This burgeoning autocracy is using cloned humans to eliminate the pesky Jedi and their annoying moral code, branding them traitors who must be executed under a diktat called Order 66. The basics: the conflict depicted in The Clone Wars has come to an end, and the Galactic Empire that Luke Skywalker and friends will one day fight against is taking ominous shape. Getting used to the pretensions and dramatic stiffness of these animations, which never seem quite sure how old the ideal viewer is, might be more of a barrier.
Not knowing who, say, Saw Gerrera or Caleb Dume are, and thus not yelping with recognition when they appear, is not a problem. For members of the general public considering whether to watch a sequel to a cartoon spin-off from a movie franchise, the questions are: can I watch it without being fully across all the relevant galactic folklore, and is it worth it anyway? Yes, you can, and yes, it is – barely. Star Wars: the Bad Batch (Disney+) follows on from the long-running animated adventure Star Wars: The Clone Wars, giving a group of characters who were prominent in the final season their own show, and is set in the period between the films Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
With no new Star Wars movie on the horizon – a root and branch inquiry into what went wrong with 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker is hopefully ongoing – Disney+ instead marks Star Wars Day 2021 with the fanboy substitute that is a new cartoon series. H appy Star Wars Day! What started out as a throwaway joke several decades ago – of saying “May the fourth be with you” on 4 May – has snowballed in the past few years and is now a fixture on the calendar, in the Disney marketing department at least.
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