Star Wars Clones Still Don’t Get Any Respect In Bad Batch Season 2 – Looper

“The Bad Batch” continues to explore the Empire’s transition from clones to stormtroopers, showing the beginnings of the stormtrooper program on Daro. The Empire’s treatment of the clones is at the forefront of the series, showing there’s room to tell a mature story within the animated boundaries of “Star Wars.”

During an interview with IGN, “The Bad Batch” star Dee Bradley Baker reflected on how Season 2 continues to explore the lives of clone troopers in the aftermath of Order 66. “The clones that are still around, that are still of some use, they’re being used for what they are, but they are ultimately expendable,” the actor said. “They are disposed of, as we saw very clearly at the end of Season 1. So it’s interesting to see how these poor clone soldiers slowly wake up to how this is playing out for everybody, as well as for themselves.”  

While the clones are inherently copies of Jango Fett — giving them each that iconic Temuera Morrison look — many of them have developed into their own personalities, and “The Bad Batch” showcases the uniqueness found within them. “It just so interesting,” producer Brad Rau told Agents of Fandom, “you have these characters that were created in this very insidious way in the prequels. How Dave [Filoni] and team in ‘The Clone Wars’ digs into each one of them, and you get to learn that Rex, he’s not just a copy of a copy of a copy, but he’s Rex. He’s his own self.” “The Bad Batch” continues what Filoni started, bringing Baker back as a new group of clones but still diving into the personalities that set them apart from the masses.