Jedi: Survivor prequel novel coming
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Well, looks like I was wrong since The Mandalorian starts on March 1. Still, probably won't get Ahsoka until the summer at the earliest anyways.
I guess this means it wasn't the Bad Batch they were worried about suffering during the overlap, but Andor. Since there's apparently no concern about overlapping with Mando.
LucasFilm has released descriptions for the D+ shows releasing in 2023
https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2022/12/star-wars-content-2023.html
Bad Batch Season 2
Mando Season 3
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
Visions Season 2
Ahsoka
Skeleton Crew
https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2022/12/star-wars-content-2023.html
Bad Batch Season 2
Mando Season 3
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
Visions Season 2
Ahsoka
Skeleton Crew
Anyone else getting Star Trek Prodigy vibes from Skeleton Crew?
Could be. I'm not sure though, the High Republic books already have a lot of stories centred on teenagers, a lot of them with ships, some flying the Jedi around, and while none of them completely lost (except for A Test of Courage for some duration), I'm sensing this will be different.
First thing that popped in to my mind.
The two franchises have been feeding off and cross pollinating each other since Star Wars started it! 
Well, the première of Prodigy felt like Clone Wars.
Just a random thought, there’s been a few jump to live action versions of the animated/comic characters lately- Ahsoka, Cad Bane, Krrsantan, soon to be Hera, Ezra, Thrawn etc
Do you think a live action Bad Batch would even be possible? One of them at least. You’d have to de-age Temuera Morrison, maybe desize him (sorry) but also make him look “different” as they’re not proper clones..
Would it be better to just use different actors?
I don’t think it’ll happen, certainly not anytime soon, just wondering. I do wonder what their ultimate fate will be in the timeline though, and for Omega
Do you think a live action Bad Batch would even be possible? One of them at least. You’d have to de-age Temuera Morrison, maybe desize him (sorry) but also make him look “different” as they’re not proper clones..
Would it be better to just use different actors?
I don’t think it’ll happen, certainly not anytime soon, just wondering. I do wonder what their ultimate fate will be in the timeline though, and for Omega
What came to my mind more was the back half of that younglings arc on Clone Wars.
Not impossible, but also tricky considering they're essentially mutant clones. Echo is the only one that is actually supposed to look like Morrison (albeit covered in cybernetics, which incidentally should help disguise any need for de-aging), while the others vary quite wildly in terms of face shape.
So perhaps a better approach would be to find a bunch of Maori blokes that sort of look like Temuera (as one might go about casting members of the same family) but with distinctive features that may or may not ben exaugurated with prosthetics. If they want to get really convoluted and fancy about it, they could composite a hybrid-deepfake/cg head replacement layer onto their faces to really make them look more like Temuera.
All that said, that's a LOT of fuss to go through, so they'd need a very good reason to do so. Honestly I think we're much more likely to see easily realised characters like Omega, Rex, Cody, Wolffe, Gregor, Boss etc.
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Wasn't there also an arc with children rebels? Something in-between them. (I wasn't too fond of how that one was written.)
You mean the Onderon arc? Or the bit where Ezra infiltrated the Imperial Academy as a junior cadet? The former were mostly Ahsoka's age (roughly 17 at the time) so teens/young adults, while the latter were naturally more Ezra's age (14-15 or thereabouts.) I think the characters from the academy arc were spun-off into a series of books aimed at primary school age readers; no clue what the plot was about but I think something from the got a namedrop in Andor.
Either way I don't think either really match the description; they're not stranded on a ship, left to their own devices for one.
For a series set in the interim between Episode 3 and 4 the Bad Batch might work. But for the era of the Mandalorian? If they survived that long, they were all look like they are in their 70 or 80s due to the double aging that clones have. While this is also true of Rex, Temuera Morrison could that Echo in a lot of prosthetics, and maybe Tech. Hunter, and definitely Wrecker would have to be someone else. Crosshairs, if still around and not Imperial, would also have to be someone else. Though it be interesting to see who they would cast as an adult Omega in her late 30s or early 40s. (One remembers that Boba Fett is in his early 40s in The Book of Boba Fett. I imagine he looks more like Jengo did in Attack of the Clones prior to ending up in the Sarlacc.)
Found it after some searching. The Iron Squadron
Yeah, I'd forgotten about Iron Squdron. I guess it's not an entirely dissimilar concept in that it's a bunch of kids on a ship. That said the idea is that they deliberately took the ship and set out to play at being rebels, but quickly got way in over their heads. They would literally have gotten themselves killed had people that actually knew what they were doing not shown up to rescue them. So not really the same kind of story. Less a "coming of age adventure" and more of a "trying to grow up too quickly" cautionary tale.
