Hello ladies, gentlemen, Welcome back to another episode of geek First Podcast.
I am your host today Tatfield, and I am going back into the world
of Star Wars the Galaxy Far Far Away, covering the bad Batch season three,
the final season. I apologize because I was trying to do four episodes
and then a review four episodes in a review, and it just went over
my head. Oh my gosh. They did a double episode dropped the other
week. So here we are. You're getting five episodes discussed in this in
this review today of key Verse podcast. So before we get into that,
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of good retrospectives popping off. There are lots of things in the works.
We got Mad Max retro that's on there, planning the apes retro leading up
to the new films coming out. We also have an Aliens retro that's going
to be dropping soon once we start recording that leading up to Alien Romulus.
Wait to get into that with Kirklin and Travis. Maybe Dell I'm not sure
if he's joining for that, but we'll see. What else do we got
going on. We have our summer anniversary event that is in the works.
It's gonna be a lot of fun, and stay tuned because Travis is a
lot more details than I do at this time regarding that and the events that
we're planning. But other than that, I think that's pretty much it.
We have Civil War that's being reviewed this week, and we have we have
a few other movies that are kind of cooking up too that will maybe be
doing reviews on. So lots of stuff always popping off in the geek first,
it's always a good time. But without further ado, I'm probably just
going to combine my discussion and of all these episodes just kind of seamlessly move
through them. But before I get into the spoilers thoughts, of course,
non spoilers first, The things that we're getting in these episodes have been so
wonderful, so developed and fine tuned. And I've mentioned this on the previous
review, but ever since season one, they've really done a fantastic job at
really exploring these characters and not making them flamboyantly exaggerative versions of themselves that were
introduced back in the Clone Wars final season. What we're getting here just feels
much more refined, and I'm so happy to see these characters grow and develop.
And it's just been an absolute pleasure to see where we're at with all
the loss and the tribulation that our characters have faced, and just to see
where our characters like Crossair have come into the fold, back into our team
after having gone through so many problems and pain and tribulation, So just to
see how relationships are broken and have rekindled and developed. It's just been absolutely
wonderful just to see this degree of storytelling, and it's just really given me
hope to a point where I'd love to see some of the live action shows
and movies kind of hit some of these marks with their developments. Because of
course, it's not all perfect, and I'm pretty biased because I love everything
Star Wars, I really do, but I have to take a back seat,
and I'm I acknowledge the fact that not everything Mandaloria and not everythingh Sooka
and all that is perfect, but there are there are good things that are
residing in all these different not franchises, but different portrayals and storylines that have
been pulled out of Star Wars, and bad Batch is doing a great job
at building up to climactic finales and giving us incredible character development. I'm not
saying that it's to avoid in the other mediums like live action movies and shows,
they're definitely there, but it just feels like there's there's something that is
just really focused on here over the Maybe it's just the spread of three seasons
and you can really see how the characters have grown while other shows, our
Star Wars shows are still hitting hitting their strides. I mean, Mandalorian has
had three seasons and we're getting a movie now, So that makes sense why
some of those characters a little bit more developed. But then again, not
all those characters do feel like they've been refined and have been developed enough in
comparison to our bad Batch characters. Where you have a crosshair, just the
level of trauma that he's experiencing when he's talking about not wanting to go back
to tent I don't get that almost gotten to some spoilers, but there's just
there's just certain degrees of notes that they're hitting with these characters, and I'm
just a broken record at this point as I elaborate more on that, but
it's just it's been wonderful, and these episodes in particular do so much justice
in acting. I don't want to say filler because I feel like I haven't
gotten a filler episode in this season so far, and a lot of them
are just adventures that are adding and careening our story narrative forwards towards our ultimate
climactic ending, and I really appreciate that. I like when you're not just
clone warsing it up. I guess where you just have all doctor Vindi from
Nabooge, who's putting out this plague. It's irrelevant. In another episode it's
just one off kind of gig. Well, there's entertainment and some of that
stuff. It's nice to just have one cohesive story and then side missions that
all add towards moving and progressing that narrative forward. And I really really am
happy with that, and I feel like this show has really refined that and
been executing it quite well. So when we get to these episodes, you
see more of our characters going through tribulations, more of them introduced to characters
we're familiar with but we haven't seen before, connecting with the bad Batch,
which has been really really nice, and then we see a lot more high
stakes and risks taken, and it's just it's just been great leading up to
more familiar characters returning again like in this last episode from this week, episode
twelve, it's just been fantastic. I'm just I'm happy to see little nods
towards the prequels. You could say as well that they're just kind of acknowledging
certain things, whether it's terminology or characters. But I'm just very very happy
with where we're at, and I can't wait because we have three episodes left
and I just feel like these things are coming down to the wire, and
it's nice to know that once, of course, this show sadly will come
to an end, that I feel like it's gonna have a dark ending,
that we're gonna be moving on to another May the fourth series, Tales of
the Empire. Following Tales of the Jedi success, we're getting another Tales show
that it was rumored a little bit ago, I believe me and Travis were
talking about it. Where they were talking about maybe tales of the syth tales
of rebellions, stuff like that, but here we go Tales of the Empire.
