In Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ fifth season, the Young Jedi arc focuses on a group of younglings traveling to harvest kyber crystals and create lightsabers when they are pulled into adventures with pirates and Separatists on their journey. As CinemaBlend reports, Pablo Hidalgo explained in a series of 2016 tweets that the Young Jedi arc was originally going to be edited together to create a pilot for a spin-off television series. While the spin-off did not come to fruition, the concept is still solid. Lucasfilm and Disney could revisit this idea and create an animated or live-action television show focused on the Padawans and younglings of the High Republic era.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Young Jedi arc takes great strides in expanding viewers' knowledge of the training Jedi underwent during the prequel era. The arc follows Byph, Ganodi, Gungi, Katooni, Petro and Zatt as they prepare for the next steps in their training. In "The Gathering," the arc's first episode, audiences learn that younglings must travel to Ilum's Crystal Caves to harvest kyber crystals for their lightsabers. The next episode, "A Test of Strength," introduces Huyang, a droid who has overseen the construction of Jedi lightsabers for hundreds of years. He explains to the young Jedi how they will design and construct their own lightsabers. The rest of the arc mainly follows the young Jedi dealing with Hondo Ohnaka and his pirates. In the arc's climax, the younglings must work together with the pirates to evade General Grievous. While the arc after the first episode is more focused on action, there are still moments dedicated to the young Jedi achieving training milestones.

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A series focused on these younglings during the Clone Wars timeline, as originally intended, could still work. The characters are engaging, and the arc works as a good pitch for future adventures. However, any Star Wars series focused on Padawans during the prequel era has the dark shadows of Order 66 and Anakin Skywalker's massacre of younglings and Padawans hanging over it. While the series might begin as a more lighthearted magical school story, it inevitably would end in tragedy.

Still, the Padawans concept could work in other eras as well. Series focused on younger Jedi already have flourished in the Legends canon. For example, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta’s Young Jedi Knights and Junior Jedi Knights series focused on Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo's children and their friends training at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 during the New Republic era. Jude Watson’s Jedi Apprentice series focused on Obi-Wan Kenobi's training with Qui-Gon Jinn in the prequel era. These series were essential in expanding the lore on the training and growth of young Jedi knights throughout the timeline of the Legends continuity.

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In the current Star Wars canon, the Star Wars: The High Republic subseries has a multi-generational marketing approach, and Padawans and younglings are a cornerstone of their focus on content for all ages. Currently, the subseries includes picture books, middle-grade novels, young adult novels and all-ages comic book series focused on children and young adult readers. So far, Justina Ireland's Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage focused on young Jedi knight Vernestra Rwoh, Padawan Imri Cantaros and other young children as they evaded Nihil terrorists. Claudia Gray's Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark focused on teen and adult characters, but Padawan Reath Silas and Byne Guild member Affie Hollow were the two of the main protagonists in the novel.

Most relevantly, Daniel José Older’s Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures has a strong focus on Lula Talisola and her Padawan and youngling friends studying with Master Yoda. A Padawans series incorporating any or all of these characters would be a strong addition to the new canon and expand upon viewers' knowledge of Jedi training in the High Republic era.

Overall, a Padawans television series could still be amazing in any era. Magical school series, in general, are popular with young audiences, and a Padawans television series could fill that niche in the new Star Wars canon. However, the High Republic subseries already has a strong groundwork that could easily be transformed into the television medium. While the novels and comic books focusing on the High Republic era are amazing in their own right, these characters could easily make the jump to television screens, giving a new generation of Jedi their time in the spotlight.

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