Having just meet hours ago. I love how their facial expression mimics each other without either one knowing it.

Can someone confirm if kanan is the padawan at the start of bad batch?

I’ve just watched season 3 of The Bad Batch (I know, very late to the party, but college does that) Going into the season I expected to see Tech again. I’ve noticed a trend in Star Wars, no body no death: Palpatine, Chewie, Echo, etc.

So at the introduction of Hemlock's operatives I was immediately suspicous. I immediately theorized that the operative that takes down Rex's base was either clone of Crosshair or modified using Crosshair, possible connection to his hand tremors, becasuse of his proficiency as a sniper and similar build to Crosshair, but I digress.

At the end of the series we see the Batch and the other rescued clones go against the operatives. At the very end we see one about to kill Echo but Wrecker throws him through a wall electrocuting him. It's only visible for a couple of seconds, but this operative has goggles on his helmet. The only proof of Tech's death is his goggles, which are given by guess who? Hemlock. Like I said in the begining: no body, no death. It stands to reason then that Hemlock retrieved Tech, and in his weakened state, he wasn't able to withstand the conditioning like Crosshair was.

Hope the Batch never finds out about that, but I am glad to see this show is just as "kid-friendly" as the Clone Wars show.

I know the show ended three months ago, but seeing as how some Star Wars expanded media likes to do origin stories of heroes and villains like Ahsoka, Kylo Ren, Kanan, and Thrawn, do you think there will be any expanded media that explores the origins of the Bad Batch? Specifically why their defects were enhanced and how they became a squad in the first place?

When I was watching TBB I noticed that Hemlock always called Emerie by her name or called her "Dr. Karr". He just doesn't seem to know it.

i just got to episode 9 of season 3. i’ve been marveling at the upgrade in animation for this series but didn’t realize it until i switched from my laptop to my nice flatscreen tv with surround sound.

have we ever seen a hand-to-hand comb at scene to the likes of the Matrix in an animated star wars show/movie? i know The Acolyte looks to have a bunch, [speaking of carrie ann moss] but this feels like a first for star wars screen time: to have a martial arts fight that isn’t just wrecker crushing a droid or han solo tossing stormtroopers against each other.

A friend did this write up for me about Bad Batch Season 3. Thoughts?

https://www.latterdaysaintgeeks.com/2024/05/badbatch.html

Finally found Hunter! Now they just need to make a Crosshair

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where can i find more of the concept art, it feels like their isnt a lot available, we never got anything for the cx clones, or the rho shuttles, imperial stations, and other things

The Bad Batch is over and I feel several things. About the show, the characters, the creators, about Star Wars as a franchise. This post is me attempting to process the experience. I'm gonna get specific so watch the thing first.

And to be clear I don't regret watching it. It had so many great moments. I do however regret participating in an internet community while watching the show. The theories and discussions and hype...I let it get in my head. Feel free to talk shit about me in the comments. All my theories were wrong. I did not get a bingo.

!In my opinion the show almost lived up to it. This is the meat of the story and the post. Starting where the last episode really picked up Omega used her droid experience and tactical skills to incapacitate a doctor and break all the children out without anyone noticing. Cool, but ordinary and expected. 5/10. She released the Zillo Beast and used it as a tool to punch a hole through the facility. Literally. That's awesome in concept and very well executed here 10/10. !<

!Then Clone Force 99 walked into a trap. Hemlock's new CX guards hit so so very close to that one theory that CX-2 was a crosshair clone. That one clone that grabbed some wreckage and used it as a shield? Pure Wrecker. They even have that same sort of coordination as the early bad batch fights. Crosshair got the skywalker special which brought the sort of darkness Star Wars sometimes flirts with. I was against the crosshair clone theory then I saw this scene and I was a believer. We were so close to greatness. 9/10!<

! Then we almost got a clone rebellion. Echo and Omega freed all the clones. There were only like 20. Fine, it could have been awesome if we recognized any of them. No just more of the nameless clones. An ordinary Star Wars the Clone Wars moment. Tried and true. 6-7/10!<

!Then they infiltrated the, they called it the training room. Good call back I guess. Hemlock trapped them again, and the guards starting tearing them up. More darkness. More danger. Is Star Wars a kids show? 8-9/10 depending on how it was going to end. !<

!4 minutes later and it's all over. All the bad batch are alive. CX-2 really was just a clone and so were all the CX units. There was one moment there where I thought I saw googles on one of the helmets and I thought they were going to reveal that Hemlock had cloned the clones. Nope. The internet ruined an okay storyline. 4/10 !<

The final confrontation with Hemlock...>!Scorch went out bad. I took that personally. I'm not sure I'm a Filoni fan anymore. 1/10 Omega, Crosshair, and Hunter working together was low-key pretty great. Crosshair finally fixed his shooting. Cutting off the hand that doesn't work is an interesting life hack but whatever. The scene is a overall a good example of how doing exactly what the audience expects isn't a bad thing. 6-7/10!<

!Then it's over. They're back on the island, the clones are going to Rex, Karr is going to Senator Chuchi. They Bad Batch sitting in the sun and finally rests. !<

I'm not upset, angry, viotrolic, or anything really. I feel so neutral about it. I think the reason I feel that way is the "Bad Batch" has never really been about the bad batch. At first it was dumb dumb fun. Then it was just a lens to view the titanic events of star wars. Order 66, the fall of Kamino, the birth of the storm trooper, project necromancer. Even in low stakes moments it was about other people. Cid, Phee, Durand, Cut, Hera, and so many others. For the longest time it was about the clones and their transition into the empire. Now at the very end of the show it's for the first time really about the Bad Batch. All questions about the greater franchise, however closely tied to them, is for another time.

It's very different from the rest of the show, and I'm still not sure how I feel. If you read this far thanks. If you read this and happened to be involved in making the show, thank you for the experience. It was a great time.