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Instead of having three live action prequel films made in the 1990's by George Lucas, the story of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and this era is told through an animated television series of the time.
You can bet that Carrie Fisher would return as writer and Mark Hamill as a voice actor. There are many roles he could fill.Instead of having three live action prequel films made in the 1990's by George Lucas, the story of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and this era is told through an animated television series of the time.
Instead of having three live action prequel films made in the 1990's by George Lucas, the story of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and this era is told through an animated television series of the time.
Second remark: Animation in the 1980's was still mostly children's fare with titles like "He-man, master of the universe". So either George Lukas would willingly admit that the Star Wars saga was destined for children from the outset, thereby practically killing off all fandom. Or he would have to make a more mature Anime-style series with more fleshed-out and 'grown-up" stories as well as animation. In order to keep his fan base he would have to come up with something Mijasaki's Studio Ghibli would have done in 2000... In 1987. The butterflies for Mijasaki himself and anime in general would be enormous.
With "... In the 1980's", I assume it would be after the release of "Return of the Jedi" (1983) so somewhere between 1985 and 1989, at a time when there still was a Soviet Union, a cold war and a World Trade Center with two towers.
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The 80s? That's a time when many US cartoons are continuity-lite (an age pre-wikis and when not everyone has a video recorder) and syndication is the main business model. The prequels would have a specific end point and be expected to meet it, so you've already got a cartoon to kickstart a more serialised, continuity-heavy age of toons.
Robotech, Thundersub and Transformers are examples from the 80ths that had continuity
Robotech, true, and I don't know about Thundersub but that's the outlier - for Robotech, that's because it was an anime dub and Japan made their cartoons differently. Transformers started to have some in S3 but up until then, continuity was pretty threadbare. We're expecting Star Wars here to be more like Robotech than anything American and before Robotech does it first. That's a ballsy move.