![]() ![]() Star Wars Rebels, which Filoni co-created with Simon Kinberg and Carrie Beck, went through a similar progression. The series didn’t really hit its stride until season 2, when the team began delivering standout episodes like the epic action of “Landing at Point Rain,” or the deeply personal drama of “The Deserter.” Many of the first-season episodes involve pretty cutesy plots, like Anakin trying to find R2-D2, or Jar Jar Binks being mistaken for a Jedi. While The Clone Wars became a sophisticated series that delivered war-movie action, introduced beloved new characters, and provided strong development for the prequels’ heroes and villains, it started out with a much more juvenile tone, just like Bad Batch.Īnakin Skywalker’s padawan Ahsoka Tano begins The Clone Wars as a 14-year-old who’s just been sent out into the field, and she acts as a relatable stand-in for the audience, letting them learn about the nature of the galactic conflict from the same perspective as younger viewers. Hopefully, this is just the latest manifestation of a pattern that’s stretched across the Star Wars animated shows helmed by Dave Filoni. ![]() Omega quickly forms a bond with the Bad Batch’s leader Hunter (voiced, like all of the clone soldiers by the wildly talented Dee Bradley Baker) and winds up running off with the squad to effectively serve as his adopted daughter and sidekick. The pilot introduces Omega (Michelle Ang), a mysterious, precocious young girl raised in the cloning facility on the planet Kamino. The show could potentially make a lot of highly relevant commentary about soldiers fighting in unjust wars for an increasingly authoritarian state, but the first two episodes of The Bad Batch are mostly focused on trying to make a show about a group of grim, heavily armed veterans feel kid-friendly. As the new Galactic Empire begins solidifying its control, the squad begins challenging orders and bucking Imperial leadership. The members of the Bad Batch are largely unaffected, due to their unique natures, leaving them to question whether the destruction of the Jedi Order is justified. Star Wars: The Bad Batch, which premieres on Disney Plus on May 4 (aka “Star Wars Day,” because “May the 4th be with you”), picks up almost exactly where The Clone Wars ended, with the execution of Order 66 activating control-chip implants that force the clone troopers to turn on their Jedi leaders. ![]() While The Clone Wars wrapped up its plotlines and its titular conflict between the Jedi and the Separatists led by Count Dooku and General Grievous in its final season, the unit nicknamed The Bad Batch provided an opportunity to continue The Clone Wars’ focus on the lives of soldiers in a galaxy gripped by seemingly endless war. The first episode of the 2020 revival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars introduced Clone Force 99, a squad of elite clone commandos with experimental mutations that made them stand out among the clone warriors created to defend the Galactic Republic from the Confederacy of Independent Systems. ![]()
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