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I am your host, Taylor, and today I am here to dive
into the last three episodes, the finale of season three star Wars the Bat
Batch. What a journey that has been and now we're finally here at the
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the lights on. We love you all. So I'm gonna start off with
just non spoilers and then I'll get into the spoilers portion. So yeah,
let's do this. So with the show, I have absolutely loved the progression
and the development of these characters, and I probably have broken record at this
point if you've tuned into the other episode reviews that I've done. But I
feel like they've really hit home at touching upon different story arcs. And while
some of these things do, feel, of course like filler, I feel
like as the show has progressed, it's it's refined itself and become way better
at incorporating filler episodes, but allowing the filler episodes to serve as a progressive
narrative serving plot device. If that's the way to put it, I don't
know, but it allows the ability of these filler episodes to not feel like
they're necessarily filler episodes, but they contribute to the overarching narrative to the story,
and I like that. My cons with how this show concluded is maybe
I would was hoping that we would get more answers. I feel like they
set certain things up to explain and expand on where we got to in the
sequel trilogy when it comes to the Empire and the First Order and how things
are kind of set up, and they alluded to it, and I thought
that we were really going to expand and explore on it in this season.
And now the season is over, and while fifteen episodes is definitely a fair
few, I think it's just a missed opportunity that we didn't get more from
uh. I don't want to know. I don't want to say it because
I don't want to spoil it. There's just certain things that I feel like
we really needed to explore more and expand on, and we didn't. They
touched upon it very very lightly, and I was hoping just to see some
some more things, but they concluded it kind of it in its own way,
and yeah, it's just it's it's it'll be just need to kind of
see how this is going to be either looked upon in the future, if
it even is going to be looked upon again in Star Wars or whatnot.
I feel like the bad Batch was trying to set up certain things that we
see in the sequel trilogy, because you have this narrative in the sequel trilogy
that they concluded with the Rise of Skywalker, and I guess they kind of
established it and Rise of Skywalker and concluded with it in that same movie,
and all these other Star Wars medias have just been trying to expand and add
more to that storyline. And as convoluted as it can be, I do
appreciate that they're trying to I don't want to say fix it, but at
least makes sense of it and unwind it so that people that are enjoying the
Star Wars universe can actually understand like, Okay, well this is how this
all unfolded here, and so this is I guess, serving as another step
in that direction where we got in Rise of Skywalker. So that's fine.
I just wanted more our care. I think that at this point of the
game, like I said, their development has been fantastic. I'm really happy
that Wreckers really just turned around into this character that he is now, and
he's really from being just someone that I really was not engaged with in that
first season. He's really turned into probably top three for me, Like when
number one is is Tech. Obviously I love Tech, he was he was
my favorite, so it really was soul crushing when he died, and then
after Tech it would be cross Hair, really really like cross Hair, and
then after that it would probably be a RecA. Really I really really like
where he's come as a character and seeing where he's at now in lieu of
Tech's death, and I guess that would move cross Hair to first, and
then Record would be number two. I probably would have to decide between Echo
or Omega for for the next loot. Nothing against Hunt, I just he's
he's very much just reminds me of just your other clones, and I like
the very significance of the differences between the others, if that makes any sense,
just my favorites. So getting on from there and looking at how things
kind of picked up from the last episode twelve, things are really kind of
steering into unshredded waters and into the finale, you could feel like, Okay,
we're not getting any more filler episodes, and this definitely felt like just
a three episode slow burn towards just the ending at episode fifteen was a full
full hour long, so it had a lot of juice going on with it,
and so you get pretty much just under two yeah, under two hours
worth of Star Wars finale content here, and so there's a lot of stuff
that really had me excited, a lot of stuff that was really a good
callback to stuff in the Clone Wars, and some other really really fun things,
and so, yeah, lots of storylines were concluded. I still do
have questions, and I think that the way that they ended the show definitely
leaves me wanting more, and sure it absolutely has me questioning, Okay,
where are select characters now now that we are in this certain I don't want
to say it's a very interesting conclusion though, and I think most people are
going to be happy with it, and I think most people are gonna be
excited, Like I said, questioning, but excited to see the next step
here now obviously we're not getting a season four, and the animators are transitioning
to other shows like Tales of the Empire, which comes out in two days
this weekend, which we will be reviewing me and Kirkland. I don't know
about Travis. Me and Kirkland will be deep diving into that. Very excited.
