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Star Wars: The Bad Batch returns on February 21, 2024 on Disney+. With its new season, it wants to complete the broad, tragic, and immense story that remains to be told. The first half of the episodes that make up the last cycle are mainly focused on the organization of a grand finale but the main problem is that what we have seen seems too well studied and shows few results. At least the first eight episodes leave us continually suspended, while we would have expected more concreteness and first and foremost a crescendo of action and emotions.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Season 3: towards an epic finale
Star Wars: The Bad Batch 3 picks up where season two left off. After a sacrifice, the gang composed of Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair splits when Omega is taken to Mount Tantiss, an Empire base. One of the strengths of this latest season is the way it adds layers of detail to what we know of Star Wars lore, doing so as it did in season two, sometimes even slowing down the progression of the story. The Bad Batch continues to elevate animation style and techniques. The movements of the characters are no longer clumsy or robotic, after decades have become fluid, over the realistic and vibrant backgrounds and environments. We recognize a style that has developed to get better and better over the years. It's never looked better than now, right at the end of The Bad Batch's run, and we can't wait to find out where it goes, again.
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The series continues to elevate animation style and techniques
Among the positive aspects of the third season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch there is, as mentioned, the fantastic animation, but it also shows us the negative ones: a lot of periphrasis on cloning and how it is used, also many annoying examples of the growing cruelty of the Empire – especially with the way it treats the clones – then we spend a lot more time with Crosshair, who seems to be building a relationship with Omega… Some will say: all important to the world-building of The Bad Batch, for the most part development of its characters and for the advancement of the plot, but halfway through the sense of our anticipation vanishes. We have the impression that the best of the season is yet to come and there are too many questions still unanswered: but is this really the end of the clones' story? Did Tech survive its big fall in the Season 2 finale? We don't know yet, eh!
Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Season 3: rating and conclusion
To conclude, Star Wars: The Bad Batch 3 shows its darker side, and certainly continues to best summarize the spirit of Star Wars: humor, emotion, and reflection. Divided into fifteen episodes, it takes up its space (and your time) with an elaborate plot, controversial characters, and action sequences which, however, do not completely convince. However, the series created by Dave Filoni and produced by Lucasfilm Animation remains a great visual spectacle in terms of staging, artistic direction, character design, and computer graphics.
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