Star Wars: The Bad Batch Final Season Clip Previews Crosshair’s Incarceration
The Bad Batch clones Omega and Crosshair reach an impasse over whether they should escape in a sneak preview of the Star Wars spinoff’s third season.
The clip, released by Lucasfilm, follows Omega as she locates the rogue Clone Force 99 member in his prison cell, only for Crosshair to rebuff her plans of escaping. When Omega reaches out to Imperial scientist Emerie Karr — who reveals herself as a female Jango Fett clone like Omega in season 2’s finale — for help, Crosshair lambasts her for being too trustful. In turn, Omega calls out how he doesn’t “trust enough,” a remark that leaves Crosshair deeply hurt.
The Bad Batch season 3 will premiere later this month, marking the first of many Star Wars shows coming out in 2024. An official trailer for the series dropped in January, previewing fellow Bad Batch members Hunter, Wrecker, and Echo potentially plotting to rescue Omega as they perform anti-Imperial odd jobs across the galaxy. More surprisingly, however, was the trailer’s Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman) revealed, as the character canonically met her end in the book Star Wars: Dark Disciple, a loose adaptation of multiple unfinished Star Wars: The Clone Wars episodes. This detail was acknowledged by supervising director Brad Rau, who, following the Ventress reveal, assured fans that “any new storytelling with Ventress will align with the events of Star Wars: Dark Disciple.”
Plot-wise, The Bad Batch continues the storylines of multiple prequel-era characters who either got their start on, or were further developed in, cartoons like Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. This coincides with the upcoming 25th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which kicked off the prequel timeline and will briefly return to theaters over the May 4 weekend. Although widely disliked by critics and fans at the time, the prequel trilogy has since been embraced by younger Star Wars fans thanks to shows like The Clone Wars, which retroactively fixed issues people had with the movies’ characters and worldbuilding. In a recent interview, Anakin Skywalker actor Hayden Christensen described this newfound appreciation as “vindication for the work that we did. Everyone that worked on those movies thought that we were part of something special. We all wanted to do our very best work, and we care a lot about it. And so to see the response from the fans now, it’s very cool.”
Another Star Wars cartoon returning this month is Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, the first Star Wars program set entirely in the High Republic era. This timeline will make its live-action debut in Disney+’s The Acolyte, which recently confirmed a summer 2024 release window.
