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I am your host, Taylor, and today we're continuing along our spoilers
review of Star Wars the bad Batch season three. Now, just so you
are aware, I've been doing this in bulk reviews, so basically covering four
episodes at a time, where we have done episodes one to three and now
I just was not expecting episode six and seven to be back to back.
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I'm briefly non spoilers first here. These episodes were absolutely wonderful. The quality
of this show is beyond anything I've been anticipating and expecting. When you get
to that season one of the Bad Batch, it follows up after the Clone
Wars, and while some of the Clone War stuff is very serious and very
much engaging and adult oriented, a lot of the stuff that they do through
in those shows is just over the top kid crazy frenzy and whatnot. But
I appreciate how a kid can still I mean, maybe I'm not a kid,
so I can't speak for kids, but I would like to think and
I appreciate that maybe a kid can watch this and still get enjoyment out of
this show. But as an adult, wow, give me this in live
action. I really really want this in live action. But that being said,
these four episodes were really something great. I had a good time getting
to see a little bit more of Crosshair and Omega, their story and their
connection developing between the two, getting to see more of Hunter and Wrecker and
seeing them kind of connect as characters, and just see more familiar faces that
sprouted out in these episodes. It was really really wonderful, and we got
a little bit more insight to a degree of just what's going on and the
overarching narrative. And now the Hunt is really really on to try and complete
this mission objective that our one character is trying to achieve. Trying not to
be super super spoiler here, but there's just there's something building up here and
I'm really really looking forward to it. But I'm also really scared because I
feel like none of these characters are safe, and that's what really really concerns
me. I love these characters. I love the abundance of clones that we're
getting to see in this series, and so as a clone guy, it
hurts whenever I see some of them die. But overall, I think that
each episode here does a great job and does not really it doesn't live up
to the title of being a filler episode, which we've labeled things in the
past, whereas a filler episode just serves as what it is. It's filling
the episode in between the main story plots of a season. And I feel
like for the most part, for these episodes, while they are acting as
that filler, they do a wonderful job at continuing that main storyline and continuing
in being detrimental to our characters development and the progression in this narrative. And
I think that's absolutely wonderful. So I think that this wi this show just
it does, it does so much. Justice really really love it so well.
Further Ado, let's get into some spoilers here the episode for a different
approach. Now we see following Yeah, spoilers, I guess should say,
following the escape of Tantis Base, Omega across their flee on their stolen transport
shuttle and they've gotten through hyperspace. They did get damage and they tried to
reach the bad Batch, but they were not able to. So while they're
trying to fix the ship, they decide, okay, we've got a crash
land And this just felt like a real nice, laid back kind of episode
with them just trying to make their way off planet. And I mean they
managed to, but this reminded me of things with like Solo a little bit
and a little bit of and Or, because you get to see this really
confident side of Omega that I really appreciate when she just starts gambling and you
get to see her take on this local governor, which was I love the
character. This is just felt immersive. It felt like it was well well
sawced inside the Star Wars universe. It didn't feel like it was just main
characters and the main story anything like that. Again, this is a perfect
example for me. Or it didn't feel like a filler even though this was
basically just a filler episode. They didn't have to land here, they didn't
have to go on this brief adventure. They could have just crash lined or
escaped or gotten to their base, whatever. But I appreciate the quality of
world building that this episode did. And I also appreciate that this game that
they created. In the Bad Batch here, I read that it is apparently
a game that the animators they tested. They actually created this game. It's
not Sabakh, but it's an actual game that they were able to play and
they implemented that into the show. So I think that's a really cool concept
that they were able to pull off. Now, obviously Hemlock is just salivating.
He needs to find out where Omega is because Omega has got that m
Count dyl Muss. In the chat, there's a solo of you, Bad
Batch, So I think Hemlock has just proved to be still a very mysterious
character. We know that he has some very powerful motivations. He wants to
move up in his position. He wants to get in more favor with the
Emperor, so you got that going on for him. But he's still got
an Lsa imprisoned and is still trying to keep her around for some benefit which
we're not really sure yet, but we know that the m count is what
he's juicing for. It's what he's going for, and Omega's got it.
