With the third and final season on the way, it's time to look and see how season two holds up.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is an animated sci-fi series, and the spin-off/sequel to Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It's produced by Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation and distributed by Disney Platform Distribution. Just like season one, this season also consist of 16 episodes. The show is created by Dave Filoni.
The story is, it's been months since the events of the last season and The Bad Batch continue to navigate through a new world. While they continue to take jobs to get through another day, what they don't know is the Galactic Empire is aware they're not dead, and are coming after them.
- Negatives
I've got nothing.
- Mix
Much like the first season, the gray area stems from the storytelling. Let's start off with the good, one of those being themes such as replacement. Good portions of the series shows us how the clones feel about being replaced by people who aren't as effective soldiers as they are, and how they feel as though they're being cast aside despite everything they've done. But we also see that replacement theme over on the Empire side. Two characters named Edmon Rampart and Nolan have different personalities but share the trait that they think they're irreplaceable only for that be shown how that's not the case. But even if you didn't catch those themes then you can simply enjoy some greatly written episodes, mainly the Crosshair episodes those being "The Solitary Clone" and "The Outpost". I'm not over exaggerating when I say those are amazing episodes, I especially loved "The Outpost". Now for the negative side, that being the filler episodes, or as I like to call them "the adventure of the week" episodes. These are the episodes that you can just skip. One of them being being "Faster". The only thing we got out of that was Cid (The Bad Batch's boss) is sketchy. We already knew that because 1) She's a smuggler and Star Wars has shown a lot of those people aren't exactly good and 2) I do believe there's been numerous times when the show brought up that's she's shady. So "Faster" wasn't exactly telling us anything new.
- Positives
Alright now to tell you the 100% truly good things about this season, one being the voice acting. Yeah I know, now I'm not telling you anything new, but I can't help it. The cast just continues to do a great job. They're truly talented and that talent should be praised time and time again.
Then there's the action. I think I actually enjoyed even more so here than the first season, probably because of the slightly improved writing but I digress. I think it was at its best with the last two episodes because the Bad Batch was in such a such a tight spot, which kinda brought a tiny bit more suspense than what we already had.
The last thing I'll touch on is the animation. Another unsurprising thing but still should be praised. It's once again just great. I think the best showcase came from the "Pabu" episode. The island setting was just beautiful, especially during the sunset scenes.
While there is some slight improvements, the show overall is still just at a good level as supposed to great. Hopefully the third/final season will be the best because the writers will stop with the filler episodes. Hopefully they'll stop with the filler episodes.
My final rating is, Good.
All done everybody. Come back on Thursday, Feb 22nd, where I'll begin the Road to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, with my review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.
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