The Clone Wars Legacy: Watch “The Bad Batch” Animatics Online.

Bad BatchAt Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, Dave Filoni and Lucasfilm unveiled four animatics of unfinished episodes of The Clone Wars. These episodes were known as “The Bad Batch” arc, which was about Clone Force 99, team of mutant Clone Troopers, on an operation to liberate Anaxes from Admiral Trench – alongside Captain Rex and Anakin Skywalker – and their attempt to rescue an ally previously believed to have perished in battle.

 

I have to say that, even in an unfinished state, “The Bad Batch” is some of the most fun I’ve had watching The Clone Wars. The episodes are a bit lighter than many episodes this late into the show, making for a welcome reprieve. That’s not to say that the story doesn’t go into dark places, though – what happened to Echo after his near-death experience in the Citadel is not a pretty sight. The episodes are also easily the funniest – I won’t spoil the details for you guys, but I will say that the scenes of Anakin discovering a certain piece of art on Clone Force 99’s transport and Mace Windu’s “negotiation” scene drew quite a bit of laughter from the Celebration crowd – myself included!

 

Without further ado, you can catch these episodes on the official Star Wars website.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

21 thoughts on “The Clone Wars Legacy: Watch “The Bad Batch” Animatics Online.

  • April 29, 2015 at 9:40 pm
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    Leia #3 comic has Sullust in it. Looks like the cave from Vietnam

  • April 29, 2015 at 9:51 pm
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    Sweet! Ill be watching these tonight, just got YouTube to work on my big screen!

    • April 29, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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      Chromecast or Smart TV? Either way whatching the TFA trailer on my Big screen on command in 1080p is so enjoyable!

      • April 29, 2015 at 10:36 pm
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        I use a Roku stick, and the Yahoo App on my iPhone to toss it to the TV. TFA Trailer was the first thing I watched, lol.

  • April 29, 2015 at 10:22 pm
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    I realize it’s unfinished but this just makes the fact that the animation in this series is atrocious all the more obvious. Bad move on their part, IMO.

    • April 29, 2015 at 10:37 pm
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      Really? I always thought the animation in this was so good. Even before i liked the show. I wish Rebels looked as good, although i still enjoy it

    • April 29, 2015 at 10:38 pm
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      You can’t be serious?

      • April 29, 2015 at 10:40 pm
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        Well, i mean its not Lord of the Rings, but it still has a lot of detail for a cartoon. I used to use 3D programs and that stuff aint easy!

        • April 30, 2015 at 2:37 pm
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          Uhh… In my opinion they did a good work on LOTR around animations themselves, not that much on putting them in real environment. In the two towers Gollum ineracting with the hobbits sometimes looks as fake as Jar Jar interacting with others in the phantom menace…

    • April 30, 2015 at 8:35 am
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      It is an animatic.

    • April 30, 2015 at 2:41 pm
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      You do realize we’re talking about uncompleted animations? The animation in the rest of the series was great. Details were a little sloppy in the first season, but managed to become very good and by the end of the series we had very complete animations going on.

  • April 29, 2015 at 11:46 pm
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    episode order?

  • April 30, 2015 at 5:01 am
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    I liked it alot the bad batch clones were badass. I really felt bad for Echo at first he looked like a Borg.

  • April 30, 2015 at 2:42 pm
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    What will happen to the Bad Batch? that vader theme at the end made me think bad…

  • April 30, 2015 at 4:14 pm
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    Are these episodes on the same par as the finished Clone Wars series? Namely, are they canon?

    • April 30, 2015 at 10:16 pm
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      All untold TCW stories are treated as canon. They’ll all get out eventually.

  • April 30, 2015 at 6:15 pm
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    I was wondering about the mutations the bad batch have does that mean that they will no longer age fast like the other clones. The Vader theme also made me think bad things for them. I hope this is can bc I would love to see the bad batch could be in Rebels I hope as good guys. But with the Vader theme I am thinking they are going to used to help kill off the Jedi ong side Vader.

  • April 30, 2015 at 6:31 pm
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    I’m surprised how watchable those animatics were.

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