Now we see our characters get through this whole ordeal of dealing with this governor
and what wasn't supposed to turn into a fight turns into a fight, and
I feel like you really get to see this different side across here here as
he's understanding and becoming a little bit more closer with Omega. And I like
seeing the relationship full because before, while all the characters of the Bad Batch
have had that unique personal relationship with her, we never got to see cross
Hair have this, and so now we're finally getting that, and it's only
expanding as each episode progresses, and I'm really thankful for that, because two
seasons without Crosshair and Omega having a real strong connection, it's nice to see
it finally unfold here. So we eventually at the end of all this,
we get to see Omega put out a signal. They get on the ship,
they leave with Crosshair, and they have Batcher still with them, so
they managed to put out a signal, they figure out where the Hunter Wrecker
are and they land there and you just get this super tense moment because why
would they trust Crosshair. I don't doubt it whatsoever, their apprehensive tension hesitation
to trust such a character, and I'm just I'm excited to see how this
kind of rebuilds and their friendship maybe rekindles, but between them and just the
end scene there of just being the standoff, I really appreciate it and liked
it, so I think it was a great episode, really really do.
Moving on from that, we get episode five, and this one is called
the Return. So after Omega wakes up, she enters the common area where
she's greeted by hundred Wrecker and recor gives her fruit sent by Shep and Leanna.
Basically, we're back on Paradise. This is our familiar location we've seen
in season two, and we just kind of see things progressing with Crosshair here
that we understand. Now, Okay, he's definitely not the same trooper he
used to be. He's definitely going through some things. And I'm not just
talking mentally, although maybe it is mental that's affecting his skills, but I'm
meaning mostly the physical sense, where he's definitely he's lost his shot, you
could say, and it's just it could very well stem from some mental perspective
or causation causality, but it remains to be seen. We've yet to really
figure that out. They do expand on that a little bit more in the
next episode, but for now we'll just we'll keep checking on. So the
apprehensive perspective and stance that Hunter has with Crosshair is expedited a lot more in
this episode, exponentially greater record that you don't really detect from him, and
not because records. They're just playing this all broad, no brain character.
He's absolutely grown and developed into a really, really a passionate character, I
would dare say now, not at all like the blue blue kind of person
that he maybe was trying to be portrayed as in that first season or at
least the last season of the Clone Wars. He's he's changed. He's really
changed, and I'm really really thankful for that as a character and how he's
grown. So our characters here basically want to dive into Ana. Let's say,
is data pad that Omega swiped, and this is something now, let's
say gave Omega when she was trying to escape from Tantas. So they have
data pad and they're thinking, okay, we're going to go to We're going
to go to a base here banded one and see what we can see.
And this is interesting because of course we get Echo coming back to join the
fight, which is great, but the planet that we're going back to is
where is a snowy planet Barton for And if you are familiar with this planet,
this is where a certain things were stored for the Empire back in the
previous season. And we see Crosshair having been stationed here for a brief bit
dealing with some rebel activity going on some pirates. But there was and you're
gonna people are gonna kill me, kill me, but there was Clone troopers
that were stationed here, and one of the Clone commanders was basically here for
a long long time. And I was reading some articles about how it's interesting
that they probably were here and didn't even have like they weren't aware of Order
sixty six. This this thing would have just happened. But they were stationed
out here, They're no Jedi around, they were just kind of left to
their own devices. So this is a very very deep and powerful callback for
Crosshair as a character. And I love that episode in the season two.
It is so emotionally heavy because of the things that Crosshair goes through to save
this Clone and it just ends in literally him dying at the very very end,
and it was all for nothing, and just to see the loyalties and
how this thing goes. And I mean that was turning point for Crossir.
That's where he fired upon his superiors and basically said, you know what,
screw it, I'm done. This is this is not who I want to
be and not who I want to serve. So this is definitely a very
interesting place to visit. You see it still reflected how Hunter does not trust
Crosshair because crossairs like, I'm gonna go survey the area, this and that,
but they get a This episode is actually timed well because Dune too dropped
and so you get like snow snowworms the very much like Dune style, and
they're kind of going through the snow and everything like that. So this is
very fitting to have some more Doom centric stuff even though it's a different landscape
or terrain. But yeah, overall, I think it was great. They
again this was to act as another filler, but it didn't serve as a
filler to me at all. It just served as another key character device episode
that was really focused on exploring more of this relationship between this character coming back
into our friends' lives. So you see a lot of the protectiveness too emanating
from Crosshair with with Omega as well, but overall it was just a really
really good episode. I'm really really happy with it, and it sets up
kind of getting into our next episode where let's see here, I'm gonna dive
into it after the sad break and we're back. So the next episode here
is getting into familiar territory where you've seen some of these like assassination clones,
these guys that are basically trained and to do really really crazy things, and
they don't seem to have any recollection of their brothers. Their they're clone brothers.
