Now that the final season is over, we thought it was the perfect time to sit down and talk about why The Bad Batch worked so well, both as a spin-off and as a sequel to The Clone Wars Star Wars Series Have your own voice.
After the debut of Clone Troopers’ final season, Clone Troopers 99, and the rapid announcement of its spin-off series, expectations for Clone Wars weren’t exactly high. There is another A screen story about the terror and oppressive reign of the Galactic Empire that’s an over-the-top view Star Wars Timeline. However, there’s an interesting angle to telling the sudden transition from the Republic to the Empire through the eyes of the clone troopers, who had nowhere to go after the war ended. Are they anything more than soldiers carrying out orders? What happens after there are no more orders to follow?
While the three-season series doesn’t quite reach the heights of Clone Wars and Rebels at their peak, there’s no doubt that it’s a compelling piece of work that only grows in weight as its central plot progresses. The heavier. Additionally, it adds a lot to the larger Star Wars mythology and helps paint a clearer picture of what really happened after the fall of Star Wars. Jedi Order. There are four points in the conversation about the series that deserve more attention, and we’ll break them down below.
Before we dissect some of the best elements of The Bad Batch , we want to remind you that besides acolyte and skeleton crewDisney+ also received a new Four LEGO Star Wars Special Editions This year. Additionally, gamers can take immediate action Star Wars: Hunters and Star Wars: Desperados this summer.
Warning: Spoilers for “The Bad Batch” (all seasons)
We finally see the early days of the Galactic Empire
We all know how evil Emperor Palpatine’s empire was, but we’ve never really seen on screen (big or small) how it emerged from the ashes of the Republic. revenge of the sith Its early days are depicted, but its focus is elsewhere, on the major figures behind the galactic upheaval. Likewise, the final arc of Clone Wars presents Ahsoka and Captain Rex’s struggle to fight their former battle-brothers and escape the newly formed Empire. Meanwhile, The Bad Batch is the first movie or TV series ever to truly capture what was happening in the galaxy as the Republic reorganized into the Galactic Empire.
Jedi series of video games, two of which The best Star Wars game evera good representation of the Empire at its peak long ago AndorRogue One , and A New Hope take place — that is, years before an actual Resistance Alliance is formed. Except for Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi Seriesthey do a great job of showing how things deteriorated under the Empire’s iron fist. However, they don’t tell us how such vast power structures were established throughout the galaxy. Imagine how much manpower and resources it would take to achieve even half of Palpatine’s lofty goals.
In The Bad Batch, the three-season story is allowed to breathe and expand on the ground floor of the Star Wars universe. Its first season in particular showed us a very different side of things surrounding Order 66 and the destruction of Kamino. After all the chaos and confusion, the transition from clone army to recruiting force was slow. Many senators and the entire system were opposed to such a sudden power play by Palpatine, regardless of his Jedi-related excuses. It’s been one of the most volatile times in the Star Wars franchise, and we still can’t believe it took this long for us to finally see it on our screens.
The fate of most clone troopers explained
As we just mentioned, one of the Empire’s most pressing problems is replacing cheaper human recruits from across the vast galaxy with clones. Thanks to a well-oiled propaganda machine, and through rapid action against the populations of the Core and Middle Rim worlds, the Empire was able to quickly expand its ranks and gain control of the entire galaxy before they could launch an organized resistance movement.
Meanwhile, clones or commandos who don’t hold senior positions (who stay on the ship for a while as leaders of inexperienced recruits) are pushed aside without any retirement benefits. Of course, traitors to the Empire were also persecuted and executed. We weren’t kidding when we said that one of the best storylines in Bad Batch directly involved clone troopers fighting over a pension plan and uncovering a larger conspiracy in the process. Eventually, most of the clones who didn’t join the rebel group either became hired guns or took low-paying jobs wherever possible.
Organized rebellion did not become a reality until much later…
Another highlight of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, especially as the larger story progresses, is the fact that while we see the original Rebels, there’s a complete lack of organized rebellion and coordination among the rebels . Many groups, including Saw Gerrera’s enduring guerrillas, soon took up arms against the Empire, however, it was not until much later that this all coalesced into the Rebel Alliance, as we see in Andor and Star Wars Rebels.
The titular “Bad Batch” are also hard to fit in, always feeling conflicted about whether they should do more to fight the Empire or simply try to disappear and live a quiet life for whatever time they have left How long (remember, regular clones age very quickly). Money problems often push them into criminal pursuits, but time and time again their paths lead them to old friends who try to shake things up and more dangerous missions that put them in danger.
A refreshing change for Star Wars is that, with the exception of Tek, who died in the season two finale, the main group of characters were able to move away from the war and settle down after saving Omega and the other clones from the Empire. The larger Star Wars story is a generational thing, and in the epilogue, the Omegas choose to continue rebelling against the Empire (possibly teasing subsequent series), but the original “Bad Batch” manage to find peace and become more than just soldiers . As we know, the Milky Way would be just fine without them.
It planted the seeds for Palpatine’s resurrection
Omega is perhaps the most fascinating character in the series. First, she was originally a female clone of Jango Fett, raised by Kaminoan scientist Nora Se in order to aid her in Tipoca City. Later, we also learn that she is one of only two “pure genetic copies” of Jango Fett, the other being the famous bounty hunter Boba Fett (alpha). The brave Omega may still be on the prowl after Civil War ends, which opens up some interesting possibilities for the Fett family.
Later we learned that Omega was not only A female clone created by Jango Fett; she has a sister, Emery Carr, a clone scientist who chose to work for the Empire – although Omega appears to be the only “pure replica” the Empire can track, This makes her value different from Emery. This leads to what gradually becomes a huge mystery in the second half of the series: the Necromancer Project. This was a top-secret operation to “decipher” how to give Emperor Palpatine a backup body that could connect to the midi-chlorians and thus use the Force. Omega’s creation holds the key to successfully transferring microscopic life forms into replicating bodies.
The rise of skywalker Showing us that this plan has been decades in the making; this Eternal Sith The cult of Exegol has been working to create a body adequate for the Phantom Emperor – an Emperor capable of transferring his soul into a vessel that looks like him and can even use the Force, but not powerful enough to survive on his own. If Dr. Royce Hemlock succeeds on Wayland, Sheev Palpatine’s return will be faster and more dangerous. However, much of his research did survive and helped the Sith Eternal Cult bring him back several years later and after the disintegration of his empire.
back The Mandalorian teases dark plans have begunand some of the technology used was also used by other Imperial warlords to devise their own wild plans, which was the final piece of the puzzle we were missing. In true Star Wars style, poorly explained plot points end up developing somewhere else, and we eventually learn that in “Somehow, Palpatine is back.”