The Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 1 Reaction | Aftermath 

Kudos to Dee Bradley Baker and Michelle Ang for carrying a great animated series.

It's like Order 66 basically reset the clones back to factory settings. Any character without their helmets is such a nice way to distinguish the Bad Batch being somewhat immune to Order 66. The fact that the regs no longer remove their helmets makes them faceless and terrifying to even approach now. Tragic.

"Good soldiers follow orders"

I love that the in-universe explanation for why the Clones aren't in OT is due to budget cuts.

The Bad Batch is some of my favorite Star Wars content

You've seen Caleb before in season 7 of Clone Wars (very, very briefly in a briefing with his master, who is killed here during order 66). You have also seen him and his master in the Tales of the Jedi episode where Ahsoka is in a training room practising with her light saber. And trying to avoid spoilers, but at the same time convey something exceptionally significant, there is another series you plan to watch where you will see him again: he is no small character in Star Wars, and one of my favourite ever Star Wars characters, in one of my favourite ever series. A real hero in my books.

The Jedi child Kaleb had a cameo in Tales of the Jedi watching Ahsokas trial at the temple with his master.

My leading theory on why Crosshair was still effected by Order 66 is that his mutation deviated the least from a standard clone.

This is the first time watching episode one post the show finale and it brought me so many feelings seeing it again after three seasons of emotion. I definitely teared up.

Time for a really fun fact: the big Training Droids, those are DT series sentinel droids. They were based on the old 1994 dark forces game. Back then they were just called dark troopers. This is an exaggeration of what they’ve looked back in that game. You can actually get a copy of it right now it’s been relatively remastered. Anyway, these sentinel droids will become a mainstay of the empires armament protecting installations, automated, cargo transports, and such. And they are a new type of enemy to be fought in Jedi: Survivor. The DT is a call back to the original name dark troopers. Really interesting though is that they are still from the same general manufacturer that made Moff Gideon’s dark troopers from Mandalorian season two. Seans sent you can call them phase: zero dark troopers. Even though technically those Droids from the game we’re like big T-800s from Terminator just a robot skeletons with a big blade on the arm.

Dee Bradley Baker's talent as a voice actor is nothing shy of remarkable, playing not only all the Regs but each distinct member of the Bad Batch. The concept of loyalty is a very important theme to this series, loyalty to your squad, loyalty to your family (all the clones are Brothers and Omega their little sister) and how loyalty can change as the thing you serve, the ideals and the politics change.

Master Depa Billaba was trained under Mace Windu. You can see her in live action in The Phantom Menace at the end standing next to Windu. She probably fought at Geonosis as well. Not sure.

Spent over a year watching your clone wars reaction and I’m excited for another whole year for bad batch and rebels

Your gonna love this show

You probably already know this but the Bad Batch were voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who did Appa, Momo and all the other strange creatures (and even some of the humans!) in Avatar the Last Airbender. Also, Dave Filoni! He worked on the first book of ATLA, but left when he got the opportunity to fulfil his dream of working on the Star Wars franchise.

In retrospect, I don't think this show ever puts a foot wrong. I've enjoyed The Bad Batch from series start to finish and wouldn't hesitate recommending the show.

Just a reminder, you have seen Caleb Dume in clone wars season seven and Tales of the Jedi. And there’s a reason why he’s being played by Freddie Prinze Junior. This character is the first original Disney character to appear in the new Canon. For the first five years this era, there had been novel, a comic book, and an entire TV show around this character.

Bad Batch is my absolute favourite piece of Star Wars media I'm so glad you're getting to experience it

I love the fact you guys are watching this show. It’s great from start to finish, and the very last episode is just the best

J-19 is mentioned in the Clone Wars, in a season 2 episode if you were looking for clues as to where they might be going.

You are in for such a wild ride in this series!! This is my first time watching the first episode since the finalé….you are both going to love this series❤

Awesome to seeing you both reacting to this. Hope you have both been well and having fun! Great to see your channel taking off more and more.

I am happy that you will follow up the Bad Batch with Rebels. The latter is my favorite SW media. I love all of the Batch, specially Omega, she truly is special. But as for Crosshair, not only is the chip taking effect on him but without spoiling specifics, Crosshair is the type that DOESN'T want free will.

Tech saying you're more machine than sounded exactly like what Obi-Wan said about Vader. Echo's "not again" implies that these food fights happen all the time. 😂😂 Wrecker's stalling in the prison cell was too funny. 🤣🤣 Seeing Crosshair become that way he became was sad to see. The music made it even more saddening. 😭😭

I'm glad Ken said it because if he didn't I was ready to call out Tarkin on that Stormtrooper record vs a Clones record in combat.

