According to the best (i.e., basically the first) timeline I could find, three short "Tales of ..." episodes fit into the gap between The Acolyte and The Phantom Menace, so I watched those tonight: two "Tales of the Jedi" episodes featuring Count Dooku and one "Tales of the Underworld" episode about the street-rat childhood of a character I presume ends up being Cad Bane. (Or maybe not, as a Cad-Bane-esque gangster manipulates the kid into becoming part of his operation.)
The Dooku stories follow him through two vignettes that instill or compound his alienation from the politics of the Senate, as both feature corrupt senators who enrich themselves off the suffering of their people and call on the Jedi for help.
The proto-Cad-Bane episode was one I hadn't seen before, as I've never gotten around to watching "Tales of the Underworld." The two urchins recruited into the gangster's schemes seem to live a pretty happy-go-lucky existence scrounging through trash and stealing fruit from a hapless droid. Like the Dooku episodes, it's clearly intended for a younger audience than some of the more substantial animated shows. There's very little suffering visible in the homeless kids' existence; they dig around in garbage for food, but don't actually complain much about being hungry or uncomfortable sleeping outdoors, and manage to consistently entertain themselves, running around and giggling through large portions of the story. Presumably things will get a little harder for the character I assume is Cad Bane, since he ends up alone with the gangsters after his friend gets nabbed by the police. The timeline, makes it appear the story continues with an episode set between TPM and AOTC, and another between AOTC and ROTS. We'll see if it develops any more depth.
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