Star Wars: The Bad Batch closes out a wildly uneven debut season
As “Kamino Lost” brings season 1 of The Bad Batch to a close, the series' strengths and weaknesses reveal themselves in full
TV Reviews Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Following the impactful seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, in terms of both the series and its hardscrabble cast of characters, Star Wars: The Bad Batch has always had its work cut out for it. Mere seconds into the series Clone Force 99 was already scrambling to find purchase during the execution of Order 66, the most dire moment of the wars when the Republic’s fate was decided and the galaxy was changed forever. In the chaos the self-styled Bad Batch lost one of their clone brothers, Crosshair, in what turned out to be a difference of philosophy rather than the efficacy of their Kaminoan-installed inhibitor chips. Once Hunter, Tech, Echo, and Wrecker escaped Kamino with the young clone Omega in tow the members of “Experimental Unit 99” got to work finding a new identity living in the shadow of the Empire.
For Crosshair, this work came easily. Good soldiers follow orders and Crosshair is a good soldier to the Empire. He asserted his command over a new squad and did as he was told, no matter how cruel or merciless his task was. Hunter found adapting to a post-war reality more difficult: with a young charge on board the Havoc Marauder looking for guidance and acceptance, Hunter attempted to find his inner dad but ultimately discovered all he would ever have to be for Omega was a brother. (This week it was revealed that Hunter is actually Omega’s little brother; something to chew on until season two.) As for Echo, he quietly became the moral center of the Batch (when the show remembered that he was even there), nudging Hunter to do the right thing even though Hunter’s screwy instincts often made him do otherwise. Then there’s Omega, who began the series not really knowing what she wanted but was wise enough to know she wanted more than what Kamino had to offer. She charted the stars with the Batch, became a minor crossbow-wielding warrior, and made some friends along the way. As for Tech and Wrecker? They rolled with the punches, filling out the background in team shots and occasionally doing something cool from episode to episode, like Wrecker socking a baby rancor in the maw or Tech spinning the Marauder in crazy maneuvers like Anakin Skywalker reborn.
The Bad Batch has always been great at spectacle, but revealing hidden character depths? That’s another matter altogether. “Kamino Lost”, directed by Saul Ruiz and written by Jennifer Corbett, brings season one to a close and the strengths and weaknesses of The Bad Batch reveal themselves in full. A strength: The Bad Batch is capable of achieving exhilarating dramatic heights even when it’s only putting in minimal character work, and when Vice Admiral Rampart pummeled Tipoca City into the sea last week it was hard not to feel gutted when the episode suddenly cut to black and there was a full week to worry over whether or not every member of Clone Force 99, Crosshair included, would make it out of Kamino alive. What’s more, Rampart’s latest order suddenly made The Bad Batch a critical turning point for the wider Star Wars saga; the cloning facility of Kamino fell into the ocean and we watched the Clone Wars era wash away with it. (Though Disney Plus’ upcoming live action Kenobi series, as well as the upcoming live action Ahsoka series, will likely have Clone Wars-related business to settle.) As far as an exhibition of its strengths are concerned, “Return To Kamino” was a powerhouse reckoning that set up what should have been an emotionally daunting and narratively satisfying finale.
“Kamino Lost” brought more of the series’ weaknesses to the fore. Most notably, the drama surrounding the fate of medical droid AZI-345211 (etc.) ends up being more impactful than the fates of the Bad Batch, Crosshair included. The oh-so helpful droid puts his headlight-eyes to work finding a way out of the submerged Tipoca cloning facility and even places his own mechanical existence at risk navigating the Batch to the surface. But when those headlights go out and AZI drifts away, Omega decides not to accept the droid’s sacrifice and goes for a swim after him. So here comes Crosshair, who stops Hunter from making the same egregious mistake and pulls out his sniper rifle (from where is anybody’s guess), firing off a life-saving grapple that pulls both AZI and Omega to safety.
