Now that the final season has finished, we figured it'd be the perfect time to sit down and talk about why The Bad Batch worked so well, both as a Clone Wars spinoff and a Star Wars series with a voice of its own.
After Clone Force 99 debuted in the final season of The Clone Wars and their spinoff show was rapidly announced, expectations weren't super high for yet another on-screen story about the Galactic Empire's reign of terror and oppression, an overdone point in the Star Wars timeline. There was, however, an interesting angle in telling the sudden transition from Republic to Empire through the eyes of clone troopers who had nowhere to go after the war they were created for ended. Were they anything other than soldiers who followed orders? What happened after there were no more orders to follow?
