If this was part of a feature release shown at the cinema I wouldn’t blink twice, the animation is visually stunning and the music feels appropriately Star Wars-y – the only downside is when it comes to characters, they’re a bit hit and miss and can feel a bit emotionally stiff, but I’m largely impressed by the results. Running 70 minutes in length, The Bad Batch’s pilot didn’t feel that long at all, boasting the big budget required to make its animation look so spectacularly cinematic.
It turns out that those separatists aren’t droids, but civilians – and again, save for one, they disobey orders. It’s nothing new for the Bad Batch, who find themselves questioning orders when they’re asked to take care of some separatists under Tarkin’s request. This means that they’re pushed aside and shunted into a corner, loathed by the rest of the Clones who view them as deformed outcasts. The Bad Batch themselves haven’t had any implants the same way the regular clones have, save for one – the Marskman, Crosshair, and as a result, are spared the brainwashed messages of Order 66. That suggests that we won’t be seeing more of him in the show, but it was a cool easter egg and a way to set the ball rolling whilst understandably lacking the devastating take on Order 66 that The Clone Wars captured with its character-driven approach to spectacle. In a cool feature that will appease Rebels fans if not those of the original Kanan comic run that was one of the first post-Marvel acquisition Star Wars titles (if you haven't read it yet, please do!), we get to see Kanan show up as a younger Jedi and witness Order 66 and the betrayal of the Clones that led him to believe, all these years later, that he never met a Clone he could trust after that.
#Bad batch aftermath review series#
Here, we return to the group of unorthodox Clones, who whilst admittedly I wasn’t particularly a massive fan of their story arc in the original Clone Wars series, moving events forward to Order 66 in the wake of the final season of that series really leaves a hallmark – with the group of characters having to adjust to the world that doesn’t want them, a world where Clones are feared, and hated by the Jedi that they used to protect.
#Bad batch aftermath review movie#
The Bad Batch is the latest addition to the quality label of Star Wars animation that we’ve had over the past few years – Resistance perhaps aside as a rather small blemish – a real marked turnaround from the early days of The Clone Wars and the movie that led to its creation. The Bad Batch 1.01: " Aftermath" - Review:
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