It’s the episode’s most stirring sequence, but Crosshair’s brief flirtation with heroism feels like it’s supposed to serve season two instead of this finale, or even this entire season. Later, when everyone is safe and dry on the sole landing platform in all of Kamino, Crosshair makes it abundantly clear where his allegiances lie: “I’ve made my decision.” (Hunter seems to have had his fill of Crosshair, at least: “We weren’t going to leave you behind,” he says, maxing out his charity to his murderous former brother who has done nothing but try to kill him all season. “If you want to stay here and die, that’s your call.”) If Bad Batch season one wasn’t setting up a redemption arc for Crosshair why does he go to the trouble of saving AZI and Omega? Did this act come from a place of genuine concern for Omega, who made at least two attempts to appeal to his basic humanity this week, or was it simply because Omega and AZI dug Crosshair out of the rubble and prevented him from drowning? When Omega thanks him for the rescue, all Crosshair can muster is “Consider us even.” So it’s the second thing, then.
“You’re still their brother, Crosshair,” Omega says, her last parting shot. “You’re my brother, too.” And then the Marauder takes off and Crosshair is left to his own thoughts (chief amongst them hoping that an Imperial shuttle happens by and picks him up). Perhaps Crosshair is still torn between his loyalty to the Empire and what remains of his love for his brothers and perhaps he is not, but we’re not getting anywhere near figuring that out. At least, not in 2021.
Even with its stunner of an opener, where we go inside Tipoca City and feel last week’s laser barrage far more intensely, “Kamino Lost” feels like it’s revisiting well-trodden ground, particularly when it comes to Hunter and Crosshair who once again row over who is right and who is wrong even with an entire ocean and a giant, hungry sea turtle threatening to swallow them whole. (Though it is pretty darn cute when the bickering bros get sardined into a medical tube later on.) The episode makes attempts to find a little more closure for the clones and their former Kaminoan home (even after it’s settled on the ocean floor) by stashing the Batch in their former barracks for a fleeting moment of relative safety. It’s a symbolic location that dredges up a lot of hurt feelings between Crosshair and Hunter, further underscoring the point that neither Hunter nor Crosshair, nor any clone for that matter, can ever go home again. Figuratively and literally, the show makes abundantly clear, “home” is gone.
Still, it’s a new dawn for the Batch, represented by the first nice day the eternally stormy Kamino has ever had onscreen. As Omega surveys the smoldering ruin that used to be her home in broad daylight we’re left to consider the various successes and shortcomings of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
This finale is a mixed bag, a fitting representation of how wildly uneven the quality of this debut season has been. We’ve spoken before about the rhythms of Star Wars animation, how it gets hung up on Easter eggs and lore expansion and fan favorite cameos at the expense of the story it’s telling at any given point. In the case of The Bad Batch, by the time the final credits roll it’s clear that a planet received more closure this season than any of the show’s characters, yet at the same time it’s hard not to appreciate how reverential it all feels. You take the good with the bad. More good than bad is how gorgeous this entire season was: from concept phase to storyboarding to final render, The Bad Batch is hands-down the best looking Star Wars animated series to date, intimate and weird like The Mandalorian and in its best moments it can visually hold its own with the wild alien environments of The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens. Star Wars animation looks incredible. Now let’s see if it can tell a story that packs the same punch as The Clone Wars in less than seven seasons.
Right now it’s not looking like that’s going to happen any time soon. Season one of The Bad Batch closes, but there is no final look at the Batch safe onboard the Marauder, charting a new course to who knows where, closing out their story on their terms. There is no final heart-to-heart between Hunter and Omega, or a chance, at least, to truly understand what the heck is going on inside Crosshair’s head. Instead, the final shot of our Batch was provided at a distance, showing them depart Kamino with Crosshair left behind to stew over the events of this tumultuous last day and what his Imperial future holds for him. Will he be friend or foe the next time he sees Hunter? Even that has to keep for now; the last last sequence to this debut season instead takes us to a mountainous Imperial outpost, where Nala Se is expected to do big and exciting (and presumably dangerous) scientific things for the Empire. Instead of closing things out with Lucasfilm’s Dirty Half-Dozen we instead tee up for the adventures to come on a grim, foreboding note, a fittingly impersonal finish to a series that has so far largely dodged vital character moments to make room for everything else in its toy box.
Stray observations
- Hey, we made it! 16 weeks and 16 recaps on and here we are at the end. Thanks for taking the time each week to catch up on The Bad Batch with me, for offering up your takes and generally being awesome readers. I love Star Wars and I know a lot of you do, too. It’s been a lot of fun being able to share it with you.
- Special thanks to my editor, Danette Chavez, who whips my copy into shape and keeps me on deadline. Working for The A.V. Club has been a blast, and Danette makes it that much better.
