Five reasons why you should still be watching Star Wars: The Bad Batch

With Star Wars: The Bad Batch winding down with its third and final season, here are five reasons why you should stick with the show.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch is currently streaming on Disney+, with the Dave Filoni-created animated series in its third and final season. With only a handful of the 16 episodes remaining, this might well be the last time we get to see Clone Force 99 in action, so fans of a galaxy far, far away who may not have been following the show should definitely check it out before it reaches its climax.

The Bad Batch has only made a few appearances in LEGO Star Wars sets to date, the most recent being the inclusion of Omega and Hunter minifigures in 75323 The Justifier. However, the show’s many characters, vehicles and galactic locations could potentially lend themselves to more brick-built models at some point, although none are featured in this year’s current LEGO Star Wars rumours.

The show will wrap up over the next few months, with two episodes being released on some weeks, leading up to the series finale on May 1. That means Star Wars: The Bad Batch will end just before this year’s annual May the 4th event, an occasion that has even more significance in 2024 as it’s also the 25th anniversary of both The Phantom Menace and the LEGO Star Wars theme itself.

If you’ve not been following Star Wars: The Bad Batch so far or simply stopped watching after the first two seasons, then here are five reasons why you should stick with the animated series for its third and final outing.

More minifigure potential

The full Clone Force 99 squad has already appeared in minifigure form in the now retired 75314 The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle. However, the look of the characters continues to evolve from season to season, so more iterations would certainly be welcomed. There are also other key characters from the show that have yet to be immortalised in minifigure form, such as the scheming Dr Hemlock, clone scientist Emerie Karr and Delta Squad’s RC-1262 aka Clone Commander Scorch.

New ships

If the LEGO Star Wars design team is looking for ideas for new ship models, then Star Wars: The Bad Batch could provide plenty of inspiration. For starters there’s the Remora, a transport liberated by Echo that’s still in use by the team, or even the Imperial V-Wing, a vessel that hasn’t appeared as a LEGO Star Wars set since 2014’s 75039 V-Wing Starfighter.

Getting the band back together

If you stopped watching after Season 1, then *Spoilers* you might be unaware that Tech recently gave his life saving the team. Despite Echo leaving to accompany Rex on missions in Season 2, the clone is now back with the squad, as are Omega and even Crosshair, both of whom recently escaped from Dr Hemlock’s Mount Tantis installation. Whether Clone Force 99 can overcome their differences and free their captured clone brothers from the clutches of the Empire has yet to be revealed.

The Emperor’s grand plan

Palpatine himself is a key player in Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 and is clearly collaborating with Hemlock on a super-secret plan. Fan theories suggest that the pair have been using Kaminoan technology and the coerced Nala Se to create clones of The Emperor himself, allowing the villain to live on past his death in Return of the Jedi and his eventual re-emergence in The Rise of Skywalker.

The final season

With upcoming episode titles such as ‘Point of no Return’ and ‘Into the Breach,’ it certainly seems as if Star Wars: The Bad Batch could be heading towards an explosive conclusion. There’s no way of knowing at this stage if all (or any) of Clone Force 99 will make it safely across the finish line, but their lack of appearances later on in the Star Wars saga might indeed be a little foreboding.

However, we’re hoping the team does indeed live to fight another day, potentially joining the fledgling Rebellion of the time and continuing their battle against the oppressive Galactic Empire.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch is currently available for all Disney+ subscribers to stream, with new episodes dropping on the platform every Wednesday.

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