Commander Cody's new story arc in TheBadBatch takes away from some of Star Wars' central tragedy.
In Season 2, Episode 3, The Bad Batch stepped away from the rest of Clone Force 99 to check in on estranged member Crosshair , who is still working for the Empire. Crosshair’s latest mission teamed him with Commander Cody , a fan-favorite clone who has appeared in Star Wars films and the Clone Wars series The Bad Batch spun off from. But while seeing Cody again was a treat for fans, his new storyline undermines one of the Star Wars franchise’s most important plot points.
In “The Solitary Clone,” Vice Admiral Rampart sends Crosshair to join Cody and his team on a mission to Desix, a planet that was part of the Separatist alliance during the Clone Wars. Remaining Separatist forces led by Tawni Ames have captured the local Imperial governor, Grotton , and are demanding the Empire recognize Desix’s independence in exchange for his life. The clones are charged with rescuing Grotton.
Diluting Order 66 While Cody making the moral choice to abandon the Empire is a nice note of optimism to end a rather bleak episode on, it is a bad storytelling decision in the long run. Just as more and more Jedi are being revealed to have survived the devastating betrayal of Order 66 across Star Wars media, the animated series is revealing more and more clones rejected the Empire, either during its rise or shortly after.
The tragedy of the clones was that, despite their individual personalities and the bonds they developed with their Jedi leaders, they were still unable to resist the command to turn on them during Order 66 because of the inhibitor chips inside their bodies. Effectively, they served the same role as the battle droids they spent their whole lives fighting against. Both groups were really just tools Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious used to engineer the war and take power.
In the old canon of pre-Disney Star Wars Expanded Universe stories now dubbed Legends, Cody remained a faithful servant of the Empire and The Bad Batch would have been better off keeping this future intact for him. He could have still played an important role in Crosshair’s story; the details would simply need to be adjusted. Perhaps if Cody had killed Ames this could have frightened Crosshair into reconsidering his convictions, given how much he obviously respects the commander.
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