- It tracks that Omega would trust her heart’s impulses over cold logic, but trying to rescue AZI was about as reckless a move as she’s ever made. That droid better end up doing something medically important and/or miraculous next season, I swear.
- The remaining clones on board Rampart’s star destroyer must feel pretty ambivalent about being a part of the destruction of their home. The voice on one trooper seems to confirm it: “The cities have been destroyed sir. All… Kaminoan facilities have… collapsed… in the sea.” Brutal.
- AZI, to Crosshair: “Greetings, CT-9904. You survived the aerial bombardment but are now moments away from drowning.” Somebody get that droid some AA batteries!
- Say! Some of the other Batchers got to chime in this week: “All that time, you didn’t even try to come back,” Wrecker points out to Crosshair, ruefully. “We still would have taken ya.” Tech’s assessment: “Crosshair has always been severe and unyielding. It is his nature. You cannot change that.” Then, in Tech’s very Tech-y way, he offers a subtly indirect challenge/dig to Crosshair: “He cannot change that.” (Echo remained largely silent during this sequence.) Can we please, please, have more character work with Wrecker, Tech, and Echo next season? I didn’t realize how starving I was for Tech to be a person until he scorched Crosshair like that.
- I just remembered that Cad Bane was in this season. Remember Cad Bane? And Fennec? Wild times.
- Nala Se has arrived at her new home, a well-fortified Imperial outpost. Her greeting: “We are all admirers of your scientific talents. The Empire has big things planned for you.” Two guesses as to what those “big things” are going to be?
- So how did season one of Star Wars: The Bad Batch stack up for you, group? Did the visuals dazzle you as they did me? Which cameo was the most superfluous? Are the Batch still going to schlep for Cid in the second season? Let’s give each other a proper farewell in the comments below.
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The Star Wars show that dares to ask ‘What if your four Gay Dads were actually your little brothers?’
I’m sorry, I can only read it as ‘Tapioca City.’
See, I always, without exception, type “tapioca” first. It’s maddening.
Oh, thank GOD I wasn’t the only one.
Tapioooca!
I think it’s obvious that Nala Se will be working on the Palpatine cloning project.
It sucks that every piece of Star Wars media will now try to retroactively explain the garbage that was The Rise of Skywalker
It would take an entire season to explain the 1000’s of OP star destroyers having only 2 fragile antennas that the entire fleet lives or dies by.
See, that was one of the few parts of the film that worked for me. The notion that as spaceships not designed to take off very often they need some kinda telemetry to know which way is “down” is a fun little sci-fi conceit.Giving each of them a superlaser was the dumb part, as if a fleet of Star Destroyers wasn’t enough by itself.
It would take an entire season to explain the 1000’s of OP star destroyers having only 2 fragile antennas that the entire fleet lives or dies by.I mean in fairness that’s an old sci-fi trope. “Just take out the mainframe and the entire army collapses.” Hell, even The Avengers got away with using that.
The only explanation I can get for that is they didn’t have enough people, so they needed them to be remote controlled. Because there’s now way they could staff that many ships. But in the film it just seemed like the ships couldn’t go up. JJ….really doesn’t understand how starships would be built. He had the same issue with Star Trek, where the Enterprise is being built on Earth, on the ground, in Iowa for some reason.
On the positive side, Filoni’s work with The Clone Wars and this show made me like and appreciate the prequel movies about 10x more than I did before. I get more enjoyment watching them now knowing more of the story (they’re still clunky, but still). If they can do that for the sequels, I’m all for it.
TCW helped me appreciate the “prequel era” more, but for the most part, those three movies are still less than the Sun of their parts.
As someone who never cared to watched The Clone Wars series and never will, I will meet you in the middle and say I do understand how you feel…
(SERIOUSLY, he killed children, and nobody for goddamn 7 seven seasons mentions it? Passive retcon whimp out is that?)
BUT, Star Wars is bigger now because the story continues regardless of the good or bad of the past.
How many people disliked ROTJ and called it the worst thing to star wars ever? Now compare those words to how many people went crazy over Luke last year.
Oh, I thought that was in the A range. I think Omega will try to save anyone she believes is sentient. Droid ARE sentient aren’t they. (I’d like to see more of this issue played out throughout the whole franchise, “Solo” accepted).Rampart after blowing away Camino for a week straight:“There should be a more efficient way to do this.”
