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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
back to ano episode of geek Ers Podcast.

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I am your host, Taylor,
and today I am here to dive

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into the last three episodes, the
finale of season three star Wars the Bat

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Batch. What a journey that has
been and now we're finally here at the

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end of all things. Before I
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You guys are fantastic. Thank you
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the lights on. We love you
all. So I'm gonna start off with

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just non spoilers and then I'll get
into the spoilers portion. So yeah,

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let's do this. So with the
show, I have absolutely loved the progression

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and the development of these characters,
and I probably have broken record at this

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point if you've tuned into the other
episode reviews that I've done. But I

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feel like they've really hit home at
touching upon different story arcs. And while

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some of these things do, feel, of course like filler, I feel

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like as the show has progressed,
it's it's refined itself and become way better

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at incorporating filler episodes, but allowing
the filler episodes to serve as a progressive

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narrative serving plot device. If that's
the way to put it, I don't

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know, but it allows the ability
of these filler episodes to not feel like

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they're necessarily filler episodes, but they
contribute to the overarching narrative to the story,

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and I like that. My cons
with how this show concluded is maybe

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I would was hoping that we would
get more answers. I feel like they

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set certain things up to explain and
expand on where we got to in the

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sequel trilogy when it comes to the
Empire and the First Order and how things

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are kind of set up, and
they alluded to it, and I thought

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that we were really going to expand
and explore on it in this season.

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And now the season is over,
and while fifteen episodes is definitely a fair

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few, I think it's just a
missed opportunity that we didn't get more from

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uh. I don't want to know. I don't want to say it because

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I don't want to spoil it.
There's just certain things that I feel like

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we really needed to explore more and
expand on, and we didn't. They

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touched upon it very very lightly,
and I was hoping just to see some

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some more things, but they concluded
it kind of it in its own way,

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and yeah, it's just it's it's
it'll be just need to kind of

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see how this is going to be
either looked upon in the future, if

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it even is going to be looked
upon again in Star Wars or whatnot.

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I feel like the bad Batch was
trying to set up certain things that we

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see in the sequel trilogy, because
you have this narrative in the sequel trilogy

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that they concluded with the Rise of
Skywalker, and I guess they kind of

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established it and Rise of Skywalker and
concluded with it in that same movie,

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and all these other Star Wars medias
have just been trying to expand and add

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more to that storyline. And as
convoluted as it can be, I do

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appreciate that they're trying to I don't
want to say fix it, but at

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least makes sense of it and unwind
it so that people that are enjoying the

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Star Wars universe can actually understand like, Okay, well this is how this

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all unfolded here, and so this
is I guess, serving as another step

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in that direction where we got in
Rise of Skywalker. So that's fine.

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I just wanted more our care.
I think that at this point of the

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game, like I said, their
development has been fantastic. I'm really happy

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that Wreckers really just turned around into
this character that he is now, and

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he's really from being just someone that
I really was not engaged with in that

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first season. He's really turned into
probably top three for me, Like when

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number one is is Tech. Obviously
I love Tech, he was he was

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my favorite, so it really was
soul crushing when he died, and then

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after Tech it would be cross Hair, really really like cross Hair, and

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then after that it would probably be
a RecA. Really I really really like

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where he's come as a character and
seeing where he's at now in lieu of

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Tech's death, and I guess that
would move cross Hair to first, and

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then Record would be number two.
I probably would have to decide between Echo

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or Omega for for the next loot. Nothing against Hunt, I just he's

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he's very much just reminds me of
just your other clones, and I like

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the very significance of the differences between
the others, if that makes any sense,

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just my favorites. So getting on
from there and looking at how things

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kind of picked up from the last
episode twelve, things are really kind of

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steering into unshredded waters and into the
finale, you could feel like, Okay,

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we're not getting any more filler episodes, and this definitely felt like just

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a three episode slow burn towards just
the ending at episode fifteen was a full

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full hour long, so it had
a lot of juice going on with it,

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and so you get pretty much just
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worth of Star Wars finale content here, and so there's a lot of stuff

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that really had me excited, a
lot of stuff that was really a good

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callback to stuff in the Clone Wars, and some other really really fun things,