They're just they're they're clone troopers based off Django's DNA, but they are
wholeheartedly they're evil and mission oriented, ejected, and they are not stopping for
anything else. And if you catch one, well, they'll bite into their
teeth and they'll kill themselves. Very very crazy. And I mean they haven't
confirmed it, but I'm pretty sure that these are clones that are affiliated or
stemming from what's going on the experiments on Tantus to a slight degree. It's
hard to say, but it was nice to see that we get a whole
list of recognizable clone troopers here with it being Rex again, Echoes coming back,
Houser from earlier on in the Bad Batch series, so it was good
to see him pop in. I was nervous because that episode two is one
of my favorites, when his squad kind of divides up and some of the
Clones don't want to turn and some of the Clones do want to stick to
the Empire, and it was just a really really good, a good little
arc. Anyways, So this episode Infiltration, it's episode six, and it
starts off with an assassination attempt, and we see some familiar faces here,
like Senator Chucci, and then we see another one Separatists, a former Separatist
senator actually called Singh, and we've seen him from Clone Wars, and so
just to see again the dynamic between a clone, sorry not clone, a
Republic old Republic senator and a Separatist senator kind of teaming up is very interesting.
And I think this was just to serve as the baseline. They made
it seem like it was a much more grandiose thing, even though it really
it is, But it was not the foundation for this episode. It was
just okay, if this evil Clone was here to assassinate one of them and
break up this meeting, and we have Rex just doing his stuff. His
clones are all here, and it was really cool to see that he has
like a whole platoon of Clone Troopers working with him. They all got different
colored armor and whatnot. It was just really really awesome. I was really
driving with it. And I would easily take a live action show of just
Clone Troopers doing their own, their own mo stuff like this. It's it's
totally awesome. Granded, that's what the bad batches. But I mean live
action. Give me the live action. Put in a bunch of a bunch
of Clone Troopers post Order sixty six. I just I really want to see
it tomorrow. Morrison just dozens of him everywhere. I aggress though, So
after this meeting obviously doesn't go their way, but we know that they were
talking about creating a rebellion, so to speak, to pose Emperor Palpatine.
There is a little bit of dialogue that I really wanted to latch onto here
and highlight, and it's the fact that they talk about how they are leaderless.
But even if Emperor Palpatine was to do something and do something drastic here,
he would not be able to sway public support. And I find that
very powerful because at this time, we know that he's Emperor and he can
do what he wants for the most part, but it doesn't mean that there's
freedom free of or actions free of consequence, and he's still subject to that
consequence. And it calls back to season two when he's taught trying to get
to the Clone Troopers dismissed in, the Stormtroopers brought in, and Admiral Rampart
is dealt with, and he comes into the Assembly and talks to the Senate.
You can see how he's trying to appeal to the like a public opinion,
and it's just one of those things that I really like and I love
seeing one of those sides of Palpatine, and so the fact that he's still
subject to that is interesting. And we know too in a New Hope that
those remnants that he was still subject to of that public opinion was swept away.
It didn't matter anymore, and he could basically do whatever he wanted because
he had enough power and enough supremacy. So this is just a nice little
touching point on continuing that story for Palpatine's character and that universe building. However,
so continuing on from that, we see that the Clone trooper that they
kidnapped the assassin one Rex Houser and nemech I believe his name was bring it
back to their base and they check out one of the Puck targets and it
looks like Omega's on there, so they decided to call the bad batch hunter
cross her record and Omega come drop by and they basically tell him, hey,
Omega is being hunted. You need to be careful. And we get
a little bit of a little bit of inquiry here because they talk about how
like why why are they looking for you Omega. Omega is like something about
an m count and Rex is like, okay, well you know what.
I've heard that before, but I'm not really sure what it means, which
is a shame because I feel like he would know. But m count is
based off Medchlorians and Mediclorians. I mean, the only time they talk about
Mindiclorian's I'm pretty sure was the Phantom Menace. I don't think they touched upon
that in episode two, and definitely not episode three, and certainly not the
sequel trilogy. So I think it's it's it's I like the idea of m
Count. I think it's a fun touch touch pit touch bad thing. Uh.
I can't eve remember if they talk about in the Mandalorian with Grogu,
But that's for another deep dive another day. So they get the puck.
They know that Omega is being targeted, and because they've captured this one Rogue
clone or Assassin clone, another one has basically been activated. And this one
feels like we know that they're clones, but this one feels different. We
never saw the helmet come off, but man, they've really wanted you to
feel a connection to this one, like he wasn't just some other Assassin clone.