So there's still some more animated content coming out, which is great.
I'm excited to see where they're going to go after this, though, I
mean, you can't really deep dive into the Clones again, I imagine then.
Well, many people have doubted a bad Batch being its own self sustaining
show. I think that it absolutely deserves merit and credit. A lot of
people are not going to find the storylines interesting, but I think that what
they were really trying to achieve really reflects a great degree of storytelling and as
I said, broken record development, the character development is wonderful. I think
there's lots of stories that they were able to tackle and tell, and it
serves as a really good spiritual successor to the Star Wars the Clone Wars,
and I really appreciate that. Well. Rebels definitely was a time jump ahead.
I think bad Batch does a great job at executing certain things and allowing
us to really see the empire more on that political side. One of the
reasons why I love and Or is seeing how the empire rose. And so
of course you're not getting a as politically invested show with the bad Batch because
it's Clone centric. You do get certain little insights into the Empire and that's
what I really I do appreciate. So I'm very happy with this whole.
Overall, this show, I think it was really really fantastic, and now
that we are here at the end, it is sad to see it come
to a conclusion, but it definitely has me asking more questions. But anyways,
I'm just babbling on. So let's take our first outbreak and then get
into some spoilers here, so we'll be right back. And we are back.
So episode thirteen into the Breach, we have Omega basically being she's captured
successfully and she's being introduced to her fellow Project Necromancer test subjects, so that's
the four other four sensitives, Eva, Jack, Sammy, and Barn.
Basically she's telling them that she's escaped from Tantis already and she's going to be
doing it again, and she just kind of inspects the zone a little bit
and figures it, Okay, there's there's areas behind the walls they can use
to make an escape. So the bad Batch and Rampart managed to rendezvous with
Echo and they managed to get a stolen Imperial shuttle and now this is basically
there. They're set up here to infiltrate in Imperial relaystation at Corossant. So
we get to see Corosont again here and I really love it. I think
it's just it's cool seeing the vendor cruisers in orbit at this docking station,
and we learn that in order to get to Tantis, the ship has to
dock at this specific orbiting docks and then as it's leaving, the coordinates to
Tentantis are uploaded into the ship, so when as it launches, it's good
to go. So it's really extensive on how to get out of here,
but that's the plan essentially. Rampart came up with this idea to a slight
degree, even though it was Crosshair that had you thought, Okay, let's
go get a Rampart. But Ramparts very much. He's imperially he's a coward,
but it was fun seeing him kind of like Cement back into the role
of just being a lieutenant and just calling the shots. He definitely did a
good job with that. Now they weren't able to extract the information, so
the situation changed, and this is in Bad Batch fashion where Echo sneaks aboard
the actual shuttle that's going to Tantus and manages just in the nick of time
to disable the proximity sensors on it, and it allows the other ship that
the Bad Batchron and the stolen vessel to just blast off and sneak in right
under the ship as the main science ship blasts into hyperspace and jumps towards Tantus.
