Star Wars: The Bad Batch (TV Series) Confined (2024) User Reviews

An intrigueing start!

[and_mikkelsen · 9/10 · 21 February 2024]

The final season starts of with a mature episode, with mystery and a bit of suspense and tension!

To me this was a great way to begin after the season 2 finale as it allows for an introduction to what the whole series has been about: what is the deal with Omega and the clones, and why does the empire need her?

I loved that finale season did not begin with filler!

This episode was also character centered as it allowed for us to see more of Omega, and of course Crosshair! The scenes with him and her were the best! You can tell, just be the look on his face, how conflicted he is! The cause he believed in and fought for, might all have been in vain! He experienced the consequences of what It meant to follow his ideals!

I am very excited for this season and to see where it all goes from here!

A great start

[nijego-17458 · 9/10 · 29 February 2024]

I love the dark and suspenseful feeling of this episode. If you think this episode is boring you're probably not able to see more in a scene than what it screams right in your face. This episode uses it's slow pace to make you think about what you're seeing. How horrible it is that a small child is trapped for these reasons. How she craves for a normal life like she's seen on the island last season. How Crosshair regrets the things he's done. None of this is really subtle or actually deep but it gets you thinking. It helps characterize the shows protagonists and it's world. It builds up tension, shows us how hopeless the situation is. The show is on a constant Balance between being a show for adults and for kids, like all Star Wars. And episodes like this one are for the adults. How can you call this episode boring, compared to the hundreds of unexciting Base Infiltrations/Exfiltrations or "BringMeThisItem"-Missions we had in CW and BB.

Off to a great start

[patronus · 8/10 · 9 March 2024]

This is honestly one of the best TV episodes I've seen in past year. I love the patient, suspenseful storytelling that carefully sets up Omega's situation and her goals. The character design shows that she has grown just a bit physically, and it's established that she is growing more independent. But will she be able to meet this test?

In this episode we see Omega's intelligent and principled defiance (her rebelliousness, if you will) and watch and she begins to realize that her heroic and caring heart could lead her into danger as much as it can help her.

Classic writing, elegantly executed. Another reminder that the Star Wars cartoons have quietly become one of the very best parts of the franchise. And I'm thrilled with the casting of Keisha Castle-Hughes and eager to see how her character unfolds.

Pretty serious.

[suvechhabose · 9/10 · 21 February 2024]

Slow cinematography. Ominous development. Great to see Omega with long hair . Call me a kid , if this is a kid's show . Its great to be a kid. I am tremendously greatful towards Dave for keeping the show & its characteristics intact. If you're a clone wars fan from early days This is the Good News for you.

Considering its the last season of Clone wars continuation This just feels atmospheric. Chilly, down right to the backbone.

The score is sad whenever Omega sees crosshair Nala se is interesting. We shall watch her career with great interest .

The older Omega hides a lot more secrets than she's revealing. I hope they keep her alive for quite a lot more stuff . Make her do , make her take actions .

Confine me why don't you

[Trey_Trebuchet · 8/10 · 13 March 2024]

A pretty solid start to the season. No heists, no rescue missions, no treasure hunts... Just a look at the grave mundanity of imprisonment even if you aren't always locked in a cell.

Omega has always been one of the least interesting Bad Batch characters to me, but this episode at least made me feel for her. I feel like this season could potentially showcase Omega's strengths in a way that's not so forced or just annoying to watch, an issue I sort of had with the first couple of seasons. Turns out all they had to do was make her the main character for an episode.

I'll be very curious to see what the writers do with Crosshair. And Emerie.

It's a really well directed episode that doesn't feel like it's aimed at kids. I just want most of the show to have this kind of tone and hopefully less filler.

Also, the project they're working on is for the eventual cloning of Palpatine right? Is that the case? Is it not? I'll be curious to see where that goes either way.

Good start.

Bold filmmaking

[morimuraseira · 9/10 · 8 March 2024]

This episode was a risky undertaking. It's dark, moody, quiet and measured. Not things you expect in an animated action series aimed at young audiences. But that's what makes it compelling.

We see the passage of time, which is so rare in animation. They allow the story to take it's time and show the pain and loneliness of Troop 99's separation. The drudgery and boredom of captivity. The banality of cruelty. You don't expect these things here, so hopefully these themes land better with the audience.

I have nothing but respect for the team that made this episode. I wish more shows would take risks like this.

You can't kill Star Wars

[moritzherz · 8/10 · 21 February 2024]

Star Wars The Bad Batch goes into its final season. This is not just the conclusion of a great show, this is the finalisation of the greatest animated show of all time, Star Wars The Clone Wars. Ladies and gentlemen you are witnessing the last magnum opus of the creator himself. You are watching the work of George Lucas.

The season starts with Omega, who is still trapped by the empire on Tantiss, where she works as an assistance to Lama Sei. The episode focuses on her daily life in the facility, a place fully eradicated of human values. She makes the best out of it, but it is only a matter of time until the empire will find out how to use Omega for their project necromancer.

