Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 delivers high stakes, intense action, stunning visuals, and fan favorite character returns for what is sure to be an epic final season. It should be noted this review is based solely off the first eight episodes of The Bad Batch Season 3, which will consist of fifteen episodes total.
Heading into the final season of a series is always daunting. Will it be done justice? Will everything be wrapped up as it should be? Will it feel rushed?
After having seen the first eight (of fifteen) episodes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, which has been confirmed as the final season, we can confidently say that it is heading in the right direction. There is even potential for this to be the best season yet.
As fans saw in the season two finale, Omega has been separated from the group. The Bad Batch has already lost a member as Tech died, and of course we all know they are on the outs with Crosshair as well.
Even though we have seen him start to do his part to protect Omega, Hunter, Echo, and Wrecker, we don’t exactly know where he stands with them.
The Bad Batch season 3 kicks off with Omega in the Imperial facility, struggling to hatch a plan to get back to the guys, but also to take Crosshair with her. At the same time, everyone’s favorite defective (and effective) clones are doing everything in their power to reunite with her as well. It is clear from the start that this is going to be a very high stakes season, as it prepares to tie everything together in the Star Wars universe that it can.
Throughout this season, or at least the first eight episodes, fan favorite characters make appearances, and yes, Emperor Palpatine is one of them. The plot does its best to try to make sense of what happens with him in later films – to say that is exciting and intriguing is an understatement.
While we certainly do not have the whole picture yet, what we have seen is an intense and compelling start to the season. Things are not easy, and they aren’t going to be easy, which is exactly what this group of clones would and should be dealing with. There is backstabbing, treachery, and deceit, which always adds a touch of suspense, but there is a lot more to this season as well.
It is very clear that Dave Filoni and his team are holding nothing back in Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, and are willing to put viewers through an emotional roller coaster. Just in the first eight episodes there have been heart pounding and intense moments that are going to have fans on the edge of their seats, wondering what is to come next.
The animation style is, once again, top notch, and the action sequences have some how gotten even better. There is a lot riding on this final season and Filoni proves just how much he cares about these characters, and the larger Star Wars lore by making the decision to keep things exciting, as well as connected to the bigger picture.
If Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 continues along the path that it has started on, it could not only be the best season, but also a perfect one.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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About Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3
In the epic final season of “Star Wars: The Bad Batch,” the Batch will have their limits tested in the fight to reunite with Omega as she faces challenges of her own inside a remote Imperial science lab.
With the group fractured and facing threats from all directions, they will have to seek out unexpected allies, embark on dangerous missions, and muster everything they have learned to free themselves from the Empire.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 first three episodes are streaming now, exclusively on Disney+.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 Episode Schedule:
- 2/21: Episode 301 “Confined,” Episode 302 “Paths Unknown,” Episode 303 “Shadows of Tantiss”
- 2/28: Episode 304 “A Different Approach”
- 3/6: Episode 305 “The Return”
- 3/13: Episode 306 “Infiltration” & Episode 307 “Extraction”
- 3/20: Episode 308 “Bad Territory”
- 3/27: Episode 309 “The Harbinger”
- 4/3: Episode 310 “Identity Crisis” & Episode 311 “Point of No Return”
- 4/10: Episode 312 “Juggernaut”
- 4/17: Episode 313 “Into the Breach”
- 4/24: Episode 314 “Flash Strike”
- 5/1: Episode 315 “The Cavalry Has Arrived” (finale)
Tessa Smith is a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved Film and TV Critic. She is also a Freelance Writer. Tessa has been in the Entertainment writing business for ten years and is a member of several Critics Associations including the Critics Choice Association and the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association.