Disney will likely continue with Lucas’ annoying habit of dancing around the ethics. Yes, SW droids are self-aware, have self-determination, have emotions, form attachments, and achieve personhood. Their personhood is inconvenient for their creators and masters. It’s usually at this point they get their memories wiped and/or fitted with a restraining bolt.
Storytelling-wise, I hope Omega saved AZ so he and Echo can have a cup of tea and a nice long talk about Fives. And if Rex is sitting in the corner saying, “Yep, and then…..” all the better. Give Echo some closure on that rather than the little snippet during the chip removal shenanigans.
This episode definetly had the best visuals and action throughout the entire season, but ultimately we didn’t achieve much.
Everyone are more or less where they were at the start of the season after the group first separated from the Empire.
Except that the Kaminoans cloning facilities were destroyed (meaning we are more or less done with the major production of clones) and the Empire has officially transitioned into using Stormtrooper recruits.
Oh, and AZI is now with the main group and we found out that Omega is technically older than the rest of her squad brothers (even though she usually acts less mature than the rest of them given her lack of outside experience)
This show did not need a wacky droid sidekick. Wrecker was the wacky guy.
And they already had Gonky, who is much more fun.
Uneven. Sure. Wildly? Relax.
It was better than the first season of Clone Wars.
The first season of Resistance was better than the first season of The Clone Wars.
Yikes.
I’d argue that too. Outside of a handful of episode CW S1 is rough.
Not that far. Not that far.
Whoa. That might be going to far…
I haven’t watched the episode yet, but “wildly uneven?” That’s not very consistent with the reviews here, which range from B’s to A’s. There’s two C’s and both are C+. Heck, almost half are in the A range.I know, “grades don’t matter, just go with the review,” but even then, most of the reviews are fairly positive, with little to pick at.
Charting the course from premire to finale, it’s a pretty spotty show in terms of what it wants to accomplish, and sometimes it jettisons even that for other, less necessary, things. Characters are set up only to then disappear. (Cid is the most conspicuous example!) That’s where “wildly” came from. I might have employed some hyperbole when I wrote that headline, but I stand by it.
Fair enough. While I still have yet to be able to watch this finale I’d say the show accomplishes what it sets out to. Sure, it brings in characters and plotlines only to not fully follow through on them but it’s also a multi-season show and story they’re setting up here. In fact, I’d argue all of that is de rigueur for the Star Wars animated shows at this point. I’m sure they’ll revisit a lot of these characters later. I won’t argue as to whether or not this is a flaw, cause it’s subjective, but it doesn’t bother me much. For what it’s worth, I do want to say that I’ve loved following along with these reviews. They’re always well-written and insightful, a rarity it seems these days around these parts, so thank you so much for that.
Why don’t you just watch the episode and create your own thoughts? It would take less time than typing out the novel you just wrote.
I really appreciate you saying that! These were a lot of fun to do.
I thought it was a pretty solid season, even if it didn’t go very far, thematically. It was certainly a stronger debut than The Clone Wars had. And you can’t say the show doesn’t have places to go after this. I look forward to what happens next.
I was really hoping they’d hint at the source of Omega’s ability to pull astonishing abilities out of nowhere. Like flying a shuttle she’s never seen before, or reading aliens like a book, or playing grandmaster level Dejarik after watching the local drunks play a few games.I’m not saying it’s lazy writing or whatever, but she seems to have the ability to download skilz like Trinity taking 10 second helicopter flying lessons.
I suspect her superpower is being a precocious child in a cartoon.
I swear to god if she ends up having force powers Imma shit a brick
I mean they have to set some stuff up for season 2.
She reminds me of how DC hero Mister Terrific gets described, he has “a natural aptitude for having natural aptitudes.”
Just once in Star Wars I want the kid to be completely useless, actively fuck up each mission and for everyone to hate them.
Doesn’t that describe Ahsoka in season 1 of Clone Wars?While I wouldn’t call her “useless” that season, that’s really only because as a force-powerful padawan she could offer some minimum of help. But didn’t she also disobey orders a lot and get some clone troopers killed, and all the fans hated her then?
