Bam. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of geek Verse
podcast. I am your host, Taylor, and today very special, very
very special episode. You know what, just because of the fact it's one
of those rare Taylor solo reviews that doesn't happen that much anymore, but it's
maybe it'll be a thing in the future. Maybe I'll try and get back
into the game here and dish out some more tailor perspectives. But we're here
to talk about the Bad Batch. Season three has premiered first three episodes,
so we're gonna be talking about all three of those tonight's spoilers review. If
you haven't seen the show yet, go check it out. If you haven't
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So when dealing with the bad Batch, that second season ended on such a
oh my goodness, it just it had me head over heels for just what
was going on. And I'd say it in a good way, but an
emotionally compromise good way, because if you haven't seen that season, just tune
out now, otherwise you're gonna get spoiled. So with the death of probably
one of my top favorite Star Wars characters, I really really grew to like
that that specific individual. I felt like I could kind of relate to them
to a slight degree, and so when they were killed off, it was
really really sad. And now here we are dealing with the follout of that
and seeing where our characters are in the galaxy. They've suffered heavy, heavy
losses, trying to, I guess, deal with again some of the fallout
from that previous season. You're looking at just go ahead and say you're looking
at Tech Omega, and of course some of these characters like Echo that aren't
dead. I guess Omega's not dead either. But you look at these characters
and they've either died or they've gone off on their own adventure. So the
bad Batch team is looking pretty slim Pickens. When you look inside the Marauder,
you're seeing just a wrecker and hunter that's pretty much it, and a
Gonk joint as well. So it's really changed from that first season. And
I was talking earlier about this actually that the fact that you see these characters
go through such drastic change and their development is so vivid is wonderful. I
really really like it. The tone of the show has turned something from being
that kind of kittiesque comedic aspect that The Clone Wars does have. I'llbe at
first that that first episode of season one had some immensely dark tones to it,
and other episodes which definitely felt filler throughout season one and two certainly were
present, where the comedic and younger aesthetic that those episodes usually do have was
much more reduced in season two. And I've been hoping, hoping, hoping
that Travis, if you listen to this, you get around and you watch
season two, because for me personally, I know I'm biased, and that's
just the kind of Star Wars fan I am because I love everything Star Wars.
Season one absolutely has that Kittie vibe to it, and some of the
characters are just super flamboyant in they're in. They're basically the way they act
like Wrecker and just beings just a wrecking wall and whatnot, and the other
characters reflecting their attributes, is what I'm trying to say. And they really
do a good job of refinding that more in season two and now in season
three, I feel like they've really really landed it. It just feels like
they've knocked it out of the park with these characters. And I guess I'll
let that segue into the first episode, so I still non spoilers. That
first episode was immensely calm, immensely quiet. I really really appreciated how they
kickstarted this season after such a high octane and emotional roller coaster that that finale
of season two was for Star Wars fans. So this episode coming out of
the gate was really nice just to kind of be pumping the brakes and all
the excitement and just be really slow, really really quiet, and just feel
like time is not on your side when you're dealing with these characters and the
problems that they have as well. Now, I will say it's interesting to
see a little bit of tidbits of what they're trying to allude to, and
I say that allude to with what the Empire was doing. It makes me
wonder what this show would have done differently if the Rise of Skywalker was not
the story that they chose, if you didn't have Palpatine and all his weird
stuff on Exigo going on, would this show still be doing what it's trying
to do. I don't think so. I think it would be tackling a
much different galactic scale problem. And I think the same thing goes for Mendalorian.
Well, Mendalorian season three heavily, heavily like jumps into this kind of
Rise of Skywalker's narrative, like background villain narrative. The other seasons of Medalorian
tidbit on a little bit or tiptoe, but season three of Metalaurian it is
wholeheartedly right right in there. And so when you have this show as well,
it's just a curious kind of thing, like what would this show be
without Rise of Skywalker? To have created this interesting imperial storyline that like,
why do the imperials want Omega? What's all this other stuff going on?
Why is Palpatine and said so much in this in this thing here, So
there's a whole lot of stuff going on, and it's it's just really is
interesting. I like it. And even though Rise of Skyworker is not well
received, I still like all this exagal dark stuff that they've done. And
to see it in reflection back in the dark times when we have the Empire
rising up from the age of the Republic, the Old Republic, I think
it's very cool to see these not the stepping stones, but the starting point
of this stuff, and to see coming out of the gate and the people
that are involved with it too, because we have some characters that hear that
again reoccurring from the previous seasons in bad Batch. But man, they're just
they're messed up. But again, these three episodes, they really really do
a good job at kind of expanding and showing casing a little bit more of
what the science division of the Empire was up to. And it's it's not
good shit, not at all. And I say it was the beginning in
this episode one. But I feel like these episodes are all most likely just
going to kind of merge into a blur with each other, so I'll try
in spoilers, I'll try and keep them pretty concise here. So in episode
two they drift away from what was established in episode one, and they do
a good job at kind of okay, bring in the action a little bit.