There's more to Tech than him just being the smart one. Hopefully you'll pick up on it

I love that she tries to throw metal horns, but it ends up as the ASL sign for "I love you"

At first I was like why does the girl have an Australian accent. Then I realised the actor who played Jango Fet was from New Zealand and it’s actually perfect 👍 omega can shoot as she has Jango Fets Mando blood 🩸 she is just a female clone. She is called omega for a reason no spoilers

Couldn’t be more perfectly timed, just finished this series myself. Can’t wait to witness it again with you both🙌

Good soldiers follow orders is such a creepy quote now

Lol the dog past out in your arms 😂

Wasn't expecting to see this in my subscription feed yesterday; in the words of our favorite Emperor: A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Sorry I'm late, it's been a rough few days, but I'm doing better now. Bad Batch is another fantastic series from Dave Filoni, I think you're going to have fun with it. Omega has become one of my favorite characters in the new canon. Just to get it out of the way, she is also a clone of Jango Fett. Like Tech says, she is the fifth enhanced clone in addition to the Bad Batch (minus Echo of course), and the enhanced clones all have different mutations, with one of Omega's being her gender. Her voice actress, Michelle Ang, is from New Zealand, which is also where Temuera Morrison (the actor who played Jango Fett and the clones in the movies) is from. Just wanted to get that out of the way before we get into the rest of the fun facts; speaking of which, let's go ahead and get into our first fun facts for the Bad Batch! The opening sequence of the episode recreates several scenes from Revenge of the Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi killing a headless IG-100 MagnaGuard, Anakin Skywalker killing OOM security battle droids to rescue Chancellor Sheev Palpatine (yes, Palpatine's first name is Sheev. Funnily enough, this name wasn't revealed until the 2014 novel Tarkin by James Luceno), General Grievous in his escape pod, and a shuttle going to Utapau. The opening scene takes place on the planet Kaller and we also get to meet Master Depa Billaba and her Padawan Caleb Dume again. The scene depicting Order 66 on Kaller originally appeared in the first issue of the canon Star Wars: Kanan comic book series following Dume during Order 66 and going back to his first foray into the Cone Wars (Dume takes the name Kanan Jarrus some time after Order 66). This episode contradicts a decent amount of the comic, so it's unclear what exactly happened, but the rule of thumb for canon is usually that media like the movies and tv shows take priority over things like novels comics. When the Batch get back to Kamino, Palpatine's speech that is being shown over hologram is the same speech he gives to the Republic Senate in Revenge of the Sith after surviving the duel with Mace Windu and taking Anakin as his new apprentice. We don't know the identity of the Jedi whose body is being carried out by the Coruscant Guard in that same scene, but it isn't Shaak Ti, who we saw overseeing Clone training on Kamino in the Clone Wars series. She relocated to Coruscant shortly before Palpatine was kidnapped by Grievous and was canonically killed in the Jedi Temple by the newly anointed Darth Vader. We get several returning characters back on Kamino: Kaminoan Prime Minister Lama Su and his aide Taun We, both of whom first appeared in Attack of the Clones when Obi-Wan went to Kamino, and Nala Se, Kamino's Chief Medical Scientist first appearing in the Clone Wars season 1, episode 3 "Shadow of Malevolence" (though you might remember her more for her role in the death of Fives during the Inhibitor Chip arc in season 6). We also get a visit from a returning Admiral and future Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, looking much closer to his appearance in A New Hope, delivering the news that the production of new clone soldiers is to be halted. When Echo wakes up in a medical bay after the food fight, he is being treated by AZI-345211896246498721347 (AZI-3 for short), who we first met in the inhibitor chip arc in season 6 when he was working with Fives. The humanoid looking droids that the Bad Batch fight in the battle simulation are early versions of the DT-series sentry droid, a type of sentry droid made by Baktoid Combat Automata, the same company that made many of the droids in the Separatist military (including the B1-series battle droid, B2-series super battle droid, and BX-series commando droid). These droids were based on the Phase 3 version of the Dark Trooper, a type of battle droid developed for the Empire in the old Legends continuity (though they were brought back into canon by The Mandalorian, though they are a bit different from the Legends version). These droids first appeared in Star Wars Rebels, but since this show takes place in the beginnings of the Empire, this marks their first chronological appearance. The mission to Onderon gives us the return of Saw Gerrera and the fighters that Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and Rex trained in the Onderon arc of season 5 of The Clone Wars. At the end of the episode, the Batch mentions going to sector J-19, which is another name for the Suolriep sector of the galaxy. The Suolriep sector contains the Saleucami system and the planet of the same name that we first saw briefly in Revenge of the Sith. It was the planet where Clone Marshal Commander Neyo (CC-8826) and another trooper killed the Jedi Stass Allie in compliance with Order 66. But, we got a better look at it in the Clone Wars season 2 episode, "The Deserter." That might be a clue as to who they're going to see. Well, I think that's it for today's fun facts. Off to a great start so far! It's good to be posting these fun facts again, I missed it during the break. Can't wait to see how you guys like the series as we go on. I'll see you guys Thursday for the next episode!