I cannot wait because we're getting thrown. We've got bariss OFFI who's popping
back in there, and uh, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be
absolutely wonderful. Anyways, that's what we're talking about tonight. We're talking about
Star Wars a bad Batch. So I'm gonna take a quick ad break here
and then I'm going to get into the nitty gritty spoilers, so we will
be right back, and we are back. So let's talk about episode eight,
Bad Territory. Now, we have bad Batch basically asking Fee to inquire
about the Empire's M counts experiments, and she basically mentions, okay, well,
the bounty hunters have been hired to search for targets that have high m
counts. This, that's that's interesting, and it touches up it's touched upon
in another episode upcoming. But I like how that is basically a call back
to another Clone Wars episode, but we'll touch upon that later. So basically,
we get introduced to Shann Fenex shanned here reintroduced the US, I should
say, because we've gotten to know her through bookable effect and she's made some
appearances obviously and has been encountered by the bad Batch previously. But Hunter and
Wrecker are seeking her out. The base just need to know what she knows
about m counts because Hunter is going out and it was so nice to have
her character back. I think she's really really an awesome bounty hunter. I
think she's got a lot of character to her, a lot of loyalty,
and there's a little something else in there where she's definitely not like a cad
Bane. I would dare say she's definitely something different. And so Omega cross
her. They stay back on Pabo and Omega basically is trying to help Crosshair
with the trauma because we've seen him so far. He's got this nervous twitch
going on and he's trying to overcome this block that he has because his sniping
skills are not the same as what they used to be. But moving on
to Hunter and Record, now, basically Shan says, okay, you help
me get a target, I'm gonna tell you what I know. And so
they managed to successfully get the target and then Shan says, Okay, I'm
gonna stay in touch and I'll hook you up with the information when I get
it. So they go their separate ways. Now the episode was it was
really really fun. I thought that the animation is so beautiful. Oh my
god, it's gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. And so we're on this weird,
really swampy planet because they're looking for this guy is like a lizard kind of
creature alien Siler Sarrus is the target. The whole area is super super cool.
You can't breathe air, it's not breatheable. It's all poisonous. They
have to wear their masks and they're in the swamps and stuff like that.
Just a horrible planet to really call home. But it was very cool to
see them work with Shen and just kind of team up and go and get
the target. But other than that, it was really just a bounty hunt
chase. And again I'd say that there wasn't really many fillers in this.
This didn't feel like filler. It just felt to me like, Okay,
this is what the bad Batch is doing because they have this gold and they
need to get the information about m Counts. So the contact that we learn.