With the show now apparently going into the experiments that will eventually set their sights on Baby Yoda, I’m really hoping for an appearance by Werner Herzog. Preferably with the character modeled after how he looked in the ‘70s, mustache and all.
I’m all the way ready for that.
I sincerely hope they are going into Baby Yoda and not Clone Palpatine.
See I was thinking we would be seeing Nala Se holed up with Galen Erso.
Also very acceptable. She’s a biologist and I don’t know how that applies to building a Death Star which makes the other two options more likely. But I don’t think the writers would really care and could just pretend that scientists are scientists and experts in all science-y things.
Ohhhh yeah, I guess you’re right that her experience in biology/cloning would make her more of a candidate for the Snoke/Palpaclone project. I just sort of imagined that, at this point in the timeline, getting the Death Star off the ground (so to speak) would be the all-hands-on-deck project of the Empire, and all resources would be in one way or another directed towards that. Although it makes a lot of sense that Palpatine is already examining his back door plans for immortality.
Yeah, I think there might be some of that but it won’t be super obvious yet since Palpatine’s a good 20 years away from dying
Kind of like how the mayor of South Park tasked Randy Marsh with solving climate change and the mystery of why South Park residents kept spontaneously combusting despite his protestations of “but I’m a geologist!”
Galen Erso isn’t captured or holed up at this point in the timeline.
Thoughts on this episode:- I don’t think it’s that strange that Crosshair saved Omega: he doesn’t think he’s the bad guy. He’s willing to commit brutal atrocities not out of moustache-twirling villainy, but because he believes in what he’s doing. It’s rather chilling if you think about it- I didn’t care for how dark much of the episode was, I had to darken the room I’m in just to make some scenes out. You’d think studios would’ve learned from Game of Thrones that we don’t all have private cinemas, and that dark blue or grey on black will just look like a blur half the time- This episode tried so fucking hard to make me care about the robot. This if anything backfired: I now have, albeit to a lesser degree, the same distaste for it that I harbour for the dog in Independence Day
Thoughts on the series:
– As someone who’s remarked a few times that I dislike the aesthetic of the Filoni cartoons, I have to say it’s worked pretty well in Bad Batch. I think this show’s painterly textures are the ingredient that Clone Wars and Rebels were missing; making it look more hand-crafted does a lot to sell the wooden puppet style- Highlights for me: the engine set-piece and the fight between the bounty hunters. Lowlights: the repeated cartoon-logic message that it’s unreasonable to keep a literal child from the battlefield
They’re all literally children. Like they said, Omega is older than the rest of the Batch. The oldest clones are maybe twelve or thirteen years old at this part of the canon. The concept is the baked-in tragedy of the Clone Wars per the Prequels: the war was fought with child soldiers. Omega just happens to look her age.
True, though it’s kept kinda vague how the accelerated aging works. If we worry about that, then that some clones are marrying and fathering children gets wayyy more problematic too, and I doubt that’s what they were going for.
Cut’s the only one we’ve seen with kids, and he’s their stepfather per the canon. (Which makes sense. He met Suu after the Battle of Geonosis three years ago.) The entire war is problematic, and the fridge horror is real when you think about it. The cartoon writers are more aware of that than Lucas was.
Once the Clones were introduced into the canon, Star Wars went from a rollicking space western/space adventure to a dystopian nightmare. Their creation and ill treatment is the great moral atrocity of this universe.
That, and all the slavery that the old republic, empire, and new republic tolerate.
As an ur-fan who saw and adored the OT in theaters as a teen, the PT and TCW were a shocking tonal shift. Turns out the SW universe is a pretty shabby, shitty place, has been for eons. It’s a decaying society, a caste society, a slaver society. Sentient non-organic people (droids) and cloned men stripped of freewill are grist for the engines of commerce and war. The force-sensitive Elite patronize and screw-over beings not blessed with their gift (or curse, depending on how you look at it), which is hereditary, dynastic. Jedi and Sith are themselves enslaved by this Force which controls them. The message I get from SW: Give in to the Force. Give in to your masters. Know your place. There’s no such thing as self-determination. Sadly, I see no good outcome for the Clones, some of the finest, noblest characters in the canon. The least awful outcome is they go down fighting for their freedom, because it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Such a bummer.
