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Tycio wrote: I'd rather they finish clone wars properly before Ep 7.

They'll mostly write off a huge sum of characters, I don't see why not. Hondo gets killed in a fishing accident, Cad Bane stays low for the rest of the clone wars, and Darth Maul's story gets finished in a novel; like they don't already have enough of them. In fact, the WHOLE Darth Maul arc was to promote 'Phantom Menace' 3D and the writers of the show didn't know how to get rid of him. So now they're stuck with this character and make up pointless stories for him, mucking up the SW timeline even more.

Same goes for Ashoka.