Moving into episode nine, the Harbager is as Sage Ventris, which is
pretty awesome. And it's amazing because Assage ends up learning where or Omega and
the Bad Batch are and knows how to get there its secret. So I
think that's one of the maybe the cons because I feel like, Okay,
the Bad Batch needs to talk to FEB needs to make sure that they got
some security in place here, but they don't learn their lesson from Venturess,
and the upcoming episodes kind of show why things kind of fall apart. But
I digress. So Assage Venture shows up, tells the Bad Batch that the
m count signifies a person's connection to the Force, and basically starts testing Omega
using her own Jedi techniques. And I think that this was really really wonderful
to see this side of Venturess, because you really see this young, adolescent,
angry version of Assage Venturess. In the Clone Wars, we get a
little backstory where we see that her Master was someone who got stranded on a
planet, took her and as a forced sensitive, and trained her in the
ways of the Jedi arts. On this planet, Master got killed, left
her basically for dead as they were trapped on the planet, and that's when
Dooku comes in and meets her and then recruits her. So basically, the
bad Batch understands and identifies, Okay, this is venturous, she was a
separatist assassin during the Clone wars. Omega trusts her, and you get some
cool sea monster stuff going on, and basically you have Ventures trying to convince
Omega that her amcount is low and that you don't need to worry about it.
Obviously, the others can tell she's lying, and we kind of get
a little bit of a conflict here. But the fight, I felt like
the fight was forced, and I feel like that they could have just they
could have skipped over it. They didn't need to do into this whole dispute.
I get that they were apprehensive, but you should know that you listen
to what Assage Adventures is saying that both sides have been used and that the
Empire came out on top, and that she's just as much a victim and
a war criminal. I guess as they are at this point. So that's
just how I kind of feel about it. But I still loved everything,
and I thought the bad Batch getting the upper hand on her was great,
and then she's whipping out her lightsaber, her yellow lightsaber, which was super
wonderful. I love seeing that her hair toos looks her whole style, super
super cool, very very awesome. But basically she elaborates to them that Okay,
you guys are not safe here. And I had a second thought where
maybe she would take Omega and make Omega like her apprentice. I just think
I just think it's kind of funny how the natural instinct of a Force user
is like, Okay, I'm gonna recruit you. You can use the Force.
Okay, come on, come learn from me and be my be my
apprentice. It's just kind of like the go to default of any Force user.
It seems like I digress. So the bad Batch understands, Okay,
they're not safe on Pappy because she could track them there, so others could
track them there. We get to episode ten Identity Crisis, and basically we
see that NAL's Say is imprisoned. Hemlock is like, okay, helped Omega
and cross her escape. I'm not happy with you. You're staying in jail.
But he does promote Emory to be the new lead scientist of Project necromancer.
So this is the first step for Emory slowly becoming more and more unimpressed
with the Empire. She's learning more about the subjects being tested on that they're
actually children, and this is the first time we get to actually see these
children that all have high m counts, and basically she's really just upset with
herself and upset with how cold and disregarded they are being treated. And it
is very unfortunate, but this is just how the Empire works. Now,
this is where we get another character that we're familiar with and reintroduced. We
get to see Bain and he's basically capturing a kid who is for sensitive And
this one really really made me think back to when Sidius had Bain go and
capture for sensitive children. I really really like this kind of callback to it.
And Bain's the best in the business for this kind of thing. I
mean absolutely, he's great. And you see that in the beginning of this
episode when the woman is basically in the market with a little boy and a
little baby basically uses the force as something they shouldn't have and then someone reports
it. If you knew your kid was special and was doing forced stuff,
you don't bring the kid outside. Unfortunately, you just got to keep them
under lock and key because they're lucky. Baine was the one that went to
apprehend because if it was an inquisitor, I feel like that could have gone
much, much worse. So that's my thoughts. But Bain basically abducts this
child, takes a child to it looked like it was Corus Sant I'm pretty
sure, and we got some really cool visuals here of course on basically these
docking stations out in orbit, Venitor class cruisers that were docked to it was
just visually breathtaking. Absolutely loved it. So Emory shows up there basically to
get the kid and basically pays Baane sends Bane on his way. I don't
I don't expect to see Bane again. This is just like a one I've
done, and I'm totally happy with that little cameo. Same as the same
with Finnick Shan that was those are just easy things. I could see maybe
Assage Ventures coming back, but I'm not holding my breath. I think that
was just just right. And actually, before I continue on, there was
a line that Assage Ventures said, this is just like one of my many
lives I'm paraphrasing, of course, but she hints at many lives, and
I feel like people that are very lore Cannon heavy and are upset because of
how the books elaborated on her death. I also feel like there could be
a lot of Night Sisters, Dathomeria and Magic involved with her somehow still being
alive. I wouldn't put it past them to tap into that, especially if
she's talking about multiple lives. That's it seems too good to be true.