It was really really a cool, high octane, intense scene. I
really liked it. But that's basically it then just sneaking about doing things and
stuff and things, so we didn't get to see much more on top of
their escape, but it was okay. And this is what I mean by
it feels like it is a little bit of a filler episode, but you're
progressing the main narrative and diving further into the plot. So when we move
on to episode fourteen, Flash Strike, now the Bad Batch while they were
stealthily to a slight degree getting into the proximity of the ship and going to
Tantas. They were notified in advanced the people on Tantas that clones had managed
to board the orbital station and cause a little bit of ruckus. So Hemlock
basically sends out the troops. Troops go and like disable the ship, and
so our three bad Batchians are basically wandering the jungle on Tantus. Now this
is where it gets really really cool, because you have Omega and okay,
she's getting everyone to the other kids to cause it distraction. She goes and
it starts crawling through the walls, and she manages to find a very familiar
character, the xilo Beast. And I thought that we were not gonna see
this same one. I mean, to me, I have not looked into
the lower googled anything like this. But to me, I know that they've
cloned the Xylobast, and so I am under the impression that the Xyleobast,
however, it's not a clone. This is the same one that we saw
from the Clone wars. So she basically formulates a plan and you when you
see the xyle Beast, you know what she's thinking. She's gonna let this
sucker loose, and that's exactly what she does in the next episode, and
it's great. It is great, But we basically have the bad Batch and
Rampart just trying trying to survive and everything is kind of going wrong and they're
just they're getting they get separated, and so that's basically again, this is
a seriously slow burning episode leading into that finale because things are getting set up,
the cogs are in motion, and we're just getting ready to see how
things are gonna go down. But Echo was on that science ship and he
manages to get into the base. They don't know he's in there. He's
disguised as a stormtrooper and he's just sneaking around doing things and trying to find
Omega while most of the forces are trying to find Rampart and the Bad Batch
out in the forest. So Echo eventually bumps into Emery, and this is
cool because Embry was definitely showing signs of sympathy towards these children that she was
handling with now that she was the new Science head officer after NASA, So
in this position now it's nice just to see her immediately call out Echo and
I just agrees to help. And I really like that. I think this
is a turning point for this character, and I think it's a good redemption
arc that she's going up now and taking upon herself. So the episode ends
with her basically allowing Echo to know there's other children here and this is what
they're doing. So we get into episode fifteen, the finale, the cavalry
has arrived, Omega and the other children. They managed to get out.
They follow through with their plan. The doctor who was there on the call
basically while Emery was out, she was terrible and she got drugged. And
then that sounds like when the kids escaped there the Empire is gonna kill her.
It didn't sound like it was. It wasn't good for her, so
Hemlock was pissed. The kids get out and they managed to get to the
Xylo beast and let him loose, and this was so cool. So well,
Hunter record and Cross here they're still trying to infiltrate the bass. They're
still out there. They encounter one of these beasts such to Mension the previous
episode, and the Rampart's freaking out. The beast severely injures Hunt RecA really
tears him up, and so Record's really not doing good. He's kind of
injured a little bit, but they press on. They're trying to get into
the base on Tantis. The xylo Beast is just ripping through this bass,
destroying everything and killing everyone. It was it was great just to see this
chaos. It had like Godzilla vibes again to it, which was always great.
I was just driving with it. It was such a good time.
So as the Xylobeast breaks out and runs free on the planet, they do
set up contingencies to go and retrieve the xylo Beast. I'm not sure how
far this is going to go and if the Empire will successfully get the Xylobist
back. And I say that because you have Tarkan calling up Hemlock, basically
calling him out, like, oh the Xylobasts escape, bad Batch is there,
Like you, buddy, you're terrible. What are you doing. Hemlock's
like, I got under control, and Tarkan's like no, no, no,
no, no, I'm on my way. So they did express interest.
I'm sure of reclaiming the Xylobeast because it's a military asset. But now
in retrospect, I'm thinking when Tarkan does arrive, he basically gives the order
Okay, all remaining assets are going to be diverted to Project Stardust, which
makes sense. He's definitely sympathetic towards that project, even though he has a
beef out with director Krenik. So it's interesting to see how that'll play out.
