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Some thought thisday would never come , but here we are : after years away , thinking it was gone for good , The Clone Warshas turn back . And as far as it ’s pertain , it ’s like it never went away .

“ The Bad Batch ” is both a intimate and peculiar return to the beloved invigorate Star Wars show . Clone Wars has been off the air ever since Netflix delivered us the“Lost Missions ” seasonin 2014 , a mathematical group of sequence finished off after the then - recently - take Lucasfilm had canceled Clone Wars after its 5th season . In the eld since , the stamp and crew behind the show have given fan peek behind the pall , chances to seewhat could ’ve beenif the show had continued . Now it has , using those same ideas discuss at formula panels and interviews — and even , at some point , uploaded in unfinished , animatic grade to the Star Wars site — lastly take to a pure life sentence .

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Say hello to Clone Force 99.

Say hello to Clone Force 99.Image: Lucasfilm

It creates this almost overwhelming sensation : There ’s an inherent absurdity to the idea that Clone Wars just picks up storylines and grapheme measure , sans significant levels of account , like there have not been six years since the show was regularly on the air . But there ’s also a warmth to it , an almost innocent conversancy that bosom that its fan have been on this journey for so long and are so impassioned , that the show is good to pluck those round up and track down with them . “ Welcome back , ” Clone Wars pronounce to you . “ You are among Quaker . ”

It is this juxtaposition between the intimate and the new that drives much of the premiere . It ’s the Clone Wars you be intimate and love , same as always — right back into the Republic vs. Separatist conflict , and things are n’t looking too hot for our heroes on the planet Anaxes , where the Clone regular army have been beaten back to the point of near - defeat .

There are fights to be had , and for Captain Rex , loiter uncertainty about the mature human cost of the conflict , as his beleaguered thoughts linger on friends lost along the way . Most notably for Rex , two losses eat away at him : Echo , who perished in the climax of the show ’s third time of year , and Fives the ARC Trooper , who infamously nearly discovered theexistence of Order 66 in the “ Lost Missions ” arc . For Rex , the conversancy of the war is all too substantial , especially on reality like Anaxes where the Republic is fight a lose battle .

The Republic is having a bad time on Anaxes.Image: Lucasfilm

“ The Bad Batch ” is full of such battles itself , an action packed reintroduction to the show which paradoxically feels veracious at home with the Clone Wars you know and love , and yet also displays two new and very exciting thing fetch to the tabular array in this last season . First is the natural process itself : The series has never look and sounded as it does in this episode , not just from a basic visual level of textural or spiritedness quality — those too have been bumped up from even the heights of the series ’ best work in the past , a continue phylogeny from the show ’s rougher origins into one of the best look 3D quicken shows on television set .

But from a direction and cinematographic horizon , Clone Wars has never feel this dynamic or vivid either . The camera sweep and pivots through multiple battle sequences here that almost feel fancy to the compass point of picture off ; extended trailing shots make Rex and his fellow dead ringer trooper feel almost John Wick - ian . If there is one immediate welfare to Clone Wars pick up six years later , it ’s this : The show just repeatedly flexes on itself , it knows how great it looks , and it ’s an almost constant delight to watch it do so .

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The Republic is having a bad time on Anaxes.Image: Lucasfilm

The other novel thing these battles convey to the table are its participants : the nominal “ Bad Batch ” . Clone Force 99 , as they ’re officially designated , are an elect force of troopers who were genic mutation of the Kaminoan cloning process . It ’s an approximation Clone Wars has tackled before — in fact , the team take their name from a defect clon of the same number feature back in the show ’s third time of year premiere . His strong-arm abnormality prevent him from being a frontline soldier , so he was left to do upkeep work while his fellow clones educate to be heroes . The Bad Batch , however , is the inverse ; their abnormalities give each of them what are basically superhuman abilities in the chassis of enhanced sleight , intelligence , and effectiveness , create an inadvertent elite task force that can singlehandedly turn the lunar time period of a conflict .

This is an intriguing concept , even if Clone Wars really only has space in its 22 - hour runtime to explore it through the act of the Bad Batch repeatedly and consecutively kick battle droid fanny , decimating wave after wave with vivid and lethal preciseness . But the Batch ’s drafting into the beleaguering on Anaxes also produce an interesting inner battle for Rex , his feelings about losing so many good , social station - and - file men brushing up against receive to deal with a grouping of clones who operate outside of that moral force . Not just in their laissez - faire approach to authority but by the fact they are avatar of some almost amatory apotheosis : clones , but hero dead ringer , so unspoiled that they can ostensibly get over the unsufferable time and time again .

In a point in the Star Wars timeline where the Clone Wars have clearly drag on for too long — somewhat much approaching their ending — the Bad Batch represents a complex sea of emotion for the good maitre d’hotel to contend with , a welcome profoundness for Rex to continue developing . They also represent a riveting chance for Rex that creates a climax to this episode that the show will preserve to dive into in this first story bow .

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Rex goes on the attack in one of the episode’s many brilliant setpieces.Image: Lucasfilm

Squad 99 ’s arrival on Anaxes allows Rex to finally push the advantage . Together , they bring out that the breakaway military unit there have been able to counter Republic battle tactic with the help of a exist bid computer , seemingly go on plans and tactic that only one knockoff Rex knows could be making : the antecedently assumed dead Echo . If he is indeed alive , Rex has the prospect to preserve his friend , and reclaim some sense of jurist and at least one fatal accident of this costly , on-going warfare . But if he is , and the separationist have really become him into this survive strategical shelling , then Echo may be , just like Rex and the Bad Batch themselves , another form of shift dupe of the Clone War , a tool created for difference whether he wants that purpose or not .

We ’ll discover out next week how it all goes down for , as always with Clone Wars , the conflict is far from over yet . Returned , the Clone Wars have — and we would n’t have it any other way .

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