And none of these episodes felt like filler, which for obvious reasons makes
sense. You want your first premiere to just be the hook. You don't
have any room for filler episodes or filler contents in there. I don't think
this season will be devoid of any filler stuff by any means. I think
we're absolutely on track to get a filler episode or two. But with what
we got in episode two, I really did appreciate how they expanded the world.
We got to see more of what the Empire was doing, and we
got to really connect more with the two remaining Bad Badge characters. It's just
it's you really feel for them. It's sad, and you really really feel
for them, especially just the certain things that they're off doing themselves when you
think, oh, usually this other member of the team would be doing this,
but no, now you have in their their stead wrecker or Hunter trying
to perform these tasks. That's very different from their usual character attributes that I
guess that you could see them doing these things so subtle things where they get
frustrated trying to pull all these things off. There's just so many little tidbits
that they've done that I really really appreciate in this world building show. Now
getting into episode three, they went hot and heavy and they were reeling ye
in. They casted that line out into some deep water and had a nice
piece of bait on there in a very good way and just reeled in.
Because I was digging this episode hard. It was fantastic. I think that
they finally gave us some answers on some things, revealed a little bit of
mystery, and just really had a nice sense of optimism as the episode closed
out. I'm really curious where we're going to go because this episode presented a
not a narrative, but a basic story element that I thought we wouldn't get
until a few episodes in at least, so something that was very short lived
I guess was present here, but it's it's changed and now we're off and
we're the race is doing something else now with the story, and I really
like that because that story kind of wraps itself up and transitions into a new
adventure. Great, and it's transitioned for our villains as well in a very
very interesting way that I can't wait to see how this is gonna unfold.
This episode and episode one both felt like they were just of course, they
were definitely like you'd watch them back to back. Essentially, you could skip
episode two if you really wanted to. In an episode one and three would
work as like a part one, part two and sort of speak. I
wouldn't suggest skipping Episoe two because episode two is wonderful, but needless to say,
episode three definitely serves as a very interesting point for our characters, and
it's just it's scary. It's it's a scary episode with some of the villain
stuff going on, and I'm happy to see where this is gonna go.
So, without further ado, I'm gonna get into some spoilers now. Episode
one is call confined, and so this episode is basically setting up the stage
here the fallow up from season two where you have Omega basically trapped on Mount
Tantis in the facility of the Empire and they're doing all of the different tests
and you see, okay, they're taking clones blood and they've started taking Omega's
blood now because trying to scan it. And we get to see Omega is
reunited with what was her name, Nala's say, I believe is her name?
Let me just confirm here because I got it here because she is with
Yes, Now, let's say so Ana, let's say, is basically destroying
her DNA. And this is something that most people were kind of speculating because
they're thinking, oh, it is Omega for sensitive and it would appear that
she is because the Empire is looking to find a high m count DNA that
basically can make the jump and work in clone DNA. And I mean,
what do you think this is alluding to? Well, right, as a
skywalker, wouldn't you know there's a whole thing there. So we have basically
the pieces here of Omega to become not a Jedi but a Force user.
So her reunion with now LSA and LSA is destroying her DNA trying to prevent
the Empire from knowing that. Okay, she's exactly what they need again,
we thought that this was We thought that they wanted Omega because of what she
was capable of being with her DNA, but then we learned that's not why
the Empire was going after her. Of course, we learned the Empire just
wanted her because an LSA would then cooperate, So that's why they made such
a huge effort to go and hunt her down. And now it just turns
out that they're well, they're then taking her in was actually a huge benefit
to them, if only they could discover the fact that, hey, she's
exactly the kind of m count blood that they need for their whole Ordeal Palpatine
thing. So there's that you have a repetition going on in this episode,
and I thought the episode was ending, but it's just another day and Omega's
just going through the ropes here, and it just is so depressing and repetitive.
But I think it was really filmed in a wonderful, wonderful way that
really sells this isolation that she's experiencing here and the certain things that she's trying
to latch onto to retain that basic sense of herself, whether it be a
batcher or crosshair and batcher. I really liked, and that was such a
dilemma when basically they have these alien dogs that they send out to guard the
facility at night and whatnot, and so Bacher's much more of a kinder one,
and so you have Omega basically taking care of him and whatnot. And
then Batcher gets injured, looks like Bacher's going to be kicked out of the
team, going to be executed, and so basically saves Batcher, sends her
out there, and then we see more more other things that she's doing where
she ends up turning into not turning into but turning to building her own little
doll just to kind of help keep herself kind of getting through the day by
day. And they just the Empire just seems to be going a lot more
harder and harder on grilling her and trying to make sure that she stays conformed.
