#CAPTAIN REX BAD BATCH SERIES#

But, as the series goes on, it seems keener and keener on retconning Palpatine’s entire plan in Revenge of the Sith. If the show posited that it was really only the Batch, Rex, and a few other random Clones who didn’t like Order 66, then that wouldn’t change canon all that much. And it’s here where the overall purpose of The Bad Batch gets a little murky. In the final moments of the second part of the Season 2 premiere, we are once again encouraged to side with Clones who are still working for the Empire. And although Season 2 is emotionally affecting, and even conservative with its fan service, this central plotline continues to drive everything.

More of those kinds of cameos crop up in the rest of The Bad Batch Season 2, meaning if you’re connecting the dots from what Dave Filoni created in The Clone Wars and you love those connections in the newer shows (like Mandalorian) then, The Bad Batch can, in a sense, become another Rosetta Stone of Star Wars lore and continuity.īut, just like with Season 1, The Bad Batch Season 2 doubles down on its central thesis: Not all the Clones were down with Order 66, even the ones who obeyed it. In The Bad Batch, Rex is a side character, another Clone spun-off from The Clone Wars series, to create a kind of continuity bridge between that show and the future-tense world of Rebels. The context of Star Wars: Rebels - which is roughly 10 years in the future of The Bad Batch - tells us that the only former Clone who was really actively working for the Rebellion was Captain Rex, and two other Clones named Wolffe and Gregor. Outside of young Omega, you feel that each member of Clone Force 99 is bound by Star Wars canon, even if they’re actively trying to break it. The rest of the Clones are murkier about what they should be doing, partly because the story doesn’t really allow these people to have any real agency. Echo wants the Batch to do more work fighting the Empire, and Hunter wants to play it safe. None of the details of any of this matter, because the two-part debut is really about setting up character stakes. The new season begins with a fairly run-of-the-mill storyline all about the Batch getting tasked with raiding Count Dooku’s leftover treasure, with the hopes of getting a big enough score that will earn them their freedom. The strongest and smartest thing about this setup is that Season 1 didn’t end up making Omega into a mystery box and Season 2 doesn’t either. Like Season 1, The Bad Batch Season 2 follows the A-Team-esque misadventures of Clone Force 99, a group of misfits leftover from the Clone Wars, who all, collectively, adopted a young clone girl named Omega. And in the newly released second season, it does so in a small way that is actually bigger than it seems. But The Bad Batch chips away at our preconceived notions of Star Wars history, more than any of the other contemporary shows.

Andor even gave us cogs that literally added up to the Death Star. In Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ben broke tiny buttons on Darth Vader’s chest plate. In The Book of Boba Fett, fans wondered about how the heck Luke even had Yoda’s small lightsaber. The reappearance of Gregor will likely explain, at least in part, how he came to reunite with Rex and why we saw them together in Rebels.In the ever-evolving story of Star Wars, it’s the little things that count. Once the Dad Batch break him out of his cell block, Gregor helps them escape (well, most of them). We learn he was assigned as a Commando to train new recruits, but didn’t last long before he decided he wanted out. In “War-Mantle,” Gregor is seen attempting to escape an Imperial compound and sends Rex a distress signal just before he’s captured. Because Rebels takes place later in the timeline, Bad Batch is also taking plenty of opportunities to answer the many “how did they get here” questions left on the table until now. So, The Bad Batch does serve as a continuation of many stories the original show, The Clone Wars, started.

Leave it to The Bad Batch to offer us a bridge between these two points in his story. He’d previously appeared in Clone Wars as well, but only briefly.įor a long time, there were questions about how Gregor got from where we left him in Clone Wars to where we found him in Rebels. Gregor was one of two clones that were hiding out with Rex. It turned out to be none other than Captain Rex, who at that point we’d last seen in Clone Wars. In the second season of Star Wars Rebels, Ahsoka sent the Ghost crew to a distant planet to seek out an old friend.

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