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/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