But the nice thing with this too is while they're trying to keep her
conformed and whatnot, I believe her name is doctor Carr, she visits Omega
and they end up finding that she has the doll and car just she seems
like she's very by the book and very much is kind of back and forth
on where I see her standing because well she takes the doll away, she
ends up giving it back. But then, of course, which we'll talk
about in episode three, there's a certain situation involving Car and it's a game
changer what her decision could do, Like the followut of her decision is very
severe. So Car is up making a bad decision, well, beneficial for
the Empire, bad for Omega. So it's interesting to see that character kind
of go back and forth. And yes, we did learn that Car is
actually a clone of Omega. Sorry they are Oh how did that work?
Car is a clone and they share that same DNA to a slight degree.
Well, Omega is obviously a lot more different than in that front. But
yeah, So basically this episode Service is a really good starting point, and
I loved how it started to with the Imperial shuttle crashing on Whyland and it
just was super dark and scary and whatnot. So I'm very happy with this
episode. I think it was exactly what I think it was exactly what the
show needs to kind of get us back into the group of things after such
a heavy heart of a loss in that first or that season two finale.
So overall, really really good episode. Our next one is called Paths Unknown.
Before I get into this, I'm me jump to a quick ad break
and we'll be right back. And we're back. So Pasa Known was like
something right out of like Alien Covenet or Prometheus. This one was freaky and
I loved it. We got to see a lot of really nice world building
set up here because when you look at the bad Batch currently, it's again,
like I said, hunt A and Recca and they are trying to track
down on Mega. So they resort to their old ways of just doing heists
and stuff like that. But it's not necessarily for credits to score around.
It's like, no, we're doing it for information because we need to find
where Omega is. So what do they do. They go and they do
this high stakes mission and they pull it off. They get this pike,
and then they're given from this pirate group a coordinates basically of oh what was
the doctor's name? Good lord? Oh if you know what, tell me,
because I have completely forgotten, Oh my goodness, the evil doctor that
we see in the show. It's gonna bother me. It's gonna hemlock.
Oh gosh, geez, hemlock. How can I forget that. So Hemlock
is basically he's the he's spearheading this and he's got aspirations, let me tell
you. And those aspirations become apparent in episode three. However, in this
episode, we learned that he had another base on another planet, and so
the coordinates that the bad Batch got take them to this other planet. And
we learned that he was doing scientific experiments on a bunch of different things,
and one of these things was the vines. And so these vines have just
been like infesting this area around the abandoned Imperial base. So basically, when
the bad Badge lands, they meet three young reg Clone Troopers, which it
was very cool. It's just it's just cool to see the kind of like
the young Troopers again since the last time we saw them was Boba Fett's time
and the Clone Wars, maybe they were probably a lot younger. But these
rags basically say like, yeah, we got out of here before they destroyed
the base. Our own Clone troopers said it was just orders and they left
us, and YadA, YadA, YadA. So I was really hoping that
the one young Clone that takes the bad Batch to the facility was actually going
to join their team. Because we've lost so many members of the Bad Batch,
I'm thinking, Okay, this is where we rebuild, we start rejuvenating
the ranks. I guess sort of speak so as needles to say that's not
the case, but it doesn't dismiss the fact that those characters could come back
later on in the season. At the end of this episode, they end
up specifying that, Okay, we're going to take you guys all to a
familiar place in Island and whatnot, which we've seen the island, so we
know that it's it's beneficial, and it's safe, and it's it's welcoming for
refugees of the war. But I digress. So the reason I think that
this episode feels like Alien Coven to Prometheus and whatnot is because the baseline is,
Okay, they've done experimentation, science experiments and whatnot, and so this
is turned into a very dangerous place. And after that, you then all
of a sudden have the Bad Batch going in trying to get Hemlock's computer and
figure out more coordinates inside here. And when they're going in here, this
is like the heart of the alien entity science experiment, and so you basically
have, well, they do damage to some of these aliens, and the
aliens like break apart and turn into like these three legged vine things, and
oh, it's just brutal. It's absolutely brutal. Just terrified because they almost
remind me of face huggers from aliens, and so they're trying to run and
jump on you and whatnot. It's just freaky how they're crawling all over the
place. And so finally that transitions and we eventually bump into what I'm assuming
is like the big Chie he is, the m O, the mother he,
whatever it is. It's just like absolutely huge, and it's just trying
to take them down. And a scene that reminds me and remens this is
sort of like a callback to parts of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest. With
the Kraken, you get an awesome cracking sequence here. This thing like putting
its teeth up through the water, got full crack and mouth going on,
and it's basically pulling down the Marauder. The bad Batch's shipped because at this
time the bad Batch was in the base trying to get this data. The
other two clones that didn't want to help, the two teenage clones, they
essentially got the marauder, hijacked it, and then flew it over to go
and help them. And so there was inspiration from the bad Batch that kind
of channeled into these clones, because while the two young clones were saying,
hey, let's just ditch them and leave, the sense of loyalty and honor
that emanated from the bad Batch really motivated them and I love seeing that,
and so that's why they came and they saved them, and it worked out
for the better. They killed that huge creature thing and flew off into the
distance, and they were able to get a loose bead read bead loose read
on where Omega might be with a coordinate updates. So that was all really
really nice. And we know, okay that Rex and Echo were going to
be coming back for this. They're going to be helping go and rescue Omega
as well, So that's that's pretty awesome. It looks like we're probably gonna
get like a good team up episode coming up soon. But the overall,
I really really enjoyed the episode. So moving into episode three, I was
not expecting this to just unravel as fast as it did. We got Palpatine,
we got Project Necromancer. We got so much going on. The highlights
for me were obviously every time Palpatine was on screen and he's just talking with
Hemlock and Hemlock's aspirations coming through and he wants to be the Imperial Science Division
like main officer the head haun show, and he's just charismatically and sinisterly saying
like, oh, we could do more if we just had more resources.
