Given The Bad Batch’s place in the Star Wars timeline, it can’t help but make several connections to what else is happening in the galaxy far, far away, but what can be emotionally satisfying can also be somewhat distracting.Īt 71 minutes, the first episode of The Bad Batch, titled “Aftermath,” feels more like a movie than an episode of television, although it is officially categorized as the latter. The Bad Batch opens itself up to fascinating new territory: What does it mean for these clones to witness their brethren unquestioningly following orders to commit truly horrific acts?īut for all of its new ground it covers, it’s also caught in some of the same trappings that many of the more recent Star Wars stories have fallen into. Set amid the emerging Galactic Empire and a world that discourages any kind of individualism or thinking outside of the box, it quickly becomes clear that Clone Force 99 won’t fit into the cogs of the Empire’s machine. The Bad Batch’s super-sized premiere introduces a ton of intrigue as it explores an aspect of a Galactic Empire we haven’t seen before.
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