Sorry to go there but, this felt VERY much like a reflection of an experience many of us went through during the 45’s campaigns and presidency…
That one family member, or close friend, who previously always tracked with you on most things, inexplicably became an alien entity, supporting people and policies without logic or justifiable evidence. It feels like it was meant to make us think of that. Crosshair blindly supports the Empire, even though all evidence points to them using him, and not at all interested in his welfare.
Oh wow, I didn’t put that together at all, but Crosshair=Qanon dork is GOOD.
That’s a really interesting take! I never considered that.
So I know this is because of “plot reasons”, but it still bugs me that they put Omega in her own tube and made Hunter and Crosshair, two grown adults, cram into one tube. Come on! Just make another tube. It’s such a minor thing.But silly nitpick aside, that was a good finale. Season overall was pretty strong though it did wane at times. But that’s just gonna be how it is with these shows. Clone Wars, Rebels, they all are up and down. For what its worth, I thought Bad Batch was much more consistent than both the first seasons of CW and Rebels. They absolutely should have had more episodes that centrally focused on Crosshair though. All the emotional beats they were going for would have landed so much better had we gotten at least one episode of Crosshair leading his Imperial team, learning about him and his mindset, etc.And great job with the reviews, Jarrod. I hope you’re back when the 2nd season rolls around.
They covered that. The tubes had to be balanced for the buoyancy to work. Two similarly-sized clones in each, or single clones. (Crosshair looks like a better match for Tech in size while Echo and Hunter seem to be better fitted together, in my opinion.)
Thanks for that, Drew! I hadn’t thought that far ahead, but hopping back on for season two would be a blast. We’ll see!
Too many episodes. Seasons should be 8-10 eps.
Agreed. This isn’t as large-scale a story as Clone Wars or Rebels, and even Clone Wars felt like it had a lot of filler eps. This season could have been cut by a third and little of value would have been lost.
I don’t get this line of thinking. Episodic storytelling is a choice, not some kind of cardinal sin – especially given Star Wars’ whole thing is homage to older styles of film/show.
Yes, but that choice only works when the episodes are good.
I disagree. 16 episodes for the amount of story we got was fine. But we needed better use of those episodes. The Hera two parter is good example of what the show needed more of.It was repetitive watching the Batch just do more missions, but far more interesting seeing that in the context of the sweeping political change of the early Empire era. Heck, you could have spiced up the Cid subplot, by making it a real subplot about how the end of the Clone Wars affected the criminal underworld
When the Clone Wars first rolled around, it was the ugliest show on television. Watching this Bad Batch episode I was struck by how fuckin good it looks. Animation and effects but also direction and “acting” in these shows really have come a long way.
Speaking on just this episode, it was a little underwhelming, and realizing that getting to their ship was going to be the entire episode was disappointing. Speaking on the season as a whole, there were some hits and some misses. Nothing out of the ordinary for the first season of a show trying to find itself. It was the project I was least excited about coming out of the shareholders’ meeting, but those low expectations became my friend when I was never overly let down by any single episode.Unlike OP, I think the show was STRONGEST when it drew on cameos and Easter eggs. Star Wars is (attempting to be) one cohesive multi-platform universe. No single entry is supposed to rest on its own, they all play off each other. It’s why Hera’s episodes are the best. I think most people were disappointed because they had hoped for more insight and intrigue into the transition from Republic to Empire, which again, when they showed that through cameos with Tarkin, made for the best episodes.This was a stronger season that CW season 1 (or the terrible movie). Too many forget how bad season 1 of CW is because it debuted so long ago and wrapped so well (albeit only seige of Mandalore arc was worth watching in S7). I’m cautiously optimistic that we’ll get a stronger season 2.Also, place me in the minority if you must, but I love Omega and her voice.
I dislike people saying a show was not good cus it did not fulfill there expectation, the show needed to tell us the story of the characters. I wonder if pricely dose episode are the ones that they consider not good.
I feel like it would have worked better is the finale’s two parts had been available the same week. This episode feels much more like a conclusion to last week’s episode than a standalone, and the emotional impact of the destruction of Kamino should not have been split in two.As for this season, I’m still not sure about how good this show will be. It might be called The Bad Batch but its real main character is Omega. Can Echo, Tech and Wrecker ever be developed enough to become true lead characters? This season should have given an answer but it didn’t.
Most meaningless cameo: The Martez sisters. Best cameo: any time Rex shows up.