The Bad Batch’s biggest struggle has been its often aimless storytelling, but that issue is not present when the show leans into tragedy. But despite the rich potential of these stories, they're few and far between. Other side characters, like the Syndulla family in Season 1’s “Devil’s Deal” and “Rescue on Ryloth,” are also fated for tragedy (Hera Syndula’s ( Vanessa Marshall) mother Eleni ( Ferelith Young) will die in the resistance movement that Clone Force 99 helped to save). This bodes poorly for his efforts to undermine the Empire and save his Clone brothers and indicates that his successes will be few and far between. Fans of Star Wars: Rebels will know that within 10 or so years from the events of The Bad Batch Season 2, Captain Rex ( Dee Bradley Baker) will have retired from fighting against the Empire and gone into hiding. Even as Clone Force 99 dutifully set their blasters to stun at every opportunity to not harm their brothers, we know that it won't make a difference in the long run.Įven on a smaller scale, many of the stories The Bad Batch chooses to tell are fated to end in tragedy. Every other major piece of Star Wars storytelling set during the reign of the Empire highlights the constant presence and threat of Stormtroopers, not Clones. Even a few years out from the current setting of the show, the Clone Army has been seemingly completely replaced with Stormtroopers (as seen in the Star Wars Jedi games and the Obi-Wan Kenobi series). The audience knows that the story of the Clone Army can only end in tragedy. The Bad Batch, despite being set during a period of Star Wars history that hasn’t already been thoroughly explored by the movies or shows, has the potential for a lot of this dramatic irony.
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