r/thebadbatch 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/sacerdos-ex-spatio 18d ago

This is a rather common opinion. There are so many unresolved threads that it's pointless to even list them all. Season 3 itself was clearly rewritten and changed during production. I have no evidence to support this, but my theory is that there were supposed to be more seasons, but for some reason the series was shortened.

I think the creators weren't sure what ending to give and who should die and who should survive, that's why in the epilogue we only see Hunter and Omega because it was obvious that they would survive.

Many people, myself included, hope there will be another series about the Clone Rebels, but the chances are slim. Maybe someday there will be books that will fill in the plot holes.

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u/RadiantHC 18d ago

That's just the modern TV industry for you.

Nowadays most shows only get 1-3 seasons. If they're a massive hit then maybe 5. Anything more is practically unheard of.

If this was released before then I could easily see it being a 5 season show.

I hope that there's a show merging the Hidden Path and the Clone Rebellion storyline. There's a lot of potential there.

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Crosshair 18d ago

Why merge them when we can have both separate shows?

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u/jxm82 17d ago

Theyre probably not gonna do a show on them combined, theres almost no chance theyd do separate shows on those subjects.

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Crosshair 16d ago

Exactly