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and so, yeah, lots of
storylines were concluded. I still do

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have questions, and I think that
the way that they ended the show definitely

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leaves me wanting more, and sure
it absolutely has me questioning, Okay,

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where are select characters now now that
we are in this certain I don't want

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to say it's a very interesting conclusion
though, and I think most people are

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going to be happy with it,
and I think most people are gonna be

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excited, Like I said, questioning, but excited to see the next step

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here now obviously we're not getting a
season four, and the animators are transitioning

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to other shows like Tales of the
Empire, which comes out in two days

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this weekend, which we will be
reviewing me and Kirkland. I don't know

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about Travis. Me and Kirkland will
be deep diving into that. Very excited.

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So there's still some more animated content
coming out, which is great.

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I'm excited to see where they're going
to go after this, though, I

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mean, you can't really deep dive
into the Clones again, I imagine then.

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Well, many people have doubted a
bad Batch being its own self sustaining

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show. I think that it absolutely
deserves merit and credit. A lot of

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people are not going to find the
storylines interesting, but I think that what

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they were really trying to achieve really
reflects a great degree of storytelling and as

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I said, broken record development,
the character development is wonderful. I think

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there's lots of stories that they were
able to tackle and tell, and it

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serves as a really good spiritual successor
to the Star Wars the Clone Wars,

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and I really appreciate that. Well. Rebels definitely was a time jump ahead.

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I think bad Batch does a great
job at executing certain things and allowing

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us to really see the empire more
on that political side. One of the

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reasons why I love and Or is
seeing how the empire rose. And so

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of course you're not getting a as
politically invested show with the bad Batch because

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it's Clone centric. You do get
certain little insights into the Empire and that's

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what I really I do appreciate.
So I'm very happy with this whole.

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Overall, this show, I think
it was really really fantastic, and now

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that we are here at the end, it is sad to see it come

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to a conclusion, but it definitely
has me asking more questions. But anyways,

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I'm just babbling on. So let's
take our first outbreak and then get

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into some spoilers here, so we'll
be right back. And we are back.

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So episode thirteen into the Breach,
we have Omega basically being she's captured

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successfully and she's being introduced to her
fellow Project Necromancer test subjects, so that's

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the four other four sensitives, Eva, Jack, Sammy, and Barn.

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Basically she's telling them that she's escaped
from Tantis already and she's going to be

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doing it again, and she just
kind of inspects the zone a little bit

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and figures it, Okay, there's
there's areas behind the walls they can use

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to make an escape. So the
bad Batch and Rampart managed to rendezvous with

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Echo and they managed to get a
stolen Imperial shuttle and now this is basically

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there. They're set up here to
infiltrate in Imperial relaystation at Corossant. So

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we get to see Corosont again here
and I really love it. I think

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it's just it's cool seeing the vendor
cruisers in orbit at this docking station,

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and we learn that in order to
get to Tantis, the ship has to

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dock at this specific orbiting docks and
then as it's leaving, the coordinates to

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Tentantis are uploaded into the ship,
so when as it launches, it's good

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to go. So it's really extensive
on how to get out of here,

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but that's the plan essentially. Rampart
came up with this idea to a slight

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degree, even though it was Crosshair
that had you thought, Okay, let's

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go get a Rampart. But Ramparts
very much. He's imperially he's a coward,

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but it was fun seeing him kind
of like Cement back into the role

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of just being a lieutenant and just
calling the shots. He definitely did a

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good job with that. Now they
weren't able to extract the information, so

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the situation changed, and this is
in Bad Batch fashion where Echo sneaks aboard

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the actual shuttle that's going to Tantus
and manages just in the nick of time

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to disable the proximity sensors on it, and it allows the other ship that

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the Bad Batchron and the stolen vessel
to just blast off and sneak in right

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under the ship as the main science
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It was really really a cool,
high octane, intense scene. I

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really liked it. But that's basically
it then just sneaking about doing things and

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stuff and things, so we didn't
get to see much more on top of

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their escape, but it was okay. And this is what I mean by

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it feels like it is a little
bit of a filler episode, but you're

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progressing the main narrative and diving further
into the plot. So when we move

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on to episode fourteen, Flash Strike, now the Bad Batch while they were

