Why Star Wars Fans Are Concerned About The Bad Batch and Whitewashing
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The titular Bad Batch speaking with their new friend Omega. (Screenshot: Disney)
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This week a new
Star Wars animated series on Disney+,
The Bad Batch, re-introduced us to the last days of the Clone War and the rise of the sinister Empire. But amid the blaster fights and familiar faces, some fans have shown concern that the show’s major characters have had their skin tones adjusted, pushing them away from their roots.
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Star Wars: How Dee Bradley Baker Balances All The Bad Batch Characters
In
Star Wars: The Bad Batch the series focuses on a unique, special-ops Clone Trooper unit with irregularities compared to the other Clones that are wandering around the Republic. Naturally voice actor Dee Bradley Baker, who has voiced the clone troopers for over a decade now, voices all five of the characters in The Bad Batch. Hunter, Crosshairs, Tech, Echo, and Wrecker all have their own position within the group and speaking with ComicBook.com in a new interview, Baker opened up to us about how his special group of soldiers are thrown for a loop in the new series thanks to a new addition while also balancing one of the most tenuous moments in the Star Wars franchise.
Fans caught a glimpse of the Bad Batch the squad’s colloquial name among the more regimented clone battalions much earlier, executive producer and head writer Jennifer Corbett told Rotten Tomatoes recently.
“[Going to series] was more in response to a combination of things because fans got to see the original story reel of the Bad Batch back in 2015 at Star Wars Celebration and there was a great reception [to it],” she explained.
Fans’ enthusiastic response led to featuring Clone Force 99 on
Clone Wars once Disney+ picked up that series to complete its overall story and, ultimately, a program of their own.
Who Are the Bad Batch in Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Disney+?
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Star Wars Day. It s the latest animated show in the franchise s universe following
Rebels.
The Clone Wars viewers may recognize said Bad Batch from the final season of that show, which introduced the mutated Clone Force 99.
Who are the Bad Batch?
For those who missed
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, here s the history that led to the creation of Clone Force 99.
In a Season 6 episode, we learned that a Jedi Master named Sifo-Dyas had visions of an upcoming galactic war after the events of
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