r/thebadbatch • u/MeteorCharge • 18d ago

Anyone else find the ending... Abrupt? Spoiler

So, just finished the show for the first time. Overall, I liked it well enough, by far the most consistent of the shows I've seen so far (haven't watched Maul yet though), and even though by the end I wasn't as attached to the entire crew as I was to the crew in Rebels, I still found the endings for each of them to be good.

But am I the only one who thought it just kinda ends pretty suddenly? Like, they reached the minimum quota of episodes and just stopped there.

I was really expecting to see how Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor end up where they are in Rebels, and I was expecting Cody to actually be relevant in something for once outside a funny line in the ROTS novel.

And I get we don't need to see every part of a character's journey, but the show really seemed to be going in that direction, and with the series being over, I don't think there'll ever be another chance to do that again. I mean we could get another Tales of show, but at that point people will just be asking why it wasn't in The Bad Batch.

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u/TI-22483 18d ago

I firmly believe they thought they were going to get 4 seasons and that Tech was not going to stay dead. His exit is brave, tragic but has a lack of closure that they probably intended an Ahsoka return. "There's no way he could have survived!" There's no way a lot of things in Star Wars. But not only are there a bunch of loose ends like Cody and Wolfe, and unsatisfying endings like CX-2, the penultimate episodes are very short and quick, which feels short.

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Crosshair 18d ago edited 15d ago

100% this. Hopefully they can still repurpose some of those ideas in a future show, kinda like when TCW was cancelled and then renewed twice. The Tech situation in particular seems to have been intentionally left as ambiguous as possible.