Star Wars: The Bad Batch has returned for its second season premier, packed full of gorgeous animation, callbacks to Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Dee Bradley Baker.
And it’s…fine.
It knows how to tell a story and shape a character arc, it has exciting action and visually memorable characters, but like the first season it still lacks depth.
The story of Season 1 was slow and meandering, and despite spending 16 episodes with Clone Force 99 the characters still feel flat.
The most interesting parts of the season weren’t focused on the show’s main characters, but on the rapidly changing world around them.
So maybe the show should’ve been about that world instead, told through the lens of a sprawling anthology series like The Clone Wars rather than the narrow focus that it ended up with.
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