‘The Bad Batch’ Season 2 Will Dive Deep Into Omega’s Origins; Character Posters Revealed
The Bad Batch is coming back in just a couple of days with its two-episode season 2 premiere, and after a few months of waiting, Lucasfilm has finally started to promote it. After revealing six character posters in the last days of 2022, some of the people involved in the making of the series have teased what we should expect from the new season.
Speaking to SFX Magazine (via Games Radar), supervising director Brad Rau said the following about the relationship between the Bad Batch and Omega:
“We have so much fun with these tough guy soldiers as the dads of Omega. In season one it was a new thing for them. Now that time has passed, we’re seeing how they’ve settled into those roles as a bunch of dads.”
Head writer Jennifer Corbett teased that there’s more to learn about Omega’s origins:
“We definitely continue with learning about Omega’s background, and the reasons why she was with [cloners] Nala Se and Lama Su on Kamino. But the Batch don’t care what she is. All they know is that she’s their sister, their squad member, and that’s it for them.”
In fact, during the final moments of season 1, we saw Nala Se meet an Imperial scientist wearing the same uniform as The Mandalorian‘s Dr. Pershing, which, according to Rau, was no coincidence:
“That’s not a coincidence, but I don’t want to talk too much about what’s going on there. We’ve got to leave some things in the dark, but we do get into all of that, one hundred per cent.”
Omega was confirmed in season 1 to be essentially Boba Fett’s sister, though Corbett did say that the new season will not be exploring that relationship, and viewers should not expect Boba Fett to make an appearance:
“Where Boba Fett is at this moment is a very different path to Omega’s. They’re on different journeys at the moment.”
The first two episodes will give us a sense of what we can expect from the new, 16-episode season. They will come out on Wednesday, January 4, but while we wait, check out the six character posters that were revealed last week:
On Wednesday, make sure to stay tuned for our non-spoiler review of the first 14 episodes, which we were very fortunate to see early, and also come back for our episodic, spoiler-ish discussions on the first two.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