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stealthily to a slight degree getting into
the proximity of the ship and going to

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Tantas. They were notified in advanced
the people on Tantas that clones had managed

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to board the orbital station and cause
a little bit of ruckus. So Hemlock

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basically sends out the troops. Troops
go and like disable the ship, and

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so our three bad Batchians are basically
wandering the jungle on Tantus. Now this

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is where it gets really really cool, because you have Omega and okay,

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she's getting everyone to the other kids
to cause it distraction. She goes and

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it starts crawling through the walls,
and she manages to find a very familiar

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character, the xilo Beast. And
I thought that we were not gonna see

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this same one. I mean,
to me, I have not looked into

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the lower googled anything like this.
But to me, I know that they've

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cloned the Xylobast, and so I
am under the impression that the Xyleobast,

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however, it's not a clone.
This is the same one that we saw

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from the Clone wars. So she
basically formulates a plan and you when you

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see the xyle Beast, you know
what she's thinking. She's gonna let this

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sucker loose, and that's exactly what
she does in the next episode, and

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it's great. It is great,
But we basically have the bad Batch and

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Rampart just trying trying to survive and
everything is kind of going wrong and they're

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just they're getting they get separated,
and so that's basically again, this is

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a seriously slow burning episode leading into
that finale because things are getting set up,

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the cogs are in motion, and
we're just getting ready to see how

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things are gonna go down. But
Echo was on that science ship and he

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manages to get into the base.
They don't know he's in there. He's

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disguised as a stormtrooper and he's just
sneaking around doing things and trying to find

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Omega while most of the forces are
trying to find Rampart and the Bad Batch

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out in the forest. So Echo
eventually bumps into Emery, and this is

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cool because Embry was definitely showing signs
of sympathy towards these children that she was

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handling with now that she was the
new Science head officer after NASA, So

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in this position now it's nice just
to see her immediately call out Echo and

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I just agrees to help. And
I really like that. I think this

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is a turning point for this character, and I think it's a good redemption

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arc that she's going up now and
taking upon herself. So the episode ends

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with her basically allowing Echo to know
there's other children here and this is what

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they're doing. So we get into
episode fifteen, the finale, the cavalry

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has arrived, Omega and the other
children. They managed to get out.

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They follow through with their plan.
The doctor who was there on the call

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basically while Emery was out, she
was terrible and she got drugged. And

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then that sounds like when the kids
escaped there the Empire is gonna kill her.

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It didn't sound like it was.
It wasn't good for her, so

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Hemlock was pissed. The kids get
out and they managed to get to the

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Xylo beast and let him loose,
and this was so cool. So well,

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Hunter record and Cross here they're still
trying to infiltrate the bass. They're

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still out there. They encounter one
of these beasts such to Mension the previous

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episode, and the Rampart's freaking out. The beast severely injures Hunt RecA really

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tears him up, and so Record's
really not doing good. He's kind of

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injured a little bit, but they
press on. They're trying to get into

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the base on Tantis. The xylo
Beast is just ripping through this bass,

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destroying everything and killing everyone. It
was it was great just to see this

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chaos. It had like Godzilla vibes
again to it, which was always great.

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I was just driving with it.
It was such a good time.

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So as the Xylobeast breaks out and
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set up contingencies to go and retrieve
the xylo Beast. I'm not sure how

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far this is going to go and
if the Empire will successfully get the Xylobist

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back. And I say that because
you have Tarkan calling up Hemlock, basically

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calling him out, like, oh
the Xylobasts escape, bad Batch is there,

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Like you, buddy, you're terrible. What are you doing. Hemlock's

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like, I got under control,
and Tarkan's like no, no, no,

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no, no, I'm on my
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I'm sure of reclaiming the Xylobeast because
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in retrospect, I'm thinking when Tarkan
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Okay, all remaining assets are going
to be diverted to Project Stardust, which

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makes sense. He's definitely sympathetic towards
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beef out with director Krenik. So
it's interesting to see how that'll play out.

