So, not long ago, Lucasfilm and Disney accidently revealed the titles, lengths and descriptions
for the first 2 episodes of the Star Wars: The Bad Batch series, including the massive
75 minute season premiere, which is airing may the fourth.
It also includes a connection to someone literally all of us have been waiting to revisit since
the Clone Wars ended and a brand new shot of the same icy world where Clone Force 99
fight B-1 battle droids…
So, before we break down these massive reveals, make sure you’re subscribed for a whole
lot more Bad Batch content, all the way up to the release and throughout the series.
Now the first thing to determine is if these two episode boxes are actually real, or if
someone has decided to use an inspect element.
I looked through both the size reel and the trailer, and it does seem that the first image
appears in the material already put out by Lucasfilm.
I went through each of the trailers and released content over 10 times and I couldn’t find
the second image anywhere in those, so I think we’re pretty safe to say that this is an
original image, meaning it’s probably a real leak.
But it’s pretty easy to miss these things, so make sure you go and watch the trailers
again after this video to be sure.
Either way, let's break down the leaks.
To begin we got the lengths of the first two episodes.
The first episode will be airing on May the fourth as a full 75 minute season opener,
to kick off the series, and throw us right into the action.
As is usual with Disney+, this also includes the credits, so you can assume that the actual
run time of the episode will be about 70 minutes, which is the time that Lucasfilm announced
a few weeks ago.
And I’ll explain just why the first episode is going to be so long in a few moments, when
we break down the title and description.
Following that, the next episode has a run time of 31 minutes.
If you assume about 5 minutes of credits at the end of the episode, this puts us squarely
at a 26 minute run time which is still longer than the average Clone Wars episode, which
came in about about 22-24 minutes.
Very exciting stuff.
So lets move on to the big stuff, the titles and descriptions.
Episode 1 has the title Aftermath, which immediately tells us that this will be the episode where
we see Order 66 declared and how the Bad Batch react to it.
That will probably be the first 20 half of the episode.
The second half of the episode will be the immediate aftermath of Order 66, and will
probably begin around the time of the Kamino scene for the trailer, where Palpatine declares
the creation of the Empire and gives his speech to the Galaxy.
The title “Aftermath” probably also refers to the aftermath of the bad batch leaving
the Empire and turning their backs on Tarkin and Palpatine, so this means the defection
probably happens sometime late in the first episode.
We’ve certainly got enough time to cover all of that with the extended length.
Following that we have the thumbnail which shows wrecker and the other boys still on
Kamino at the mess hall, suspiciously without Crosshair.
Crosshair probably is there just out of the frame, but it could point to the boys of Clone
Force 99 planning to defect the Empire without him, because Crosshair's loyalty to the Republic
and his hatred of war has recently been confirmed in a new encyclopedia.
Then again, we can’t really tell since Hunter is out of the frame here too.
The description also gives us a very basic synopsis of the episode, and is “the clone
of the Bad Batch find themselves in a changing galaxy after the Clone Wars”.
Not much new information there unfortunately, but it’s going to be awesome to see how
each of the different Clone groups react the end of the war.
We obviously know that the Coruscant guard stays very loyal, from Revenge of the Sith
and the trailers, we all know what the 501st did and Rex obviously went down a different
path thanks to Ahsoka.
Very quickly before we move onto the next episode, I want to show you guys this brand
new shot from which just got released by Disney, which appears to show Clone Force 99 fighting
alongside some clone troopers on a snowy planet.
This is probably the same planet that the Bad Batch fight the B-1 battle droids on,
and could very well be somewhere like Ilum, since we know that the imperial destruction
of the Jedi’s sacred world begins almost immediately after the empire is formed.
Let me know down below what you think this ice planet might be.
With Krennic probably appearing on the show, and Tarkin there as his competition, this
could very well be the start of the Kyber crystal death star story arc, which went through
the rogue one novels, Star WArs rebels and rogue one itself.
It even featured in an unfinished episode of the Clone wars.
Now the details from the next episode are very, very interesting.
They tell us that a major character from the Clone Wars series will likely be making a
return…
ONe that many of us have been dying to know “what happened next”.
