Gerrera later became one of the few Star Wars animated characters to make the jump to live-action, appearing as a supporting character in Rogue One, played by Forest Whitaker. Saw Gerreraįreedom fighter Saw Gerrera first appeared in The Clone Wars, as the leader of a resistance trying to push invading Separatists off of their lush jungle home world of Onderon. Things will only get more grim from here. The scene establishes exactly when the animated series takes place on the Star Wars timeline: it’s smack in the middle of the third act of Revenge of the Sith, and right at the beginning of the Empire. Only Hunter and his squad seem skeptical of this new Empire. The mind-controlled clones who have just wiped out their Jedi generals cheer alongside the Galactic Senate. On The Bad Batch, we watch this scene via a hologram being broadcast to the Clone Army on Kamino. Indeed, members of the Senate are elated to hear that the Clone Wars are finally over and that Palpatine’s new galactic government will usher in “a safe and secure society.” “So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause,” Padme says to Bail in the scene.
