Star wars: The Bad Batch animated series set for Disney+ in 2021 - My Thoughts

So big news for fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars today as a spinoff series was announced today surrounding the group of clones introduced in Season 7 - The Bad Batch. With this exciting news here are my thoughts on what they could do on the show. 

The Bad Batch did not commit Order 66

The biggest news to come from the press release from Star Wars & Disney is that it confirmed that The Bad Batch did not commit Order 66 and will start off the show as mercenaries trying to avoid The Empire. It has been theorised that due to there abnormalities they would not have the inhibitor chips like other clones and this news seems to coincide with that theory.

Needs to finish Commander Cody's story

It is funny, pretty much every important Clone trooper has had a conclusion to their story apart from The Bad Batch and Commander Cody. The last time we see Cody is when he turns on Obi-Wan Kenobi on Utapau, I think due to his history with The Bad Batch, he would be the perfect candidate to be sent by The Empire after them and thus this could give us a fitting ending to his story. 

Be careful what Clone Wars cameos to include

This is an important one for me, there is no doubt at certain points in its story Star Wars Rebels relied heavily on cameos from the films and Clone Wars in order to get eyes on it. I hope this show takes a bit of a reserved approach, I think there are some opportunities for cameos, such as Cody and maybe we could even see Assajj Ventress & Boba Fett due to the group of Clones being Mercenaries. 

Could the group end up as Darth Vader's Jedi hunting stormtroopers

This is just a theory of mine, but we know that Anakin Skywalker knows of The Bad Batch and even worked with them so is it out of the realm of possibility for him to forcibly recruit them at the end of the season. A second season seeing The Bad Batch hunting Jedi could be epic in nature. 

Overall

Overall, I am so excited about this news. The 7th season of Clone Wars was fantastic and this show could be a great opportunity to show us more stories with the entertaining Bad Batch.