And although it lays claim to a time period unexplored by previous Star Wars movies and TV shows, it’s also hemmed in by the inviolable narratives of two trilogies. It’s designed to stand on its own, but it owes deep debts in appearance, content, and tone to the predecessor that spawned it, The Clone Wars. Lucasfilm’s latest series, which debuted on Disney+ on Tuesday to mark May the Fourth (and the one-year anniversary of the Clone Wars finale), is both brand new and older in origin than most recent or scheduled Star Wars releases. She’s bound for fresh adventures, and so are we.īut not so fresh that The Bad Batch doesn’t feel familiar. “You’re not gonna want to miss this view.” The view isn’t new to seasoned Star Wars watchers, but it exhilarates Omega, whose eyes fill with stars as the faint twinkles of distant destinations smear into blue blurs and the ship enters the tunnel of hyperspace. “Strap in, kid,” says Hunter, the hirsute, tattooed leader of the group.
Omega, a girl who’s just escaped her homeworld of Kamino with the series’ titular unit of idiosyncratic clone soldiers, is about to venture outside of the system for the first time. “Aftermath,” the 70-minute premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, culminates in a moment of literal wide-eyed wonder.
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