Star Wars: The Bad Batch

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

It does seem like a strange choice for a spinoff. Of all the things they could have done or people to focus on... let's just make up a group of some random tough guy clones and make a show about them?

It's literally just the same show just with a bunch of generic clones as the main characters, so naturally it feels more boring. But the actual missions/stories are pretty similar to Clone Wars, but it feels less interesting to watch simply because you won't care about the main cast much.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I didn't watch this show at all. I wouldn't mind rewatching Clone Wars and Rebels at some point though.....

I could definitely imagine myself rewatching this stuff down the line. Again, there's a lot of easily skippable Clone Wars episodes (can't speak to Rebels yet) but wow, there is some really amazing episodes and arcs here and there, and along the way they keep getting better and better. I'm almost done with season 6 and I'm loving every minute now.

Like most recently the arc I saw was Mace Windu and Jar Jar teaming up to investigate some troubles with people disappearing on a planet. On paper, that sounds ridiculous. But they made it work and amazingly well!

Also I notice as Clone Wars goes on... there is markedly less C3PO in it. Did they just get tired of dealing with Anthony Daniels?

[Andrew NDB]

Watched the whole first season premiere. Eh. OK. I can kind of see Filoni doing his thing with the one mandated by Disney female clone thing. It really feels like a mixmatch of children's cartoon TV stuff with adult fare. Sometimes it's pretty raw and sometimes it's pretty kiddy. That out of the way, I saw the whole first episode. Which is an hour plus. Not bad! It kinda walks us through the clones to Stormtroopers era which is an interesting era for sure.

[Andrew NDB]

Made it into season 2 already. The stuff at the end of season 1 was really good! I don't know why I never even once wondered what happened to Kamino and the Kaminoans after the Clone Wars... this answers it: the Empire completely annihilates all installations on Kamino! The threat being, of course, that with the Empire cancelling their clone contract the Kaminoans could create an army for somebody else. Makes sense.

Sometimes Omega makes things really silly but sometimes she works. I think if she was reconceptualized (even if just made a bit older) and maybe if they didn't make Wrecker as this caricature of a "dumb strongman with a heart of gold" they'd have a much stronger show.

[Autbot_Benz]

[Andrew NDB]

Next month already? Sweet! Do they drop the whole season or what?

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Next month already? Sweet! Do they drop the whole season or what?

3 Episode Premiere Feb 21st than one a week I think

[IMJ]

I'm surprised this show has any legs to be honest. But I guess it's an acceptable level of Star Wars as "something to watch"....

[Drose18]

Can't wait this looks great. Pretty sad that this is the final season. Hopefully Tales of the Jedi returns so we can get more Clone Wars animated shows following this.

Hope the Bad Batch can make it alive out of this one.

[CyberCubed]

This is the final season. This show is much weaker than the previous two, but I kinda expected it when the main characters are literal who's. Thankfully it's pretty short in comparison.

[Andrew NDB]

Saw the series finale. Kind of flat. There wasn't any surprises at all (unless you count them un-doing a semi-redemption) and the Bad Batch's plan pretty much went according to plan. Nobody died except who you might expect. All the hubbub about Project Necromancer and it's just destroyed and they don't really salvage anything from it. All we're to get from it is, I guess... maybe this shows the direction some efforts were going, way back? And maybe one day years later they'll resume and get better results? It's all overall super unsatisfying. And the epilogue mostly to propel Omega as an adult Rebel pilot... cool, but, where's the other clones? What happened to them? This is just to prop her up now?

[CyberCubed]

Yeah this was the worst of the 3 Star Wars cartoons in general. I still don't know why they made 3 seasons of this, the whole story could have been told in one season. It was just the characters going on one generic mission after another with Omega getting captured every other story arc.

[Andrew NDB]

The stuff with the Empire attacking Kamino and the Emperor using that as a springboard to retire the clones and create the Stormtroopers was pretty brilliant. But that's about it. There just wasn't enough of a hook with this show.