So glad you've started this! What's the planned schedule, if any, for the video uploads? I don't wanna miss a single one!

Bethany: "They need to zap his chip" 29:42 yeah I don't think that's what you meant

Ironic how the most strict Jedi (mace windu) got the weirdest lineage of all the masters. Mace windu->depa billaba->caleb dume/kanan jarrus->ezra bridger The most flexible and best Jedi in terms of ideology

26:11 Fives' little droid friend AZ btw.

I love how the original designation for Boba Fett was Alpha (said in the Clone Wars) while her designation is Omega indicating them as the first and last pure clones of Jango Fett. My hope is that sometime in the future we get a chance for those two (if she survives the series) to meet each other. Also - LOVE seeing Saw Gerrera again after his spotlight in the Clone Wars, and I hope we get a chance to see him again in the future! On a much happier note - something tells me we will get to see Caleb Dume (the Jedi Padawan) again.

Ooooooh they’re finally doing it!!

FINALLY! Good Soldiers Follow Orders…

I am soooo glad you guys are finally getting into The Bad Batch! Y’all are gonna enjoy this. Can’t wait to experience this show with yall 😄

Stormtroopers aren't exactly bad at shooting. Actually they ARE quite good at their job. It's just that plot armor is real and people just use term of Stormtrooper Syndrome to describe plot armor. You can see it in the beginning of Episode IV when Stormtroopers defeated rebel soldiers on Tantive IV even before Vader had to step in. Or the fact that Empire defeated Rebels on Hoth quite soundly.

I just realized after watching the old tfs episodes you two switched sides on the couch 😹

Oh yeah, I was waiting for The Bad Batch!

34:37 I don't know if I can fully forgive Nala Se for what she did to Fives... but, her letting Omega escape with them... it makes it kind of better now.

I completely forgot you guys haven't seen Star Wars Rebels yet, so the Padawan is an unknown for you. Won't spoil, but after Bad Batch you should watch Rebels next!

I'm fine with you going chronological... and it will be interesting with people you'll encounter for the first time here.... I hope people shut their mouths about spoilers.

Remember that kid Caleb Dume

I’ve always wanted to see someone watch this show before watching Rebels it could provide a unique perspective

Omg yous are onto the bad batch now let’s go!!!

They all have chips but because of their defects they're obsolete or not as strong...except for cross hair

11:06 May I remind you she (Nala Se) is the same one who was involved in Fives death?

Definitely have to do rebels after this

"The day of revenge. The day of the Sith."

No views in 9 seconds? Definitely Not Definitive really fell off. Love you guys.

In case it wasn’t clear, caleb is kanan from rebels, honestly loved it so much

The Little Jedi Padawan is Kanin Jarus from Star Wars Rebels.

all I will say to this remember the kid Caleb Dume :D

The Bad Batch series is great. You guys should watch more episodes of it.

For the record, creating an opposite gender clone is much easier to do from male to female. You just have to take out the Y chromosome and copy the X chromosome. If you want to know why Omega is blonde native Kiwis have a chance to possess recessive genes for it. Temura Morrison's (Jango/Boba/Clones) family has those genes and his sister was blonde so it's just a fun bit of science to know.

biggest mistake of their lives was trading the clones for stormtroopers 💀

Ayeee!!! Time for The Bad Batch bay-beeeee! Lets go!

Finally bad batch

This will be a ride!

Good soldiers follow orders, but these ain’t good ones, they’re the baddest of the bunch😎😎😎

I love this show and I'm sure you guys will too

Awesome reaction of my favorite Star Wars The Bad Batch episode!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊

Good soldiers follow orders…

I didn't like Bad Batch at first as I was tired of the trope of having children being the catalyst that creates growth and development in our adult characters. I still am tired of the trope but for what Bad Batch aired, there were some good parts I did enjoy.

Let's go!

So excited for you two to continue this series but I was just wondering if you two could react to all dinos in Jurassic world evolution 2,would love it, awesome reaction❤

Omega is still cloned after Jango Fett. Apparently they just made a female version. For all intents and purposes, she's a female Boba fett. However, it is my head Cannon that Omega is actually trans. But I know I'm going to get some flack for that.

Could you guys react to The Entire Story of Armored Core 6 by VaatiVidya? It's a long video, but you could react to it in parts

Things are definitely not gonna hit the same but whatever, not like I’m watching anyway

🎉🎉🎉

I really hate this episode. And it’s not a bad one. I just wish that the two Jedi in this episode were literally anything else. Order 66 happens the master dies, Hunter, lets the Padawan live only for Crosshair to gun him down. Having these character involved in the events an Kaller just really diminishes another work. also, this is Tom Kane’s last performance as the narrator. Since he had throat cancer. Fortunately, though you still have his appearance in Rebels, reprising another character he played back in clone wars. Edit: Tom Kane suffered a stroke in 2020.

ANDOR THE BEST Star wars series