General Star Wars Animated Series

That’s ‘cause most of this season’s episodes feel more like filler than thriller.

Also page-topper, whoohoo!!

Edited by The10thGeek on Apr 17th 2024 at 12:02:44 PM

That really isn’t true.

I guess some people simply prefer X-Men ‘97 and those are people who are most vocal. Not that they aren’t justified, it’s pretty great.

Plus as Shadao said, today’s Bad Batch episode was more calm before storm, while X-Men’s storm started last episode.

Edited by EmperorGeode on Apr 17th 2024 at 4:16:34 AM

I don't think the odds are high Rampart survives the season, but if he does I wonder what kind of things he would do out in the galaxy as a free man.

Like, he has no reason to love the Empire (or any real ability to rejoin it), but I also doubt a power hungry elitist like that would have any interest in the Rebellion. He'd probably be a good fit for one of the franchise's many criminal enterprises, though.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 17th 2024 at 6:13:19 AM

It's either a life of crime or a laser to the face.

There's no middle ground for Rampart.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Apr 17th 2024 at 8:38:08 AM

Would be interesting for Rampart to join Maul's Crimson Dawn. Maul would be interested in getting Imperial resources to undermine his former master's rule.

With all due respect to you, even though the show started slow and ended up being entertaining TV, it now just feels as if this season has lost the excitement, danger and momentum that the previous two seasons have had and as a result, has grown a little “stale”.

It just feels like the same old mission week in, week out, where the team always completing the mission with 100% success and with minimum causalities due to their ever increasing plot armour.

They've literally lost three Batchers.

One of them came back after a whole season in captivity, and another one makes cameos, but they literally lost three Batchers

Three?!? Who were they…?

Crosshair, Echo, and Tech. Tech's situation is likely permanent. We weren't shown a corpse but there sure was a lot of broken armor

Out of those three, one’s Deader than Dead, another had a Heel–Face Turn and the third has just came back for the Grand Finale. Yeah, no Plot Armour here…

Also, this quote from another forum I frequent should also explain why no-one’s talking about the show this week.

Can we please not do this. It is perfectly okay to prefer one over another, but Bad Batch and X-Men ‘97 are two completely different shows in a plot and structure and even how they fit into bigger franchises they are part of. Heck one is just entered second half of it’s first season while other is about to end in two episodes. I simply don’t think straight up comparisons work when it comes to determining which is “better”.

People tend to forget that shows where main cast dosen’t almost always win and gets out of situation with more than some issues and bruises thanks to Plot Armor , esspecaly death, are exception rather than a norm.

Edited by EmperorGeode on Apr 18th 2024 at 7:22:42 AM

Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any offence or start an argument here. I was just trying to defend my reasonings and using the above quote to hopefully deflect away from any such argument.

With all due respect, what do you mean by that…?

Gonna assume that you are referring to my statement about Plot Armor. I was simply saying that Bad Batch’s relathioship with it is generally more common in fiction, even if it’s not iron clad as Tech seems to be example of it being broken.

I am sorry if you felt it was directed at you personally, it wasn’t my intention at all.

Edited by EmperorGeode on Apr 18th 2024 at 7:42:38 AM

Yes, I was referring to your Statement and I disagree with that but won’t go into any further detail or discussion regarding my opinions for fear of derailing this thread.

As for your last sentence, I personally have no idea of what you’re talking about.

Now that the series is almost at its end its kinda weird how Cid just never appeared again after betraying the Batch in the season 2 finale.

Almost feels like she was just quickly written out after it became clear that she wasnt very popular with viewers.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t get Rhea Perlman back due to Barbie commitments.

Cid doesn't have anything the Bad Batch wanted. She was only a means for cover (and money), and that's now gone. Cid doesn't know where Hemlock is and it's quite clear she has broken the Bad Batch's trust.

What she represents is how even pursuing the life of a bounty hunter isn't going to keep them safe from the Empire. If you're going to survive with that career, you're going to need to be as cold-blooded as Boba Fett in his prime (and Boba soon learns how that turned out in the end).

The only path for the Bad Batch if they survive is a Clone Rebellion, the first of many rebellions to topple the Empire.

Yeah, there's a bit of hanging catharsis/closure there, but I do still give props to the writers for realizing the plot didn't have the time to veer off into a "the Batch get payback on Cid" subplot and just deciding to stay focused on what it was doing.

This is by far the most tightly focused season of the show, and I can buy them just deciding it wasn't a story that was adding to what they where adding.

They could've possibly pushed Cid into the story somehow, maybe made a plot out of the Empire going to interrogate her about Phee instead of doing that offscreen, etc, but its just as well. The season definitely isn't hurting for villains and/or conflicted bad guys as is.

Maybe the last scene of the show will be, like, an older Omega sauntering into Cid's bar Wild West-style or something.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 18th 2024 at 11:55:41 AM

He genuinely surprised how small a role Boba has played in this series, as logically he's also a non-reg clone.

Kind of weird to think that, from a certain point of view, Jango Fett is the most important character in the Star Wars mythology, given everything his progeny have done.

Edited by WillKeaton on Apr 19th 2024 at 2:13:49 AM

I’m not sure why we’re attributing the accomplishments of offspring to their parents, but even if that’s the case, it’s still Anakin Skywalker.

Well you could there wodn’t be Clone Wars if Jango hasn’t given his DNA to make clone army and Palpatine woudn’t create Empire for Skywalker family to defeat.

Even in your own argument for Jango being the most important character, you made him Palpatine’s pawn.

But if this is the game we want to play, then the Clone Wars don’t even happen if Anakin doesn’t foil Palpatine’s plans at Naboo ten years earlier. Still Anakin.

Not exactly, Clone Wars were already in preparation when Palpatine organised invasion of Naboo. It was just a play so Palpatine would control Republic when war started.

Anakin didn’t even truly foil him then since Palpatine was already on his way to chancellorship when Anakin destroyed Trade Federation ship.

Edited by EmperorGeode on Apr 19th 2024 at 4:15:40 AM

Do we know who the second choice for the clone trooper template was if they couldn't get Jango?