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

Omega and Crosshair are stealing the show

[movieturtle2013 · 10/10 · 13 March 2024]

This season is much more focused and slowly builds towards what is to come.

It takes its time with the development of the characters and their relationships towards one another while not cutting the action out of it. Ever since Crosshair is back the tensions are high as he keeps running into people he has a not so favorable past with, but Crosshair proves himself and that he shows that he is trustworthy. All the while the intrigue of his character remains. There is still so much we don't know about him and what happened to him on Tantiss, but the show slowly chips away that barrier. Through Omega we learn that Crosshair can care deeply about someone and that he is immensely loyal.

However much I like to gush over Crosshair and how he is written, the other clones get their moments. Through Wolffe we still see that clones that are with the empire still believe it is good, but this also begins to change. Rex is determined to get his brothers out of Tantiss and Hunter still has his squad's safety in mind. But with the empire chasing Omega, he is going to have to learn that perhaps facing them straight on might be the better option.

Overall, these episodes set up the final season wonderfully. It includes more important characters without a cheap ploy for nostalgia, ties past plot lines previously thought 'filler' together and presents fans with an animated epic that hits all the right spots. I hope it continues on like this.

Brothers in arms, brothers for life

[moritzherz · 8/10 · 13 March 2024]

Seeing Commander Wolff will return in this last season of the Bad Batch got me hyped up.

He is one of the countless brilliantly written characters the Clone Wars has gifted us. Connecting his story from the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels has been somwthing we were waiting for over 8 years now.

Rex and the Batch are still on the run from the empire and the special agent clone trooper. Deep in the forrest it comes to the battle between him and Crosshair. This is Crosshair closing his past with the empire, fighting the thing he should have become. Filoni and his crew choose a waterfall for this fight, which is a brilliant idea and looks awesome. With Houser's help Crosshair survives and they can reach Echo to pick them up. But before they can go the empire intercepts and down comes Commander Wolff himself.

This whole scene is just brilliant. The scenery, the music, the atmosphere has been chosen wisely. Wolffs squad of clone troopers stand in front of Rex team and the Bad Batch. Brothers in arms on both sides, once fighting side by side, no fighting each other. As Rex rightly points out, this was not supposed to happen, brothers in arms, means brothers for life, and who else but the legendary Commander Wolff wouldn't understand that? These two legends agree on this important part of the clone codex and so the Batch escapes.

Wow! You need some time to let these two episodes sink in. We already reached the mid-season finale and got so much to see. But there is still a lot coming for us in the remaining weeks and I personally can't wait to get the next Filoni magic! The attack on Mount Tantiss has to be planned carefully and as Rex mentioned correctly, they need a lot of allies to achieve their goals!

More great tension and excitement!

[and_mikkelsen · 9/10 · 27 March 2024]

This was another solid episode that continued from the previous episode in this exciting two part storyline about the batch escaping the threat of the empire!

Much like the previous episode, the team behind knows how to create tension and some thrilling action! This was edge of your seat with some great character moments!

Crosshair gets a lot of love as usual! This is the moment where we really see how far he has come since the beginning! He always believed in following orders, then he questioned those orders, and now we see him step up and defend his brothers and those he care about, fighting the very thing he could have become!

The inclusion of Wolff was great too as well as Rex, and it illustrates how the ideals of the clones still live on after the Clone Wars and order 66!

Things are deffinetely building towards something greater!

The escape

[Trey_Trebuchet · 9/10 · 19 March 2024]

Really solid continuation.

Wolff's back, a real treat for those who watched Clone Wars and/or Rebels and know what eventually becomes of him. I for one love the final scene. I think it's really satisfying emotionally speaking, but it also implies some really good tension in future episodes. Imagine Hemlock finding out about all of this and trying to get that entire team killed. Imagine an episode about all of them escaping and Wolff being the into survivor (the lone wolf) and that brings him to... where he is in Rebels.

Anyway, the whole episode was fun. Crosshair gets some more development and the exchanges between him and the clones was really good. Also starting to see where Omega's arc is kind of going. She's what's keeping some of these clones together in a way. It'll be interesting to see what transpires going forward.

I find it interesting that the "shadow" didn't die. I have no idea what's going to become of him but I'm anxious and excited.

A episode that could've been very good but it's held back by ONE scene.

[jasjkasjkasla · 6/10 · 14 March 2024]

Overall I will say that this episode is pretty good, the character work is good and it's less awkwardly told than last episode. I want to highlight the waterfall fight scene with Crosshair which was actually very cool! I also am happy to see Wolf again and hope we'll see him eventually join Rex's team especially since we see them together in Rebels. Considering all these things you'd think I'd say this is a very good episode however one scene holds it back from being a 7-8/10... The scene I'm talking about is the one where Wolf let's the heroes get away. I don't take issue with him letting them go but I do take issue with the fact that none of Wolf's fellow soldiers didn't try and do something I get he's their leader but capturing Omega is an extremely high priority for Hemlock and the Empire knows this. If this scene didn't exist I would've rated this episode higher.

Slightly less intreresting than last episode

[jaxxds · 5/10 · 14 March 2024]

This episode is basically a continuation of the previous episode, but a bit more action packed and less interesting in terms of story.

Most of the episode is Rex, Howzer, Nemec, and the bad batch escaping the base while the empire (both Wolfe and his men and the clone assassin) are chasing after them. Throughout the episode it's clear that the clone assassin is willing to do whatever it takes to capture Omega while Wolfe is annoyed that the assassin keeps using methods that could hurt or kill her, such as shooting down the small ship they tried to escape on. While everyone is trying to escape to meet Echo at a rendezvous point (Echo was flying the bad batch's ship to pickup Gregor), Howzer asks why Crosshair had a change of heart and Crosshair explains that loyalty meant everything to him but the empire didn't feel the same way and that he realized how disposable he was to them, which seems like it made Howzer more understanding of him, as he felt similarly. Crosshair ends up going toe to toe with the clone assassin and honestly gets beat pretty bad while the assassin quips about how Crosshair could have been one of them, The assassin even almost drowns Crosshair before Howzer saves him, showing the Howzer now trusts him. The ending is where it gets a bit sloppy, as Rex and everyone else are on a cliff and get surrounded by Wolfe and his men. A sort of reunion occurs and Wolfe says that he thought Rex was dead, KIA on the attack cruiser. Rex tells Wolfe that he lost a lot of good men that day, and today. Wolfe doesn't understand why Rex is there and fighting against them. Rex clarifies that he's not fight against Wolfe, he's fighting against the empire and explains that the empire has been experimenting on clones and imprisoning and killing others. Wolfe doesn't believe that until Rex tells him that Omega has seen it and Omega confirms it to be true and that's what is happening on Tantiss. Rex tries to offer Wolfe to help them and stand with them but Wolfe tells him that he is a soldier of the empire. Rex tells him that he's hunting after a child and that isn't him and he needs to start questioning orders despite his training, which is confusing. As a die hard Clone Wars fan, I don't exactly remember Wolfe being a clone that follows every order to a T and doesn't question them for a moment. And his chip clearly isn't active, since he just lets them go without saying anything and for some reason the rest of his troopers don't do anything either. Even if he told them all to stand down, why would none of them still try to capture Rex and the others because they're loyal to the empire? I legitimately thought this is where Wolfe would join Rex since he is found with him and Gregor in Rebels but I guess we have to wait for that, kind of like a Cody situation where he's loyal but eventually realizes what he's been doing and deserts the empire.

This episode was ok but it's was mostly just action and then an awkward ending. Also rip Nemec since he died in this episode.