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It's just fun to hear all the
project names and how Thron would be

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with this situation, although I don't
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this point. Of course, he
did see anagain and the Clone Wars,

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but at this point I think it's
still too early for him to have been

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recruited into the Empire with Vanto.
I'd have to recheck my dates on that,

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but anyways, I digress. This
isn't the Throng show. This is

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the Bad Batch show. So as
our characters are basically trying to get into

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the base, the xylobeast breaks out, and so with bad Batches like,

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okay, that's our entry point,
they sneak in. Rampart is still with

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them. Well, sorry, no, Rampart is not with them. Actually,

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of course he got captured and he
was inside. He was actually across

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the cell from Na La s A. So when the bad Batch breaks him,

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they eventually get caught, unfortunately,
because they have to deal with Hemlock's

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new testing testing Clone Trooper squad.
And this is like an anti bad Batch.

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I guess you could say this special
elite tactics unit that he's got,

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of these special clone troopers that he
studies on very interesting. And I think,

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just to put it in the ground
now, everyone was speculating that this

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one Clone was probably tech or there's
something going on here, and I will

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say they were definitely alluding to something
suspicious by keeping his helmet on and always

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not showing what his face looked like. But at the end of all things,

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it was just a nobody and that's
exactly how I would like to keep

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it. It did not need to
be tech. I did not need to

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have that. That's a whole nother
dynamic. We need a whole other season

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to deal with that. Then it
would be too much along the lines of

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a repettitedness of dealing with cross Hair
and cross Hairs kind of sticking it out

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with the Empire while all the other
bad Batch members moved away and went on

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their own. So I'm glad that
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We did not need that storyline.
Tech is gone, it hurts, and

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these were just other clones that were
just trying to assassinate our boys, the

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bad Badge. So that's what happened. They managed to detain the Bad Badge,

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lock up the remaining guys and hemlocks
observatory area, and so Omega rendezvous

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with Echo. Emory manages to get
the other remaining kids on a shuttle,

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get them out of there and to
save harbor, and so Echo and Omega

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go back. They free Now let's
say they free Rampart, they free a

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whole platoon of clones, and then
they're just they're going to fight, and

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it was great. They're going to
rescue the bad Batch. Now, let's

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say it gets her own mission,
and I just it's sad how the Comuno

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Wins were just shafted like this.
They were just done dirty, like the

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Geenosians, you could say. And
so she made the honorable and right call

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here, Like it was really good
to see her character come come down this

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path where she managed to get a
thermal detonator. She goes to the research

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area and she knows everything Project Necromance
are related all of her research. It

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needs to be destroyed, and Rampart
is intrigued with this. He follows her,

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and he's obviously looking for a good
position back in the Empire, so

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he's thinking, Okay, I will
take this information, I'll get it out

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of here, and I'll have leverage
with the Empire and the Emperor to be

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reinstated. But now, let's say
detonates her thermal detonator when he didn't pay

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attention and destroyed them and the evidence. The downside, of course, he

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shoots her before u before he tries
to leave and whatnot. But there's some

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exposition here that they skipped over where
he asks her what Project Necromancer is and

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they skip over it, and I
wish they didn't. I would have loved

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to have that scene in Nala,
say, just telling him like, oh,

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the Emperor is cloning himself so that
he can live forever. Oh,

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just say it, just say it. I would have loved that. That

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would have been great, but we
did not get it. Sadly, it

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really really sucks. So all we
have to base it on is the fact

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that Project Necromancer has continued on into
the Mandalorian, where maf Gideon is doing

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his stuff, but he's trying to
create a clone that's forth sensitive of himself

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basically and make his own force sensitive
soldiers. So the reason why that wasn't

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perfected was obviously because this research was
destroyed. But then you also have years

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later, what the final Order on
Exagal Palpatine doing more of this this clone

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stuff, this necromancer cloning stuff.
So I appreciate that it's kind of this

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reoccurring thing in Star Wars. I
do enjoy the necromancer plotline, but I

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think it fits where they were running
into so many errors with Snoke, for

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example, because the original baseline research
was destroyed and Omega was the key.

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But Omega's I mean, she makes
it out obviously, she gets out safely,

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a couple clones as well, and
the bad Batch manages to take down

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this anti bad Batch squad. Record
just gets the shit kicked out of them.

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But man, I thought he was
gonna die, but he pulled through.

