Talking About 'Star Wars': Are Star Wars animated series only placeholder canon until the movies decide what actually happened during that time frame?

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Are Star Wars animated series only placeholder canon until the movies decide what actually happened during that time frame?
No. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and Star Wars: Resistance are coequal in canon to the live-action films. Especially Star Wars: The Clone Wars, because that series was created and executive produced by George Lucas and was the last Star Wars content he personally oversaw.
The only animated series that meets the “placeholder” criteria is the 2003–2005 Star Wars: Clone Wars 2-D micro-series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and co-produced by Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network.
Intended as a means to bridge the three-year in-universe gap between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Tartakovsky’s series was just one of many elements in Lucasfilm’s multimedia Clone Wars campaign, as well as a backdoor pilot to George Lucas’s CGI animated series. Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
In the early days of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Lucasfilm’s official stance was that the new CGI show was organically linked to its 2-D precursor. Dave Filoni, the 2008–2014 series’ supervising director and now head of Lucasfilm Animation, admits that many of the design ideas in The Clone Wars drew their inspiration from Tartakovsky’s micro-series. At one point, it was stated that The Clone Wars took place between Chapters 21 and 25 of Star Wars: Clone Wars.
Lucasfilm altered its position on the canonicity of Star Wars: Clone Wars after it became a subsidiary company of The Walt Disney Company. In 2014, the same year that the Lucasfilm Story Group announced that instead of the earlier multi-tiered canon setup that defined which stories were part of the “real” Star Wars mythology and which weren’t, there would now be a single and clearly defined canon.
As far as filmed content is concerned, Star Wars canon is made up of:
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars: Resistance
The Anthology films, which include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo: A Star Wars Story
Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian TV series
Plus, of course, any other future Star Wars movies, be they new Trllogies outside of the Skywalker Saga or future stand-alone anthology films
If you watch any of the post-Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, you’ll note that the writers strive hard to link their stories to the live-action films. There have even been crossovers between both genres since 2014: In Star Wars Rebels, which chronicles the early days of the Rebellion, Billy Dee Williams lent his voice to an animated version of Lando Calrissian, while Chopper and the Ghost have “if you blink you’ll miss them” cameos in Rogue One. (And to emphasize the canonicity of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels, the cameo of Maul in Solo: A Star Wars Story should put a kibosh on the notion that the animated series are mere “placeholder” stories.

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