Star Wars: The Bad Batch Producer Clarifies Season 1 Episode Count
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch, with producer Brad Rau confirming that Season 1 will consist of 16 episodes. Previous reports had claimed that the debut season could merely be 14 episodes, with confirmation of getting even more adventures surely delighting fans. Given that
Star Wars:
The Clone Wars ran for 12 episodes, most fans were likely expecting a similar trajectory for the spinoff, only for the producer to confirm many more weeks of adventures in store for viewers.
CNET. We love these characters. We d love to keep telling the stories.
Clone Wars and
Bad Batch creator Dave Filoni has been teasing these characters for years, as they were meant to debut in the final season of
Attack Of The Clones and
Revenge Of The Sith, was not perfect; after 133 episodes, you’re going to get some crude matter in amongst the luminous beings. But at its best, Dave Filoni’s series had some of the most satisfying storytelling and world-building that
Star Wars’ vast mythology has to offer: fleshing out minor characters with rich, years-long narratives, and offering human (or human-like alien) stories in-between the flashy lightsaber battles. Somehow, at its peak, a cartoon often managed to feel less cartoonish than the live-action prequels it was inspired by.
From the initial title fade the
Clone Wars logo burns through to reveal the
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Launches With Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score
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It s Star Wars Day, May 4th, and Disney commemorated by released the 70-minute premiere episode of Lucasfilm Animation s latest Star Wars series,
Star Wars: The Clone Wars left off, taking the deviant troopers of Clone Force 99, introduced in
Clone Wars final season, into the early days of the Galactic Empire. With the episode now live, reviews are also appearing online, and thus far, the show is faring well. Though
RottenTomatoes has only registered eight critical reactions at the time of writing, all eight have been positive, including
The Clone Wars debuted to the table for
Maggie Simpson in ‘The Force Awakens From Its Nap,’ the first of several from
The Simpsons that will release throughout the year.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
The series follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in “The Clone Wars”) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch – a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army each possess a singular exceptional skill which makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew. In the post-Clone War era, they will take on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to stay afloat and find new purpose.