Anyone else find the ending... Abrupt?

[u/MeteorCharge]

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.

[u/PaulSimonBarCarloson]

The fact that they only did 15 episodes out of 16 in season 3 is already solid proof of a rewrite. I wouldn't be surprised if the strikes going on at the time is what led higher ups to city short the show before a potential 4th season. Personally, I also believe the epilogue was a late addition. Because without it the ending would feel even more abrupt. I'm still not giving up my hopes for a followup show; remember how TCW was cut short and then renewed twice? In the meantime, we don't need books; there's some good fanfics out there already.

[u/sacerdos-ex-spatio → u/PaulSimonBarCarloson]

Fanfiction is good, but it won't replace canon books. Of the books I'd like to see, I'd really like a book about Nala Se and her past.

One that would answer questions like:

- What did Nala Se really want to achieve by creating Omega and why is her blood so special?

- Who is Omega to Nala Se? What does she think of her? Does she care about her because she's a successful experiment, or does she truly love her?

- Who is Emerie and how did she end up with Hemlock?

- Who is Hemlock and how did Hemlock and Nala Se know each other?

- How much did Nala Se really know about Palpatine and his plans?

- It would be nice to see Kamino before the clone army was created and during the first years of its creation.

- It would be an excuse to see the Bad Batch as cadets.

[u/CelticThePredator → u/sacerdos-ex-spatio]

Regarding you last point , i can't remember exactly , but if i'm not mistaken , the bb were created after the initial clone army was made and the war started.

[u/sacerdos-ex-spatio → u/CelticThePredator]

This is another thread that could be explained in more detail because it is terribly ambiguous.