So basically child is delivered and Hemlock is talking with c X two. Ow
okay, he's close to finding Omega after learning about uh Fee. Basically,
Fee is basically tied into the next episode when CX two, which is the
super Stealth Clone, understands, okay, I gotta find Fee and Fee is
going to be targeted here to find Pabu's location, and so you get a
pretty cool starting point of episode eleven point and Overturn where Fee's ship is not
attacked but snuck on board by CX two, gets in a navigation computer and
then basically thinks, Okay, I got the information, I'm gonna bounce off
to Pabu and coincidentally, the bad Badge is also worried, and I feel
like they should have left a long time ago. They took their sweet time.
But they're prepping their ship, they're getting a ready to leave the planet.
When CX two arrives confirms that they're here and totally fucks with their part
of my language sc ruins their day. He actually destroys the marauder, blows
them up seriously, injures Record, basically knocking them out of commission, and
basically gets a fair amount of reinforcements here. All there are. Means of
escape are cut off, there's no ships that they can take. Boats are
disarmed, and so you have this venitor just sitting right above the island,
gunships flying around, and so you have many attempts by the badmatch to get
out of here, but with Record being taken out of commission, you have
Hunter going for a gunship. Doesn't end well, it doesn't go successfully,
and so Crosshair is basically protecting Omega. But Omega understands that she needs to
volunteer herself for being captured and that'll hopefully spare the rest of the people.
I don't know how the rest of the village would be properly spared. Because
imperial rule would just lay dominion over this town now. But needless to say,
she puts herself up and she basically gets taken into Tantis again. So
it had a fantastic uh set up here with Crosshair, because the plan was
as Omega decided that I'm going to put myself up and surrender across her,
You're going to shoot a targeting tracker onto the ship, and I'm going to
lead you guys all the way to Tanta. So basically you get this really
high intense shot. I didn't think they'd be bold enough to actually have Crosshair
miss here, but he does. He fails to get the targeting tracker onto
CX two's ship when X two leaves with the Mega and I my jaw dropped.
I was in absolute awe. But that's the way it goes. So
I moved on to episode twelve Juggernaut, where Fee manages to sneak to Pabo
and ends up rescuing the bad Batch members get some out of there, and
now we learn that Crosshair has a last resort on how to find Tantas,
and this is where we touched upon Admiral Rampart, who had a interesting run
in season two until the Empire betrayed him for destroying Corossant, which is a
absolutely wild, wild setup of events, just absolutely wild. Was that season
two two? Or maybe that was season one. I can't remember, it's
been so long. Oh gosh, No, maybe that was a season one
finale, because yeah, season two. I'm trying to think of all the
times that Palpatine appeared. Season one was Rampart and season two was when Palpatine
appeared for the legislation of the Stormtroopers being commissioned. That's right, that's right,
Okay, got it, I got our facts and all I apologize because
I'm recovering from a little bit of a cold, so my head is kind
of all over the place. But we're making it work. So on this
episode twelve Juggernaut, when X two basically gets Omega back to Tantis, they
kind of like shut X two down. That not literally shut him down,
but he's kind of like out for the remainder of the episode. And I'm
hoping with three episodes left, we get a little bit more of him,
because I don't think he's just a regular clone. People have been speculating that
he is tech. I don't think he's tech because the tech's body that fell
from that height would have just exploded as it hit the crowd because that was
very high. I'm hoping that it's just a random clone, or maybe it
is some kind of cool other character, but it don't make a tech that
would really really suck. So Emory's testing Omega's blood confirms that it's got the
high amcount that they need, and then we get some interesting dialogue here between
Omega and hemlockas he's talking about Project Necromancer. We learned that through cloning,
you can't clone an individual's m count. That's something that it's just it's impossible.
