Star Wars:The Bad Batch
"Good Soldiers follow orders"
- – Clone Trooper CT-9904 "Crosshair"
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The A-Team of Star Wars but with the plot of Three Men and a Baby (1987).
The Bad Batch follows the exploits of Clone Force 99, a team of clone troopers with advantageous genetic defects. They're the Republic's meta Kill Team, complete with Slasha Boy, Snipa Boy, Breacha Boy, Comms Boy, Mek Boy, and a useless whiny Grot endearing little tagalong named Omega.
YE BE WARNED, THAR BE SKUB AHOY
Omega is a clone. A comparatively old, early clone that wasn't subjected to age acceleration. Also she's a gurl.
Yes, apparently early in the development of the clone troopers the Kaminoans got weird and decided to try making a sex-flipped Jango. So she's a leftover lab experiment that is apparently important for reasons. But she's blond and stupid so her extra X-chromosome is probably from Maketh Tua. So she's pretty much Star War's equivalent of X-23/Laura Kinney, but without fighting skills, powers or anything that made X-23 cool...alright, she HAS gotten an energy bow and seems to have inherited Jango's shooting skills to a point, but still not nearly as awesome as X-23.
Season 1[edit | edit source]
The first season is mostly a sixteen episode escort quest with a lot of side-quests thrown in. This stuff drags the show a bit, and it was the biggest complaint for the first season: it seems to just meander and have no real plot, and it comes across as having no endpoint in mind.
That being said, the show shines with Crosshair, the best written character in the show by far, and do an excellent job worldbuilding as always, being that Filoni is in charge and Emperor Kennedy is nowhere near it. The sequels are coping and seething over how shit their worldbuilding is compared to some of this season's more interesting episodes. The clones are excellent as always, and while this is an animated show, kids are simply not the target audience: the politics and content is very mature in the "everything is changing" kind of way, including moments of grimdarkery that include torching innocents alive, the horrific murder of a Jedi and scarring of her padawan, and plenty of murders committed by Crosshair.
Similar to Rebels before it, not as beloved as The Clone Wars, but also better than Resistance. Your tolerance threshold for gullible tagalong kids and sidequests will probably inform how much you like this one.
Season 2[edit | edit source]
Is in the works and will be out in January of 2023. Stay tuned...
UPDATE: First few episodes have dropped. Mostly side-quests thus far, but Omega's archery skills have improved considerably, and Commander Cody, who fans had been hoping would show up...finally did. So there's that. Also, we were introduced to a precursor civilization that's ruins are explored in one episode...along with a very Horizon Dawn-looking machine with a built-in superlaser. Riyo Chuchi from TCW is back, and holy hell is she not only a great character but great looking too.
Later episodes focus on the Emperor playing everybody to have the Clonetroopers fully replaced by Stormtroopers, and Crosshairs has some seriously good episodes on his side of that. Rex's rebellion is underway, and the series ends in a cliffhanger involving an Imperial mad scientist, That Kaiju from TCW returning, Saw Guerra fucking things up again, Tech most likely dead, and Omega captured by said scientist.
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