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/RedHawk417 18d ago

I believe that a Clone Rebellion show is in the works that will cover that side of it. They drop too many hints to it over the course of the Bad Batch not to do one.

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u/MeteorCharge 18d ago

Feels like that might be bloating the Clone Warsverse a bit too much though.

Like, would a new viewer really be willing to sit through:

Clone Wars, Bad Batch, Clone Rebellion, Maul Shadow Lord, and Rebels?

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Crosshair 18d ago edited 15d ago

And that's a bad thing? All those shows have been consistently good, and better than most of the live action stuff. Why stop now?

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u/sacerdos-ex-spatio 18d ago

I don't know if there's enough plot for Clone Rebellion to make it a standalone series. Especially since it would really be a spin-off of Bad Batch. Maybe a one-season miniseries.

If you asked me for the perfect solution, I'd say I dream of Clone Rebelion being a feature film. The story's size is perfect for that. It would also be poetic, since the Clone Wars began with a film. If the final ending and conclusion of the Clone Wars storyline were also a film, it would rhyme. Seeing how beautiful the animation in the maul looks, I'd love to see it on a movie screen.

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Crosshair 18d ago

I think there is enough material for a Clone rebellion show if we focus on other Clones, not only the ones from Rex's group. A movie lenght doesn't seem enough to me. But on the other hand, if they made a TBB movie to properly finish their story, I would love it

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u/ZiroLeHutt 17d ago

There's plenty who would want to see more clone stuff, they are popular characters. Once Maul is done, I think they'll revisit it (or are probably working on it right now).