"All Of Our Emotions Were Running High": The Bad Batch Stars Go Behind-The-Scenes On The Star Wars Series Finale

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, episode 15.

Summary The emotional roller coaster of The Bad Batch season 3 finale left even the creators in tears.

Dee Bradley Baker and Michelle Ang were clearly deeply moved when recording their final lines together.

The passion and love its creators had for the series made saying goodbye to The Bad Batch emotionally difficult for the cast and creators.

The series finale of Star Wars: The Bad Batch was an emotional roller coaster, and a new video shows that even the creators and stars of the show were deeply impacted by it. For a long time, it seemed that Clone Force 99's story would end in tragedy, but The Bad Batch season 3 finale's ending subverted those expectations in the best way possible. It was such a powerful ending that even the cast of The Bad Batch experienced some strong emotions just in creating it.

In an interview posted by Star Wars, Dee Bradley Baker, who voices all the clone troopers and male members of Clone Force 99, and Michelle Ang, who voices Omega, spoke about the emotions they experienced while recording the final episode together.

As Baker and Ang explained, the end of The Bad Batch also marked the end of their professional collaboration, so recording the final episode brought on all the emotions associated with farewells. Baker poetically summed the entire experience up by saying, "there may be tears, and there may be a sense of loss or sadness, but it's part of the beauty of it, because it was bounded in time for just this beautiful moment, and then, it's suddenly gone. That's what life is." It's also notable that Baker and Ang were able to record their final lines together in-person, which surely added to the emotional power of the moment.

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The Bad Batch Finale Is Emotional For Everyone Involved

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The dramatic feelings of the final recording session didn't just apply to Baker and Ang, though. As seen in the video, the directors of The Bad Batch, Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett, also became emotional, with Corbett being moved to tears. The entire creative team behind The Bad Batch seems to have been moved by its finale, and they have more than enough reason to be. The Bad Batch was a years-long project that was clearly a labor of love, and having to say goodbye to something so special is not an easy task.

There was also the added emotions of the episode itself. The series finale of The Bad Batch was extremely intense and suspenseful, and its ending was a deeply moving way to bid the series farewell. Seeing all the members of Clone Force 99 survive their mission to Tantiss, especially considering how much worse it could have gone, was a huge relief. Additionally, watching an adult version of Omega go off on her own and say goodbye to her father figure in Hunter was extremely bittersweet. Anyone would be forgiven for crying because of watching such a finale, let alone making it.

The emotions the cast and creators of The Bad Batch showed behind the scenes also speaks to how much passion was involved in making the show. This was clearly more than just a job or a paycheck for everyone involved, as they had such a strong response to recording the final episode. The passion they had for the story of Clone Force 99 bled into every aspect of the show, and its finale wouldn't have been nearly as emotional without it. Viewers and creators alike had to say goodbye to The Bad Batch, and both groups were deeply moved by the farewell.

Source: Star Wars