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So after all that, they Omega's
she's been kidnapped now, Hemlock's trying

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to flee, and oh Crosshair has
lost a hand now too. It's just

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absolutely brutal, and so Crosshair and
Hunter they get up to this top tier

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area of the facility of Tantis and
they gun Hemlock down. They save Omega,

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and so then they get out of
there and it seems like okay,

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things are things are picking up.
They managed to get out. The research

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is destroyed, but they as soon
as they're flying out in the shuttle and

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they jump to hyperspace. Later,
our first Imperial Star Destroyer appears, and

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it was so cool. The Imperial
Star Destroyer was being escorted by two Venitor

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cruisers and I was like, oh, this is this is like a mint

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screen saver somewhere. This is beautiful. I love this. It's just the

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clash of a clash of the eras
in the Ages. It was cool.

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So I can't remember if we've seen
a star Destroyer before, but I've just

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my memory has not been what it
used to be, so to me,

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just seeing this and this two scaled
side by side was just like the bees

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knees. But that's when we see
Tarkan arriving and basically saying, Okay,

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we're gonna divert all of our funds
and resources now to projects start us.

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This has been a failed endeavor.
We're not wasting any more time with this,

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and we're going to destroy the facility. So that's what happens there,

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and they leave it at that,
And that's why I would have liked to

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have expanded upon a little bit more
imperial stuff, a little bit more Necromancer

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stuff, and just really get more
into the political side of what Tarkan is

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dealing with here and the Emperor too. Bring McDermott back. He's always fantastic

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as Palpatine. I'll always watch him
as the jolly old sith Lord. So

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we basically see our characters back at
their home base. Things are kind of

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feeling like normal again ish and things
kind of wind down, things feel positive

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and happy, when all of a
sudden, we get a little bit of

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a time jump. And I wasn't
expecting this. It looks like it's probably

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about Rumors are saying that this is
probably about two years before a New Hope

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when it takes this time jump,
so it would have jumped to around the

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time of Star Wars Rebels. I
want to say, probably like fifteen fifteen

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years around that. So Omega has
grown up and she's basically Hunter bumps into

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her and she tells him like I
gotta go. You know you you've done

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a good job protecting me, but
I gotta go protect others. The rebellion

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needs pilots, and so I'm gonna
go. And she's ready to fly away,

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and so you get a really good
emotional moment between Hunter and Omega and

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Hunter just saying, if you ever
need us, just call us and we'll

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be there. So that's what the
first clue is that they're going to return.

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But basically she flies off and heads
off to join the rebellion. So

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I think it's fantastic because now we
get a story of little Mega that is

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a pilot in the rebellion. I'm
really excited to kind of see where that

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goes and how that unfolds. Like
that's really really exciting. So that's basically

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how it concludes. Again, this
was an hour, but I feel like

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it was a little fast paced and
things were a little lucy on the conclusions

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side of things. But it is
what it is, and I'm happy that

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we got this concluded in a semi
relatively okay way. It could have been

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a lot worse, could be a
lot more messy, but I think that

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they've left the door open for continuing
this storyline in another light with different characters

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and bringing these characters back like they
did with Rebels. You could say where

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at some point they brought Rex and
they brought Gregor and Wolf back. So

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I think there's room to bring these
these characters back at some point in another

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dark Times centric centric show. You
know, Travis loves the Dark Times.

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But yeah, that's it. It's
all my thoughts. That is it for

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The Bad Batch Season three. That's
a wrap. I don't know what I

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would rate this show in general as
a whole. I mean, season three,

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I probably would rate it like nine
point five out of ten. I

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think it was damn near pretty perfect. I loved it the whole series,

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all three seasons together, I'd probably
go like a probably like a eight out

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of ten, just because I feel
like the first season definitely had a lot

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of filler, a lot of slow
stuff that was hard to kind of like

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trudge through. But season two was
absolutely wonderful. Love season two, and

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then this season again was just it. It jumped up even more so.

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It's been three years a Bad Batch, and I'm sad to see it go,

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but I'm happy to see what's coming
next. So that is it.

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Thank you for tuning in to this
episode of Keeper's podcast, We'll see you

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guys next time. May the Force
be with you. Happy made the fourth

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take Care, See you in the
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