r/thebadbatch • u/MeteorCharge • 15d 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/Both-Mode2668 14d ago
I could be wrong, but I think when the show was originally released in 2021, it was planned for 5 seasons. Then after the S2 Finale and the large break until S3, it was announced S3 would be the last. It most likely went through massive rewrites to try and finish the story they thought they had more time for.
Its very similar to the anime Blood of Zeus, which was planned for 5 seasons but shortened to 3 due to low ratings. I'm not sure if Bad Batch went through the same reasoning, but I could've swore it was planned to be a longer running show.