor). She and the Apprentice could get off on a rocky start, but could grow together, get a good friendship going and learn to fight together. Maybe even show her mindset post-Dagan Gera. That would be pretty sweet.
I feel like an animated format would be the best considering the scale and scope of what we could see. Also, we know that animation style of Clone Wars/Rebels/Bad Batch could be simply beautiful.
Giving the extreme polarizing/negative reception of the Acolyte, there have been some rumors of the entire High Republic Era potentially being cancelled. I don’t want that to happen. There’s still plenty room for interesting, compelling stories to be told in this Era still. This could be one of them. What do you think. Obviously, you need talented/compelling writers/creatives to work on it and have a good about of creative oversight with a clear goal in mind (Dave Filoni-style), but I think something like this could be very interesting.
But what do you guys think? Should they or should then not do something like this? Leave a comment below. (BUT PLEASE BE CIVIL ABOUT IT).