And Palpatine's like, this is the utmost importance to our empire. Whatever you
need, you'll have it. It's like, holy crap, Okay, Yeah,
Palpatine's got the resources to spend, so it's exactly what Hemlock is pushing
for. He wants all of those resources all at all. I think seeing
the reaction of Palpatine when he gets to be presented with Project Necromancer was great.
And just seeing how he handles himself just kind of like casually waltzing through
the Mount Tantis base is eerie, but it's also funny too how this is
the day that Omega decides to escape, and for good reason, because the
Emperor's here, and that's prompted Hemlock to take nalis A away so that Nasa
can be there for the meeting, and because of that, it means a
NASA cannot destroy the blood samples that Omega is taken. And we see,
okay, that Omega did take a blood sample because Car took it, and
then basically the rules have switched. Hemlock asked Car to go and take the
blood and do blood tests instead of Nalisa. Well, then LSA has to
stay with Hemlock to discuss whatever with the Emperor. So fortunately for Omega,
her DNA or blood was the last sample to be checked and so before that
gets a chance to happen, we see different forms of dialogue between Losa and
Omega, and Lyssa is like, go to my office, get my data
pad, and then get out of here. You have to escape because they're
going to find out what you are. And she does just that, not
before going to save cross Hair, which I'm glad that she went to save
Crosshair. I think that's definitely a must. And he's got so many problems
that he's got to work through. But man, that's that one episode in
season two where Crosshairs work. I can't remember the clone's name, but he
just carries that injured clone commander all the way back to base, just with
the home commander to die, and they wouldn't give a medical attention. Just
a gut wrenching, soulful, heartfelt episode that was. And so again you
have incredible development for a character like Crosshair who just wants to be left behind,
but Omega refuses. And so while he still exhibits some of his interesting
tendencies or attributes as a character, the way he addresses certain situations, which
I like, it's just it's wonderful to see him show such compassion for Omega.
During their escape, of course, they're trying to escape the day that
the emperors here. They have a very interesting plan and it's cool to see
the bad batch plans kind of coming into plant Plan seventy two. So they
managed to steal a enemy ship that was chasing them, and I was not
expecting them to actually get away. I thought they'd be trapped on the planet
at least for another episode. But after the Empire tails them and was going
to destroy them, they managed to get into the hyperspace and escape because the
Empire they yielded off a little bit. Because you have car pro she hemlock
and say, hey, the testing just finished. Guess who's got a compatible
m count for clone DNA. It's Omega, and so they couldn't risk destroying
her, which makes total sense. So I think that's basically everything that I
covered. All in all, I think episode three was definitely a wonderful time.
Episode two is probably the strongest out of the three for me, because
I just love that setup. I love seeing the bad batch and action.
I love seeing this these weird alien creatures that was right on my alley.
And then I think the premiere episode was just it was wonderfully. It was
eerie, it was calm, it was quiet, and it was subtle,
and I think it did a great job at just pulling you in and really
feeling the weight of that season two finale, the weight of the galaxy and
the weight of the empire. So all in all, I can't wait to
get into the next batch of episodes, the next bad batch of episodes,
and I'm probably gonna be doing bundles. I won't be doing weekly for this
just because they are like twenty five twenty four minute long episodes, so just
makes sense for me just to kind of cover the bulk of them. So
whether it's three episodes or four episodes, I'll be back in a couple of
weeks to talk more a bad Batch. I cannot wait. Yeah, have
you have any questions? Send in your questions comment below let me know what
you think of the show. I love to hear it. So until then,
everybody, take care and we'll see you in the search bar. Have
a good one.