User blog comment:The Dark Lord of the Sith/Reviving "The Clone Wars" - Help Wanted/@comment-25562896-20141022024439/@comment-3298705-20141022064901

Well, the official description I've written for Season Eight (again, not gonna be working on it until Season Seven is done) is as follows:

"The dark side tightens its grip on the galaxy in the waning days of the Clone Wars as the Outer Rim Sieges begin. The Jedi Order makes finding and discovering the identity of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious its highest priority. Meanwhile, Chancellor Palpatine puts the next stage of his plan for galactic domination into motion."

So basically Season Eight would focus on the Outer Rim Sieges, and maybe bring the Separatist leaders (Nute Gunray, Wat Tambor, Poggle the Lesser, etc.) back into the picture as a sort of subplot or backdrop, but the main focus is Darth Sidious and his decision to make Anakin his new apprentice. General Grievous plays a much more prominent role and is a much more dangerous protagonist; Season Eight is to conclude with a re-imagined version of the invasion of Coruscant, in which Palpatine is kidnapped. The end of the last episode of Season Eight leads directly into the opening of Episode III: Anakin and Obi-Wan arrive from a mission in the Outer Rim right in the middle of the Battle of Coruscant. The duo exchanges the following dialogue:

Obi-Wan: I have a bad feeling about this. Anakin: This is where the fun begins.

We then see the Battle of Coruscant raging on, and it is assumed from here that immediately after the credits would role that Episode III would begin, Anakin and Obi-Wan in their fighters and heading towards Grievous's ship to rescue Palpatine.

So basically, Season Eight is going to be less about revealing the fates of particular characters (something I'm hesitant to do for major characters like Rex, since it's possible Dave Filoni will want to include such characters in Star Wars: Rebels) and more about leading into the story of Revenge of the Sith.

That in mind, I'd be thrilled to have yet another person to work with! Leave a message on my talk page whenever you have an idea; perhaps we could meet on the Wiki's IRC sometime and have a "developer's chat."