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After a six-year gap, it’s like The Clone Wars never left.
The first episode of the seventh and final season is streaming on Disney+ now. And, assuming you were a fan of the show the last time around, “The Bad Batch” delivers.
How can you watch The Clone Wars?
In order to watch "The Clone Wars," you need to subscribe to Disney+, the streaming service that serves as the online home for all things Star Wars. All 12 episodes of the new season will stream on the service. You can also watch the previous six seasons of The Clone Wars on Disney+.
You can watch Disney+ using streaming devices, desktop browsers, “a wide range” of mobile devices, smart TVs, and video-game consoles. You can sign up for a free week-long subscription to Disney+ to test it out—just make sure you cancel before that week is out. A subscription to Disney+ costs $6.99 per month or $69.99 for the full year, though you can save 25% if you sign up for the Disney+ bundle with ESPN+ and Hulu, which gives you access to all three streaming services for just $12.99 per month.
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What happens in the season premiere of The Clone Wars season 7?
“Embrace others for their differences,” the opening epigraph reads, “for that makes you whole.” In the first of these new episodes, we’re told that Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker are leading a fight to take back a Republic shipyard on the planet Anaxes; it’s under attack by Admiral Trench, an anthropomorphic, cybernetically enhanced tarantula. (Star Wars can be pretty rad.)
The good guys’ losses continue to mount because Captain Rex, one of the clone army’s best, is becoming predictable to Separatist tactical droids. The Republic is having to change up its strategy at every turn. There’s a communications center relaying intel to the enemy command ship from the ground on Anaxes, and Captain Rex and Commander Cody want to investigate.
“So many troopers, gone,” Rex laments. He has a theory—that one of his fallen brothers, Echo, is in fact still alive. Echo’s strategic mind is evident in the Separatists’ counterassaults, despite having been thought dead since an explosion in the season-three episode “Counterattack,” which aired in 2011.
Rex and Cody enlist the help of an oddball clone squad who call themselves “the Bad Batch”—Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Crosshair. These four mutant troopers call the others “regs”; there’s some tension there, and naturally it bubbles over later on in the episode when the stakes are high.
Around the episode’s midpoint, the troops’ gunship gets shot down, and we get to see the Bad Batch take on a small army of Separatist B1s and spider droids. This is classic Clone Wars through and through; the action is beautifully composed and well rendered throughout. Eventually, the clones capture an outpost along their way to infiltrating the all-important relay station. “They must know about the algorithm,” says Admiral Trench.
Turns out, the algorithm originates from a “live signal” coming from another planet. After he and his brothers in arms analyze the transmission, Captain Rex discovers an operating number. “That was Echo’s number,” he confirms. “He’s alive.”
The next shot irises out into a starfield, accompanied by a familiar credit: “Created by George Lucas.”
Directed by Kyle Dunlevy and written by Matt Michnovetz and Brent Friedman, this season premiere features the voice talents of series regulars Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Matthew Wood, TC Carson, and Tom Kane—along with a score by longtime composer Kevin Kiner. It’s great fun. The animation is crisp and vibrant, but then it always was.
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