It's just fun to hear all the project names and how Thron would be
with this situation, although I don't even think Thron is a a factor at
this point. Of course, he did see anagain and the Clone Wars,
but at this point I think it's still too early for him to have been
recruited into the Empire with Vanto. I'd have to recheck my dates on that,
but anyways, I digress. This isn't the Throng show. This is
the Bad Batch show. So as our characters are basically trying to get into
the base, the xylobeast breaks out, and so with bad Batches like,
okay, that's our entry point, they sneak in. Rampart is still with
them. Well, sorry, no, Rampart is not with them. Actually,
of course he got captured and he was inside. He was actually across
the cell from Na La s A. So when the bad Batch breaks him,
they eventually get caught, unfortunately, because they have to deal with Hemlock's
new testing testing Clone Trooper squad. And this is like an anti bad Batch.
I guess you could say this special elite tactics unit that he's got,
of these special clone troopers that he studies on very interesting. And I think,
just to put it in the ground now, everyone was speculating that this
one Clone was probably tech or there's something going on here, and I will
say they were definitely alluding to something suspicious by keeping his helmet on and always
not showing what his face looked like. But at the end of all things,
it was just a nobody and that's exactly how I would like to keep
it. It did not need to be tech. I did not need to
have that. That's a whole nother dynamic. We need a whole other season
to deal with that. Then it would be too much along the lines of
a repettitedness of dealing with cross Hair and cross Hairs kind of sticking it out
with the Empire while all the other bad Batch members moved away and went on
their own. So I'm glad that They didn't touch upon that at all.
We did not need that storyline. Tech is gone, it hurts, and
these were just other clones that were just trying to assassinate our boys, the
bad Badge. So that's what happened. They managed to detain the Bad Badge,
lock up the remaining guys and hemlocks observatory area, and so Omega rendezvous
with Echo. Emory manages to get the other remaining kids on a shuttle,
get them out of there and to save harbor, and so Echo and Omega
go back. They free Now let's say they free Rampart, they free a
whole platoon of clones, and then they're just they're going to fight, and
it was great. They're going to rescue the bad Batch. Now, let's
say it gets her own mission, and I just it's sad how the Comuno
Wins were just shafted like this. They were just done dirty, like the
Geenosians, you could say. And so she made the honorable and right call
here, Like it was really good to see her character come come down this
path where she managed to get a thermal detonator. She goes to the research
area and she knows everything Project Necromance are related all of her research. It
needs to be destroyed, and Rampart is intrigued with this. He follows her,
and he's obviously looking for a good position back in the Empire, so
he's thinking, Okay, I will take this information, I'll get it out
of here, and I'll have leverage with the Empire and the Emperor to be
reinstated. But now, let's say detonates her thermal detonator when he didn't pay
attention and destroyed them and the evidence. The downside, of course, he
shoots her before u before he tries to leave and whatnot. But there's some
exposition here that they skipped over where he asks her what Project Necromancer is and
they skip over it, and I wish they didn't. I would have loved
to have that scene in Nala, say, just telling him like, oh,
the Emperor is cloning himself so that he can live forever. Oh,
just say it, just say it. I would have loved that. That
would have been great, but we did not get it. Sadly, it
really really sucks. So all we have to base it on is the fact
that Project Necromancer has continued on into the Mandalorian, where maf Gideon is doing
his stuff, but he's trying to create a clone that's forth sensitive of himself
basically and make his own force sensitive soldiers. So the reason why that wasn't
perfected was obviously because this research was destroyed. But then you also have years
later, what the final Order on Exagal Palpatine doing more of this this clone
stuff, this necromancer cloning stuff. So I appreciate that it's kind of this
reoccurring thing in Star Wars. I do enjoy the necromancer plotline, but I
think it fits where they were running into so many errors with Snoke, for
example, because the original baseline research was destroyed and Omega was the key.
But Omega's I mean, she makes it out obviously, she gets out safely,
a couple clones as well, and the bad Batch manages to take down
this anti bad Batch squad. Record just gets the shit kicked out of them.