And obviously we know at this point Palpatine's trying to clone another body,
and that body has to have a high m count, it has to have
a high connection to the force. And the thing with Omega is she is
a clone and she's got that high m count. Her blood is compatible with
the clones that they're trying to build, and the clones that they're trying to
build obviously allows them to replicate and create that high m count in their bodies.
That's obviously where we get to Snoke and everything down the road, and
it's interesting how that ties into the Mandalorian season three because we see that Gideon
created or sensitive clones of himself as soldiers, which is fascinating because that was
that had to have been stemming from Omega and the research that's done here,
and that was pulled with the m Count Midichlorian's I'm assuming that was from Grogu.
So there's a lot that's pulled from there to from this episode to future.
And I like how those things are kind of tying together. That's really
really nice. But how this is gonna end, I really don't know.
It Just it's interesting because I feel like the Empire is gonna get the win
here, and I think we're gonna see some more deaths. As much as
I hate to say that, it's just there's not gonna be a sequel sequel
show to this, and I feel like the bad Batch isn't obviously in anything
else, So what's gonna happen. Are we just gonna kind of have them
escape with Omega? Are they going to run away and we get a comic
book run that's gonna detail their next adventures? I hope not. I hope
that this series actually concludes their stories just like that. But as far as
their stories go. In this episode, they have to go get ramparts.
So he's locked up in prison for what the Empire portrayed him for and they
basically go to Imperial labor camp and with Fees help because she's piling the ship.
Basically, the bad Batch hijacks one of the prison transfer vehicles. My
favorite and one of the few vehicles with wheels in Star Wars universe, a
Clone turbo tank, one of these badass little things. It's just it's fantastic.
We've seen them in Star Wars Revenge of the Scyth, we saw it
in Star Wars Were One, So this thing's made a few live action appearances
and then it's appeared in a couple animated sequences as well. But it's really
cool, and we really got to see it displayed like in full armament here,
and we haven't seen that since Revenge of the Scyth, where it's just
firing the rockets from the sides, turbo lasers off the top. It was
just really really cool, and the action sequence here was really fun, seeing
the gunships go against it, dropping storm droopers on the top of it too.
I really enjoyed all of it, and I enjoy seeing that Imperial officers
just kind of reacting to these situations. That was neat. But Rampart is
saved and we basically get some exposition here where he acknowledges Okay, I don't
have the directions to Tantis, but the coordinates I can share how we can
get them. I might have my own ways. So basically that's where we're
left on this cliffhanger going into episode thirteen, into the Breach, where I
feel like we're gonna have Rampart help them to find the coordinates to get where
they're gonna go. I don't know what Rampart's plan is. He did make
an attempt to betray and shoot Crosshair, but Crosshair got the you got the
jump on him, so he can't go back to the Empire. I don't
know if he's got friends. It's gonna be just going to see what Rampart's
ultimate what is next move is gonna be. Even if he's gonna have a
movie. He might just get killed by Crosshair. I could see that happening
because Crosshair doesn't like him very much. But that is that's pretty much in
for these episodes. Again, I was very very happy with them. I
had a good time, and I thoroughly enjoy seeing familiar faces reappear in this
universe. It's wonderful and the animations ten out of ten, absolutely incredible.
With three episodes left, I'm really wondering, like I've already added to I'm
really wondering how they're going to conclude this deaths and cliffhangers, all that kind
of stuff, how they're going to set this stuff up, and how it's
going to tie into the Mandalorian, because I really feel like Project Necromancer is
going to tie into that, and it's going to tie in even further to
down the road to Last Jedi. So I guess the whole trilogy really was
Snoke and then with Palpatine's Body and Rise of Skywalker, it'll be interesting to
see how all of that works out. So until I guess three weeks from
now, May the First Cavalry has arrived episode fifteen, will we drop in
that finale just in time from May the fourth be with you cannot wait,
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