The Bad Batch is back. This season will wrap up the Star Wars show, and, from the four episodes released so far, it's clear that this is a crucial installme🌳nt in the galaxy far, far away. 

We catch up with Omega in Imperial captivity in the opening episodes, and in episode 3 we get a truly chilling hint at her importance to the Empire. It turns out Nala Se has been protecting Omega all along, sabotaging the testing of the𓃲 young clone's blood samples to ensure that the truth – that Omega is a perfect candidate for Project Necromancer – cannot be discovered by Dr. Hemlock. 

But what is Project Necromancer, exactly? Well, it was first mentioned in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Mandalorian season 3, and all signs point to it being the Emperor's resurrection plan: AKA, how Palpatine could survive his 'death' in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Return of the Jedi and show up again in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Rise of Skywalker. It's also what the Empire seems to want with baby Grogu, too.

The return of Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker was absolutely seismic – and it was a plot twist that was never fully explained in the movies themselves. While 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Mandalorian has begun to slowly but surely shade in those blanks, it looks lik𒆙e T💫he Bad Batch is going to give us the most important pieces of the puzzle yet. 

In doing so, The Bad Batch is also proving that animate𓂃d Star Wars is essential to the saga – something that has been becoming clearer and clearer in the last few years. 

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The boundary between animated and live-action Star Wars has been steadily blurring since The Mandalorian began introducing the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ahsoka Tano, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bo-Katan Kryze, and Cad Bane to live-action. It wasn't until the Ahsoka show, though, that knowing your Clone Wars and Rebels became truly invaluable. Of course, the series provided enough context for everyone to be able to enjoy watching, regardless of how many hours they'd spent binge-watching the animated shows. But it's undeniable that, if you were already familiar with the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ezra Bridger and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sabine Wren, you'd get more out of Ahsoka. Plus, with Ahsoka season 2 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:already confirmed and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dave Filoni's movie in the pipeline, it's obvious that these charac🥂♒ters are here to stay. 

Fascinating concepts like Loth-wolves (which have a special connection with the Force), the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:World Between Worlds, and the mysterious Mortis, a mystical realm inhabited by Force gods, all have their origins in animation too – and they're also beginning to creep into the live-action sphere of Star Wars, with the World Between Worlds a hefty focus of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ahsoka episode 5, and the Mortis gods teased in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ahsoka finale. 

Then there's the fact that, if you skip the animated shows, you're missing out on some of Star Wars's best stories. Darth Maul's return from apparent-death, feud with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Obi-Wan Kenobi, and tragic end on Tatooine is something you'll only get to experience in animated form – and the same goes for the life of fallen Jedi Kanan Jarrus, or even what happened to Yaddle, a background character in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Phantom Menace given a heartbreaking episode of Tales of the Jedi (and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard). 

Of course, The Clone Wars is a whopping seven seasons long, and Star Wars also exists in the form of comics, video games, and books. Trying to watch, read, or play every item in the galaxy fꩵar, far away is near-impossible. 

But, as The Bad Batch's exploration of Project Necromancer shows, the animated side of Star Wars is increasingly being given as much weight as the live-action movies and series🅺. That's for the best, too – there's no reason animation as an art form should be relegat𝕴ed to 'second tier' storytelling, or be the preserve of die hard fans only. Giving the animations their time in the spotlight can only lead to a richer, fuller galaxy. 

So, while we'll probably eventually be given an abridged version of the Proj♎ect Necromancer tale in a future, live-action project, the full story is likely to be found only in The Bad Batch season 3 – which makes it♌ essential Star Wars viewing. 

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