The whole time throughout the episode, we're really focused and engaged with him
and what he was doing. And even in the end of this episode when
they made it seem like he died and he didn't, they get focused on
the fact that, Okay, he's probably gonna come back, and he like,
are we supposed to recognize him? People are saying maybe it's Tech,
which I hope not. Please don't be tech. Tech is gone, Tech
die the hero. Don't let him become a villain. So I'm very interested
to see who and if this is just indeed another clone and whatnot, and
this kind of vendetta he's gonna have, but he basically causes all this shit.
The base is basically taken down, and lo and behold we get Commander
Wolf who is swooping in here with his Clone troopers. And I'm happy to
see more Clone troopers still in service of the Empire. And I say that
because I don't I don't like seeing the clones work for the Empire, but
I'm happy to see that the transition hasn't fully taken place between stormtroopers taking over.
We've just seen a heavy Stormtrooper presence on Mount Tantis, which is fine,
but it's funny to still see a lot of Clone troopers still in the
enlisting with uh the Empire, but still questioning some of the Empire's motives and
orders. And so when you have this assassin clone trying to do his thing,
Commander Wolf is like, oh, what what are you doing? Like
you gotta be I'm paraphrasing, but you can't be doing that. Come on,
no, no, no, no no. He's applying logic and reason
to all this. And so he's got his clones with him as well.
He's got a Republic commando, a Clone commando with him too. But so
basically he starts the pursuit because he's like, why are their clones here?
This is super weird, like they're what, they're targets. Their rebels know
they're clones. And so that kind of continues on and we see more of
a dilemma between Crosshair trying to get his shot back, but he's super protective
of Omega. Episode and I really really like it, and yeah, it's
felt like it got claustrophobic really really quick because the Empire just popped in here.
And this kind of is what surprises me because this then transitions into the
next episode where it's called Extraction, and this episode I was really pleasantly surprised
with. I thought it was fantastic getting to see Gregory in here and getting
to see the face to face the confrontation between Rex and Wolf. I appreciated
that Wolf understood the situation and understood that if I mean, if this was
anyone else another Clone Trooper, he probably wouldn't have batted an eye. I
would have followed orders, but set the guns to stun and let's be done
with this. Even though the fallen Clone Troopers or insurrectionist rebels, would you
want to call them. They're still their brothers, and so they were going
to bury them properly, clack the bodies and whatnot. And I can really
appreciate that. And this sets the foundation too, because we know that Wolf
ends up in Star Wars Rebels. He's up there with Rex and Gregor,
so we know at some point something's gonna happen here and he's gonna make the
jump too. But I think that this episode, again, it's it's very
much. It's just it's a continuation from last the previous one, of course,
and we just have the team trying to escape, and we got this
bloody evil Clone who's just going to town, going crazy like the Bee's knees
on our squad here, and you get to see Crossair adapt to make some
alterations because he's not super super accurate anymore, so as you do, he
throws a bomb and then shoots the bomb, knowing the bomb will have an
area of effect instead of just a direct shot. So he's pulling out some
strings, which I can appreciate. But overall, I think this episode was
great. It was visually appealing because when the ships are landing, the animators
did such a good job. You're seeing like the smoke and wisps all throw
like the ships and stuff like that. It's absolutely awesome. I love it.
And yeah, sadly Nemck doesn't make it, but Buser gets gets out
here, which is great. Uh yeah, the Clone base is pretty much
gone and totaled, but the crew is all together and it's gonna be interesting
to see what happens. Because moving on from this, when we got one,
two, three, four, five, six and eight more episodes,
so you're gonna get two more reviews out of me. And I mean,
we've got bad Territory, the Harbinger at any crisis. I won't get read
all of them out of spoilers, but uh yeah, the last the last
couple episodes, I can't wait to see what's gonna happen. I imagine that
we're gonna get some unexpected deaths here, which is gonna be really really quite
sad. But just having our our whole group, our whole band back together
is wonderful. And I for second thought that Omega was gonna get captured in
this episode. I really really did. It's funny too how Wolf doesn't give
a shit about this role Clone Assassin Clone and just left them behind that's that's
funny. But I'm I'm happy where we're at. I'm happy with our characters,
and I'm looking forward to what's next. So thank you for tuning in
to this review. I'll be back in well, we'll see it could be
four weeks, could be three weeks, who knows, but I will be
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