So the episode title is Cut and Run…
If you’re not following along yet, you’ll very soon realize what this title means.
After that, the description tells us that the “Bad Batch visit an old contact”.
You might not think much of that, but that pretty much confirms that the Bad Batch have
previously had contact with Cut Lawquane or it could be referring to rex, and will be
revisiting him after the Clone Wars comes to an end.
The name CUT and run, as well as the “old contact part”, on top of Hunter literally
wearing Cut Lawquane’s outfit… there’s almost no mistaking this.
Cut lawquane will be making a big on screen return.
We already do pretty much know what happened to him after the Clone Wars from the Aftermath
books, but for those of you who haven’t read them, I’ll leave that detail out for
now incase we get some cliffhangers in the show.
Now the other thing this episode title tells is that Old Contact could be Captain Rex.
We already know that the Bad Batch have used Captain Rex as a contact in the Clone wars
season 7, and worked very closely alongside him.
Touchingly, Cut lawquane’s last words to captain Rex during the war was “you’re
welcome to stay, Rex”, which is a perfect bridge for them to meet back up, but this
time in the very hostile environment of a post-order 66 galaxy.
I think Captain Rex likely went straight to Cut Lawquane after surviving the crash at
the end of the Clone wars season 7.
Now if you’ve been watching my other theory videos, you’ll know that it’s almost a
certainty that we will be revisiting Saleucami.
In one of the shots from the trailer, wrecker is wearing a very interesting outfit, which
has some very close aesthetics to Saleucami and Cut lawquane.
The more important part and the part which points strongly to them being on saleucami
are the bulbous plants that are growing in the back of the shot.
These plants look very similar to the ones that can be seen growing on Saleucami in the
Clone Wars, just behind Obi-Wan Kenobi, which you can see on the screen now
Not only this, but these same plants can be seen in the background of a shot where Hunter
is literally wearing the same clothes as Cut Lawquane, who obviously still lives on Saleucami.
For all we know, this could point to Rex sticking around with Clone Force 99 for much longer
than we all believed, considering
Either way, I can see Commander Neyo being directly involved in the hunt for Cut Lawquane
on Saleucami, being stationed on the same planet as him after Order 66.
We know from REvenge of the Sith that he was here on Saleucami and he obviously still has
his chip since he executed Order 66 on Stasse Allie.
Palpatine most likely orders a full sweep of the planet in the weeks following the Order,
probably revealing that the deserter has been living on the farm world for the entire war.
Obviously, the clones aren’t going to take to a deserter too kindly, just like Rex initially
didn’t when he met cut, and Palpatine won’t tolerate it all, unfortunately, probably meaning
he orders Cut Lawquane to be executed.
The title of the Episode “Cut and RUN” could also be referring to the fact that the
Cut is the one running, and not Clone Force 99.
It could honestly be both, but it would be fitting for Neyo to lead the charge against
Cut Lawquane, and potentially even try to kill him.
Now the final part of this leak is the thumbnail image for the episode.
This could either be before they leave kamino, which would tie this episode right to the
end of the episode 1, where Omega just freshly joins the Bad Batch, or it could be near the
end of the Episode, since Hunter is wearing Cut Lawquane’s clothing.
If it’s after the episode, he’s probably explaining to Omega, the female clone, just
what Order 66 truly means and how the aftermath of the Clone Wars is going to be very dangerous
for them since they defected from the Empire and refused to take orders from Palpatine.
And to make one final point, the episodes look to have a 6+ age rating, meaning we probably
won’t see many heads coming off or lightsabers going through hearts.
Hopefully they don’t tone it down as far as rebels, but we’ll have to wait and see.
On the American version of Disney+ it says PG, which is the same as clone wars, so maybe
it’s just a differe rating for a different country, which means we’re fully open to
some great lightsaber combat.
So those are the brand new reveals for the first 2 episodes of Star Wars: The Bad batch,
as well as a brand new shot from a ice planet.
Make sure you’re subscribed for a whole lot more bad batch content, as the series
airs.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!