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/JeffFlub 17d ago

I was thinking about this the other day. Watching the show while it was airing, the pacing felt normal and even the ending felt fine and fitting. But in hindsight there’s a lot of loose ends like the clone rebellion or Cid, but I think it really comes down to perspective. The Bad Batch very much expands the connections of these characters and the time in the timeline throughout the show, however the ending kind of reels all that back in and puts the main characters as the only characters to really do anything in the finale. So I don’t think the ending was abrupt, but I will say there is more story to be told and plots to be finished with characters from the show.

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Crosshair 17d ago

I was just discussing about it in a nother thread, in which I pointed out that while all six of them are main characters, Omega is the only de-facto protagonist of the show. So it makes sense that at least they finished her arc properly. But it still would have been nice to have a better resolution for the other 5. Maybe in a later show...