Book #138 of 2025: Star Wars: Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel by Lamar Giles The animated Star Wars series The Bad Batch ended in 2024 after a respectable run of 47 episodes, so I’m a little confused about this new title that just came out, more than a year later. It does not appear to …
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TV #18 of 2024: Star Wars: The Bad Batch, season 3 A satisfactory enough conclusion to this corner of the Star Wars franchise, but not one that really pushes the titular characters anywhere exciting. Mostly, the season seems built to lay plausible retroactive groundwork for the infamous “Somehow Palpatine survived” line from the movie The …
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TV #14 of 2023: Star Wars: The Bad Batch, season 2 The first year of this Clone Wars spinoff was a surprisingly propulsive affair, but this sophomore season struggles to recapture and maintain that sense of momentum. It’s still a solid delivery of weekly Star Wars thrills — although I question the decision to have …
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TV #90 of 2021: Star Wars: The Bad Batch, season 1 My expectations weren’t high going into this recent Clone Wars spinoff, as I generally found that parent show to be of variable quality and didn’t think these particular ‘defective clone’ figures made much of an impression beyond a gimmick during their brief appearance there. …
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