Well, that's it for Clone Force 99, the Bad Batch. In the end I felt that it ended more with a whimper then a bang, It felt like Filoni pulled back from what could be a intriguing, heart breaking ending which would be in line with the rise of the Empire, and gave us a bit too much of a happy ending.
Don't get me wrong, the execution was awesome. The battle scenes, the animation, the use of sound track and the writing in this episode was top notch and even awesome.
But
Spoiler!
There was no general clone rebellion, there was a jail break, and a lot of clones died. But they were pretty much anonymous deaths. And all of the members of Clone 99 survived. However I kept waiting for Cody and Rex to show up and save the Batch, and they hinted at it when Emerie fled with the Kids.
I guess they, the show runners pulled the ultimate swerve on us, Tech is dead, the CX Clone that was built up as a massive threat, with hints dropped that it was Tech, was a bit of a lark.
I did laugh hard at Rampart's death, but we saw the end of Necromancer as Hemlock and Nala Se's death and the destruction of the databanks, the Empire loses the knowledge that Omega was the key and the Empire would have to start open after the death of the Empire.
It was nice to see closure for the Zilo beast, and there was something thrilling to see it stomp through Tantiss like Godzilla.
In the end despite the loss of his hand, Crosshair does one final excellent shot shooting the cuffs attaching Omega and Hemlock. But we didn't get the really big noble moment that Crosshair deserved and was working to. We had Wrecker badly injured but in the end we didn't get a scene of Wrecker fighting off Troopers til the end, instead he gets a behind the scene rescue.
Sadly Scorch was a casualty of the Batch, I still remember his snark as he was blowing up stuff in the Clone Commander video game (one of the best Star Wars games of its era. )
After a season where they were building towards tragedy and heartbreak the ending felt safe which goes against everthing Bad Batch.
We did get a nice epilogue of a grown Omega running off to join the Rebellion as a pilot and talking to a aging Hunter, it was a nice emotional wrap up. But Bad Batch is like that 5 course dinner, that's excellent through the 4 courses but then they give you lime jello with cool whip as desert.