But man, I thought he was gonna die, but he pulled through.
So after all that, they Omega's she's been kidnapped now, Hemlock's trying
to flee, and oh Crosshair has lost a hand now too. It's just
absolutely brutal, and so Crosshair and Hunter they get up to this top tier
area of the facility of Tantis and they gun Hemlock down. They save Omega,
and so then they get out of there and it seems like okay,
things are things are picking up. They managed to get out. The research
is destroyed, but they as soon as they're flying out in the shuttle and
they jump to hyperspace. Later, our first Imperial Star Destroyer appears, and
it was so cool. The Imperial Star Destroyer was being escorted by two Venitor
cruisers and I was like, oh, this is this is like a mint
screen saver somewhere. This is beautiful. I love this. It's just the
clash of a clash of the eras in the Ages. It was cool.
So I can't remember if we've seen a star Destroyer before, but I've just
my memory has not been what it used to be, so to me,
just seeing this and this two scaled side by side was just like the bees
knees. But that's when we see Tarkan arriving and basically saying, Okay,
we're gonna divert all of our funds and resources now to projects start us.
This has been a failed endeavor. We're not wasting any more time with this,
and we're going to destroy the facility. So that's what happens there,
and they leave it at that, And that's why I would have liked to
have expanded upon a little bit more imperial stuff, a little bit more Necromancer
stuff, and just really get more into the political side of what Tarkan is
dealing with here and the Emperor too. Bring McDermott back. He's always fantastic
as Palpatine. I'll always watch him as the jolly old sith Lord. So
we basically see our characters back at their home base. Things are kind of
feeling like normal again ish and things kind of wind down, things feel positive
and happy, when all of a sudden, we get a little bit of
a time jump. And I wasn't expecting this. It looks like it's probably
about Rumors are saying that this is probably about two years before a New Hope
when it takes this time jump, so it would have jumped to around the
time of Star Wars Rebels. I want to say, probably like fifteen fifteen
years around that. So Omega has grown up and she's basically Hunter bumps into
her and she tells him like I gotta go. You know you you've done
a good job protecting me, but I gotta go protect others. The rebellion
needs pilots, and so I'm gonna go. And she's ready to fly away,
and so you get a really good emotional moment between Hunter and Omega and
Hunter just saying, if you ever need us, just call us and we'll
be there. So that's what the first clue is that they're going to return.
But basically she flies off and heads off to join the rebellion. So
I think it's fantastic because now we get a story of little Mega that is
a pilot in the rebellion. I'm really excited to kind of see where that
goes and how that unfolds. Like that's really really exciting. So that's basically
how it concludes. Again, this was an hour, but I feel like
it was a little fast paced and things were a little lucy on the conclusions
side of things. But it is what it is, and I'm happy that
we got this concluded in a semi relatively okay way. It could have been
a lot worse, could be a lot more messy, but I think that
they've left the door open for continuing this storyline in another light with different characters
and bringing these characters back like they did with Rebels. You could say where
at some point they brought Rex and they brought Gregor and Wolf back. So
I think there's room to bring these these characters back at some point in another
dark Times centric centric show. You know, Travis loves the Dark Times.
But yeah, that's it. It's all my thoughts. That is it for
The Bad Batch Season three. That's a wrap. I don't know what I
would rate this show in general as a whole. I mean, season three,
I probably would rate it like nine point five out of ten. I
think it was damn near pretty perfect. I loved it the whole series,
all three seasons together, I'd probably go like a probably like a eight out
of ten, just because I feel like the first season definitely had a lot
of filler, a lot of slow stuff that was hard to kind of like
trudge through. But season two was absolutely wonderful. Love season two, and
then this season again was just it. It jumped up even more so.
It's been three years a Bad Batch, and I'm sad to see it go,
but I'm happy to see what's coming next. So that is it.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of Keeper's podcast, We'll see you
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