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These were released a couple of months ago, i'm just dropping off the links for those who may not have seen it.

http://www.starwars.com/video/the-bad-b ... story-reel
http://www.starwars.com/video/a-distant ... story-reel
http://www.starwars.com/video/unfinishe ... story-reel
http://www.starwars.com/video/on-the-wi ... story-reel


Concept art
http://www.starwars.com/tv-shows/the-cl ... rt-gallery

http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars- ... elebration
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bad_Batch

I watched them when they were first released. Definitely worth checking out. As with the Utapau arc, you stop noticing the rough-cut quality of them after a while.

Possible (light) spoilers: Those criticisms aside, there are tons of things to enjoy in the episodes. There's a great moment involving Anakin's reaction to some pin-up art depicting a particular female character in a skimpy outfit.

Eggman wrote:I watched them when they were first released. Definitely worth checking out. As with the Utapau arc, you stop noticing the rough-cut quality of them after a while.

Possible (light) spoilers:

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While the episodes were fun to watch, I wasn't too fond of the "Bad Batch" concept. Their characters were too over-the-top for my taste, and really went against the whole notion of the Kaminoans disposing of any clones who don't meet their exact specifications. Even with the way they explain this exception in the episodes...it's been done before in other material.

Also: why can't characters just stay dead? The Star Wars universe is developing a really bad habit of bringing characters back from the dead. Boba Fett in the old EU was believable. Maul in The Clone Wars was at least redeemed by having a fantastic story arc. Minor characters like Admiral Trench (the CIS tarantula-alien guy)...sure, whatever. But at this point, it's getting ridiculous. There's only room for so many cyborgs in the galaxy. I propose that for every character resurrected in the future, two other characters have to be perma-killed.

Those criticisms aside, there are tons of things to enjoy in the episodes. There's a great moment involving Anakin's reaction to some pin-up art depicting a particular female character in a skimpy outfit.

Maul was stupid, did I love it? YES, does it make him more awesome that he can hold on to life just by the force? Yeah! Is it still a Darth Vader "NoooOOOOOOoooooo" moment? yeah!

But Echo? Echo makes scene, he got blown up a bit, but that isn't enough to mean instant death that arm was probally hacked off by shrapnel, but again, not fatal.

I don't normally watch there, I preffer to hear em as radio plays, but the design of the bad batch is cool. That said, I disagree with eggman, 99 (dispited being named like an ice-cream) was a more sinister concept, a failled batcher, who's existance depended on his ability to clean, I don't think the kaminians would kill eveything that silightly deviated to fett's template, Rex is blonde FFS, I think that they'd let them all grow up, if you need a cleaner and you have a clone not suitable for combat, then it's better to get some use out of him rather than termante him, the bad batch I think are a similar crew, if you saw the buy guy as cadet, you'd be like "Diet Dr. Pepper" can we get more of him for a close combat sqaud? Even if he has higher aggression, I can just imagine that sniper krushing ants, and nicking a DC-15 to shoot those anphibious thing out the sky on kamino, as for the techy one, clone need tech support too...