I took the leap and started watching the final season of The Bad Batch before all the episodes are available, and I might write a bit about it as I watch. So far I’ve seen the first four episodes.
Is it worth admitting here that the first two seasons were rough? I didn’t like that the Batch took over the first section of the final season of The Clone Wars and that colored my first impressions of the show. I liked the initial bounty hunter angle but that was sherlocked by The Mandalorian. The whole “Band of Brothers with a kid” angle that replaced it never really gelled for me, and so right up through the middle of the second season, I wasn’t sure I understood what the show was about. I also found the Batch itself, a bit lopsided: Hunter was dour, Tech did everything, Echo who should have been their clone-astromech (which would have been very cool) didn’t do anything, and the Crosshair side-plot always felt like a completely separate story.
But there were also so many great episodes and sequences: the destruction of Kamino, the pod race, every single episode involving Rex or other clones. Plus I liked Wrecker … a lot. By the end of the second season, I’d been won over, was on-board and hoping for more.
Now we’ve got one, and it’s the final one, and that’s maybe too bad, because this season (the art I mean) looks great, and the stakes seem clearer and more focused. I know what I’m rooting for. Plus Asajj! So my hopes are sky high for what’s coming over the next couple months…and that makes me nervous… o.o
More soon…
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