I enjoyed The Bad Batch, Season 1, an animated series on Disney+. The formula for episodes of The Bad Batch over both Seasons 1 & 2 is Missions. No longer employed by the Empire, clones Hunter, Wrecker, Echo, Tech and Omega are just keeping a low profile in the Galaxy Far Far Away trying to survive. They make a living by doing odd jobs and mercenary missions while trying to avoid any Imperial entanglements.
Where Hunter, the leader of the group of clones, was the focus of Season 1, Season 2 focuses on young Omega, who has become an effective bounty hunter/mercenary herself and a valued member of the clone squad.
While all of The Bad Batch characters can be inexpressive at times, Hunter can frequently be a bit wooden. Omega tends to light up the screen when she’s featured. Despite Omega’s youth and naivety, she’s bright and brave.
If you’re a Star Wars fan, you’ll enjoy this latest 16 episode series. GRADE: B
I’m thinking of, say, Ibsen staged with SW characters. Coming sooner rather than later…assuming some boho troop hasn’t already…
Todd, maybe Ibsen but most of the THE BAD BATCH episodes remind me of movie serials of the 1930s.
Utterly off-topic:
One the small pleasures of watching US tv (Eastern Time) at 4am is THE CBS MORNING NEWS anchored by Anna-Marie Green; the mild joy of watching reportage of the somewhat mealy-written tribute being paid to Lorne Michaels by PEN, the writers/editors/publishers organization, a Service Award to be bestowed upon him for “uproarious and fearless political sketches that Changed TV Forever” with a presumably 3 or 4ish-AM-entered chiron reading “Honoring Michael Lorne”…is also shortly thereafter slapped down with the first report I’ve picked up about the San Mateo County (where my parents spent their last years and I worked remotely some years earlier with good folks at KCSM-TV, the tiny College of San Mateo PBS station martyred by the Shrub Bush FCC) mass-shooting of 8 people, 7 immediately fatally, rounding out the weekend of Cali wholesale human targeting.
Sorry, “political and social sketches” was the citation as read off by Green.
I suspect the chiron will be corrected for the 7AM CBS NEWS online version:
https://www.cbsnews.com/cbs-news-mornings/
…while that will have more details of the Oakland shootings (only one murder at this hour).
Todd, even in Buffalo not a weekend goes by without someone getting shot (and usually killed).
And I plead the hour in writing “Anna” instead of Anne-Marie Green.
Todd, you need more sleep.
Todd, I’m sickened and saddened by the San Mateo slaughter. More senseless shooting in the U.S.
Really haven’t watched any STAR WARS since the original and don’t really care to. Still reeling from the fact that Vader is Luke’s father. (Hope that isn’t a spoiler for many people.)
Seeing the first film in 1977, aged 12, was a remarkable experience of hype over content. Liked the second one better, and have only seen some of the sequels since as a moviegoing Good Sport (mosrty) with Alice. She gave up after the 6th film. I’ll definitely believe any given later project was better, on average, than what I’ve seen.
Todd, I know a couple people who have seen the first STAR WARS movies over 100 times. I’m not in that category, but I will watch the Disney+ STAR WARS spinoff series. George Lucas created a fascinating world and I like visiting it on TV.
Jerry, I enjoy STAR WARS and STAR TREK spinoffs, both dramatic and animated. There’s a little 12-year-old kid in me that enjoys this type of entertainment.
My wife and I are fans of “real SF” and she also loves fantasy like Game of Thrones but all the Star Wars varieties were too childish for us.
I watched the first 3 movies and was really disappointed – just Kitsch!
Wolf, STAR WARS is aimed at a much younger audience than you and your wife. Sophisticated Science Fiction falls more in the realm of Philip K. Dick movies.
Or at least Dick’s better fiction! And the cleverer films. Sometimes, things just go to the same well too often…on broadcast in the US at this moment, THE WINCHESTERS on the CW network is third or fourth-gen BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, while on CBS, FBI is too-familiar suspense hugger-mugger (LAW & ORDER crossed with every supposedly high-powered investigation drama of the last several decades)…both good enough to sit through on a slow night, but not as good as they should be.
Todd, network ratings continue to decline. Some propose to stop broadcasting network dramas at 10 P.M. each night. Cable companies feel the hurt from streaming channels like Netflix and AMAZON Prime Video.