After all, both The Clone Wars and Rebels spanned multiple years before coming to their ends, although Rebels notably ended shortly before the original trilogy began, and showrunner Dave Filoni explained his understandable reasons why.
Time will tell if the new batch of Clone Wars episodes will advance into the time of or beyond Revenge of the Sith.
Naturally, a big question that will be on the minds of Star Wars fans is whether Resistance’s place so soon ahead of The Force Awakens means that the show could eventually extend into the timeline of the movies.