. . . and then he started talking and she instantly lost interest.Wanda Sykes' character seemed to have a crush on Tech. He was the only one she thought didn't look too weird.
Spoilers Bad Batch Season 2 - This Fall
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Now that be a trick...
I think the general idea is that they do their best to minimise casualties and don't' kill anyone they don't have to, but they're not stupid and aren't about to seriously risk getting killed over it.
Plus it's still a kids show, and having the heroes commit wholesale murder would be a bit much. It's a lot easier to gloss over a ship blowing up than a trooper taking a shot to the chest.
Plus it's still a kids show, and having the heroes commit wholesale murder would be a bit much. It's a lot easier to gloss over a ship blowing up than a trooper taking a shot to the chest.
Also, I think Omega‘s bow doesn’t have a stun setting either?
Clone Wars and Rebels did it all the time.
Yeah, they did a part 2 as well but I know there are a lot more and my wife and I on a recent rewatch, last year or so, were surprised by the deaths sometimes. You know, for kids!
Some scenes were censored on Cartoon Network, but are included fully on home release and Disney+. Ventress kissing the Clone was one of those, Pre Vizsla's decapitated body laying on the floor wasn't shown.
https://censorship.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars
https://censorship.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars
It was interesting to see a sci-fi version of cargo containers and container ships. Weird that there seemed to be corridors between them, though, given that from the outside, it looked as if there was nothing but containers lashed together except in the front portion of the ship.
Also, it was surprising that they were willing to settle for swiping a few small crates of gold and jewels out of all these hundreds of huge containers of loot. I figured they'd try to hijack one of the container ships, or at least an entire container. But I guess the idea was to take an amount that wouldn't be noticed right away but would still be enough to suit their more modest needs.
They prefer nonlethal methods where possible (at least against other clones), but will use lethal force if required to. It's not contradictory, just situational.
Plus, of course, it's mainly about whether the deaths would be seen on camera.
Also, it was surprising that they were willing to settle for swiping a few small crates of gold and jewels out of all these hundreds of huge containers of loot. I figured they'd try to hijack one of the container ships, or at least an entire container. But I guess the idea was to take an amount that wouldn't be noticed right away but would still be enough to suit their more modest needs.
They prefer nonlethal methods where possible (at least against other clones), but will use lethal force if required to. It's not contradictory, just situational.
Plus, of course, it's mainly about whether the deaths would be seen on camera.
This ship design was first created for Star Wars Rebels, they appeared in 3 episodes.
Wookieepedia says it also appeared in episode 6 of Bad Batch Season 1, but I don't recall that.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Class_four_container_transport
Not all the time. Leaving aside that most of the things being shot and dismembered were droids, there was only a handful of instances where things got a little more explicit with actual people.
Don't get me wrong, they really pushed the limits of what CN was willing to broadcast (a few things even got cut) but wholesale murder still the exception and wasn't par for the course. With a handful of exceptions, most of it was implied violence. They got very clever with the camera work to make you think you saw something you actually didn't. Tricks like cutting away to a close-up of another character facial reaction coupled with a dramatic music cue. Hiding the point of contact; either by having it happen slighting out of frame, or obscured by the blocking. (Satine's, Pre Vizla's and Savage's deaths used all of the above.)
In a weird way, if done skilfully this approach can be even more effective than an explicit display of violence, because it depends to a certain degree on the audience using their imaginations.
It mainly comes down to a question of volume; one or two moments of lethal violence you can get away with for dramatic emphasis (within reason.) Having the heroes (which includes a ten year old!) routinely gun people down in cold blood . . . yeah not so much. Aside from being inappropriate for a kid's show, it makes it hard to justify the relatively light adventurous tone.
This all applies to the movies too, not just the animated shows. They all had killings and dismemberment . . . but you rarely actually saw anything truly grisly.
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If this was done back in the 80s/90s, they'd blow up a star destroyer and you'd see thousands of escape pods immediately shoot out, ala GI Joe cartoons, when a plane would be shot down.
If this was done back in the 80s/90s, they'd blow up a star destroyer and you'd see thousands of escape pods immediately shoot out, ala GI Joe cartoons, when a plane would be shot down.
And the giant space station the Empire's building would have to be called the Destruction Star, because you couldn't say "Death."
And if it was airing in the 80s-90s on a Canadian Kids TV Channel they wouldn't be allowed to have 'War' in the title.
So it would probably just be called "The Bad Batch" not "Star Wars: The Bad Batch"
"Transformers: Beast Wars" in Canada was renamed to 'Transformers: Beasties', they even changed the dialogue in the opening theme. It was just the title and theme though, they didn't change any dialogue in the episodes that said "beast wars"
Not sure when they changed that rule, but it wasn't in effect when Clone Wars was on TV.
So it would probably just be called "The Bad Batch" not "Star Wars: The Bad Batch"
"Transformers: Beast Wars" in Canada was renamed to 'Transformers: Beasties', they even changed the dialogue in the opening theme. It was just the title and theme though, they didn't change any dialogue in the episodes that said "beast wars"
Not sure when they changed that rule, but it wasn't in effect when Clone Wars was on TV.
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^^Likewise, the show War Planets was called Shadow Raiders in Canada. Though, curiously, in that case Shadow Raiders became the more commonly known title for that show, and I think it was used on the DVD releases in the US as well.
