Star Wars: The Bad Batch Disney + Animated Show

[Dave_W]

Maybe it's a good way to introduce a different dynamic for the main character so they're not just kick-ass guns blazing the bad guys all the time.

 

[JAWS]

I've never known a single kid who wanted an in-universe kid self-insert as POV. Back in the day we all wanted to be the grown-up MC, who was capable and badass and got all the girls. I don't know what this obsession is with sticking useless kids in all those Western shows. I seriously don't. What every kid wants is to grow up and do "cool grown up stuff". Kids like Batman, not Robin. Who the Hell would want to be lame Robin when you can self-insert as the Big Bad Bat? This trope still baffles, I'll be honest... I get the "teen MC goes through hormonal change and finds their purpose" trope, for both boys and girls. But what 7 YO sits down to watch a cartoon just so that they can self-insert as the kid instead of the capable adult MC? I've never understood it, and I never will.

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Maybe it's a good way to introduce a different dynamic for the main character so they're not just kick-ass guns blazing the bad guys all the time.

And well.... This

 

[Victοr]

Maybe it's a good way to introduce a different dynamic for the main character so they're not just kick-ass guns blazing the bad guys all the time.

It's a Star Wars cartoon. It's not exactly Hamlet. The audience for this isn't looking for much more past a bad-ass guy doing bad-ass things in a Star Wars setting. "Different Dynamic" can be literally anything. And that argument loses ground when the show is, once again, about "muh plucky ragtag team of wackos who abandon the ebil Empiah and go rogue" for the upteenth time. The simple fact of the matter is that the kid's there because out of touch executives think kids want to see the kid in there, and that'll lead to more toy sales.

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Seriously, have those people never met a kid their entire lives? When did any kid ever give a crap about Robin? Green Hornet & Kato, Lone Ranger & Tonto, those were both partners. I never got the kid sidekick, and I never will.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Can't wait for the 'annoying kid' comments. Doesn't look too bad. I've never been keen on the 'Rambo' look for Hunter though.

Oh wow, he does look like Rambo. He's even got a knife.

 

[Dave_W]

It's a Star Wars cartoon. It's not exactly Hamlet. The audience for this isn't looking for much more past a bad-ass guy doing bad-ass things in a Star Wars setting.

So it's either mindless action (a la Bayformers) or Shakespeare? No inbetween's aloud?

 

[Victοr]

So it's either mindless action (a la Bayformers) or Shakespeare? No inbetween's aloud?

You're missing the context. We're not talking about film or books, or any medium, in general. We're specifically talking about a Star Wars cartoon. A programme aimed at young kids and adults who cannot let go of their nostalgia, with a predictable plot, starring watered-down space soldiers shooting lasers. To defend the addition of a needless kid as "opening up new dynamics" is silly, since /anything/ can be a "new dynamic" and add an extra angle to the story. What should've been a kid's story about camaraderie, will now be turned into the "Escort Mission Show". It's a needless addition that has no positive impact. It's purely corporate.

 

[Dave_W]

So no kids kids aloud in a kids show. Got it. Thank God it isn't a trans POC Mary Sue kid as well. The horror!

 

[Victοr]

So no kids kids aloud in a kids show. Got it. Thank God it isn't a trans POC Mary Sue kid as well. The horror!

Yeah, good point. That would've been much worse! Look man, if you want to defend every single decision [Corporation] makes, go ahead. Nobody cares. My point is that it adds nothing to the simplistic story, and the actual kids don't care about some random kids being used as POVs; they want to watch the MCs do cool stuff. This is purely a marketing decision based on out of touch executives' delusions. I don't much care for Ahsoka, but her ininclusion in TCW made some sense. It would've been much better as a purely Anakin/Obi-Wan show, but her being a Padawan asigned to Anakin followed a certain logic. Ezra being the MC in Rebels was a way to touch on a Post-Order-66 world and deal with Kanan. They were both teens. They fall under the YA "hook". A literal kid is always an awful component of any mytharc focused show. Keep them to slapstic and shorts.

Funny, back then it was "the Prequels are bad because Anakin, the literal child slave raised by weirdo monks, is annoying and whiny!!11!!!!" and now we're at "what's your problem with a team of hardened badass rogue troopers having a random kid along for the ride?!". Funny indeed...

Anyway, I'm done. When it launches you're free to consume it all and form your opinions and whatnot.

 

[Spartan Rex]

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

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That is pretty funny

 

[TheDucky]

Anyone else excited for this? Finally drops tomorrow!!!

 

[matticus]

Lucasfilm: "We are going to skull**** every Star Wars fan with animated Clone Wars till they die."

 

[Wor-Gar]

In a single generation, the name Star Wars will come to mean 'cartoon' for the vast majority of kids.

The vintage films will be forgotten... or beloved but hardly watched like The Wizard of Oz. The potentially edgy live-action series will continue to become softer, dulled down for younger/family entertainment and a broader audience. Villains will be arrested (like Gideon)... monsters will end with a belch. And cute things will clap... both inside the show and outside the LCD screens.

The Bad Batch will not be so... bad.

 

[chrisstbh]

Lucasfilm: "We are going to skull**** every Star Wars fan with animated Clone Wars till they die."

And I'm fine with it.

Can't wait for 70 minutes of Clones ****ing **** up tomorrow.

 

[Wor-Gar]

cartoon explosions < live-action explosions

 

[chrisstbh]

New Star Wars = Good Star Wars (unless set in the Sequel era)

 

[TheDucky]

cartoon explosions < live-action explosions

Depends on the shows. TCW > ST. Bad Batch > ST. Invincible > New MCU.

Let’s be honest, if this was PT live action y’all would just ***** and whine anyways

 

[TheDucky]

And I'm fine with it.

Can't wait for 70 minutes of Clones ****ing **** up tomorrow.

Same. I am pumped for this! And Bad Batch Hot Toys too!

 

[jye4ever]

Enough with the animation just give me more live action.

 

[matticus]

At least we got something new in The Mandalorian. Something interesting and different. I know something different could be bad, aka ST, but another same look CW show... Guess KK thought she could pull plenty out her back side with how the ST would go. Maybe doing the characters/storylines from the EU might've been the smarter play instead of doing "all new", eh KK?