This first episode had me within the first seconds. Coming from a period of nothingness in the last 6 months, this show hits like a bomb. Everything is on the highest level of quality. Writing, scoring, animation. People say Disney killed Star Wars and I agree. But it still lives because of shows like this and it proves that the franchise will live forever.

Having grown up with Star Wars The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch feels like the last missing part of my childhood. A nostalgia driven masterpiece filling the bathtubes with tears of joy. It is an honor having the chance of witnessing another magnum opus of the biggest franchise humanity has created. Let us walk on this last journey together! With Filoni, with Kiner, for Lucas!

The Bad Batch Season 3 Episode 1 - Review

[ChaosChildSammy · 7/10 · 22 February 2024]

I lked seeing more of Mount Tantiss.anjd Wayland, it was nice to see more about what's happening with Project Necromancer, though I'm not sure what they really ned Omega for, it was said before that they needed her so that Nala Se would do her work and cooperate with the empire, but now it seems like she is a important asset to them, given that her blood has the highest M-count.

I like the dark setting of the episode and the fact that Nala Se is destroying the blood samples taken on Omega, so that the empire won't succeed. I like that the sample holder looks like a clock and time is running out.

I liked the moments between Omega and Batcher, I thought they were nice moments.

The animation and music was good.

I loved that line "The flawed logic of a child"

I feel like Emerie really cared for Omega when Hemlock was like "anything more to say?" and Omega was standing up to him.

A good continuation of the second season.

[jasjkasjkasla · 7/10 · 22 February 2024]

After a very good season finale that set up a lot of potential for the show I am happy to say that as a continuation this is pretty good! The focus on environment building, setting up intriguing questions and Omega is refreshing for the show. It's definitely a bit of a slower burn but I appreciate that. Only reason this is just a good episode is because it doesn't really do anything that is particularly outstanding or anything, which is fine but I would've appreciated some more character building on other characters as well maybe. Overall though this is a pretty good introduction to the season!

Boooorrrrrrrriiinnnggg

[jami-imaj · 2/10 · 24 February 2024]

One of the most boring things I've seen in the history of boring things; like watching paint dry, or water dripping. And by the way what the heck was up with that !!???? Several scenes were just water dripping out of a faucet and into a sink, or blood dripping into a vial, just slow monotonous stuff. I love all things star wars and have even really liked the bad batch for the first two seasons and was really looking forward to this season, mostly because I had read that they may bring back my favorite villain and tell a part of her story that was only told in books, anyway I have to say, this episode, boring.

Waste of your time

[jaxxds · 1/10 · 22 February 2024]

Holy does this episode provide absolutely nothing except a weak attempt at linking the research they are conducting in the facility to the sequels with Palpatine ordering for them to test for midichlorian cloning. Apart from that this entire episode's "premise" is just Omega is in the facility helping with research and taking care of the animals, Nala Se keeps discarding Omega's blood samples, I guess foreshadowing that Omega somehow has blood compatible with midichlorians (I'm sure that'll never be explain). Omega also sees Crosshair regularly but he is defeated and keeps telling her to leave without him. He even gets mad at her when she says that the female scientist will help them because she's a clone too (don't even ask me how there's now just female clones, the show just breezes by that fact) and Crosshair says that she's too trusting and that not every clone is her ally. Omega retorts that Crosshair doesn't trust enough which is down right infuriating. Omega is not in the right yet the show portrays her as if she's much smarter than Crosshair. Overall, a terrible start to the final season.

This was like an Anbore episode where

[terrylarosa · 2/10 · 25 February 2024]

Absolutely nothing happened; or even worse like a Dennis Villanueve movie where nothing happens for long stretches and we get scenes of people puttering around aimlessly. When will they realize that NORMAL SW fans want to see action as well a good story with thrills and suspense. Not people sulking and staring at the walls. What nonsensical nothingness. I truly hope this was an aberration and not how future episodes will be. It didn't even have most of the regular cast. While I like Omega she can't carry an episode on her own. As I'm starting to watch the second episode thankfully it seems to be back on track. Leave the boring scenes where they belong. On the worst SW show ever, Anbore. Bad Batch is not supposed to be bad.

Meh concept with meh execution

[sevskirita · 5/10 · 4 March 2024]

This episode is a super basic escape story, prisoner empathizing with enslaved animal, longing for escape, looking for escape, trying to impress their belief of escape on other prisoners, etc etc etc. There's nothing new about any of the concepts introduced nor is the dialogue, visual presentation, sound, pacing, or anything else standout in any way.

While yes it's not bad, it's boringly average. What Filoni's missed moving from action adventure to more drama-focus stories is that if you're going to pick a new genre, you have to stick with it and do what makes that genre worked. Clone Wars worked because while many of the stories and characters and moral questions were simple, it was a fun action adventure that excelled in that front.

Nothing about this episode excelled. The best drama makes use of more thoughtful dialogue, pacing, etc and can't any longer get away with the simplistic thematic elements like this episode attempts. You can't do drama if you aren't willing to do what makes drama compelling, just stick with action adventure.

So, I give it a 5/10. Super average not much to latch onto.