Star Wars: The Bad Batch

The robot episode stacks up about the same as the other Clone Wars robot episodes, and I should have known to just skip it entirely. Instead I got about half way through before stopping and it made me lose interest for a bit.

I picked it back up today with the treasure hunting episode and it was mediocre, but watchable, for the most part. An adventure of the week format. Modern politics, that Kathleen Kennedy help push, tainted it a bit, but that's not the episodes fault. In another timeline I would have enjoyed it more.

The last episode (Tribe) was good, with a neat tie in with more Clone Wars stuff.

yeah binged through the dropped episodes over the last few days and really enjoyed it. Omega is pretty low on the "what a fucking annoying kid character", although the accent does not help at all.

It does all feel slightly side story and not important, so I don't think its really a must watch show like Andor or Rebels but its good extra stuff. Does make you wonder if Gungi will be in the next Jedi Fallen Order game or why he wasn't in the last one lol

Double episode tonight in a couple hours

It looks like they are using their newer tools to make everything but the character models for the series. The intro of them flying down into the planet really made me wish they would just commit 100% into using the updated software that they used for Tails of the Jedi.

Also, the last 4 episodes have been good and the show is back on track. Omega wasn't obnoxious in this last one. I keep reminding myself that Filoni's writers room is probably trying to plot the same path for Omega as he did with Asoka: start off annoying and character build to be likable over the course of 3 or 4 seasons.

I really love how Filoni is doing his best to backfill so much lore about the prequels and fill out the world, it really is pretty fascinating. Just finished the episode with the Stormtrooper senate bill and that was amazing stuff.

Only minor thing is I wish they'd explain why the Bad Batch don't just steal some clone trooper outfits and pretend to be regular troopers, I know the big one wouldn't fit but its gotta be a better way than fighting hundreds of people. When "you know who" came up in the Senate, just *chefs kiss* Coulda spent a little more time on making a bit more complicated double cross plot there though.

I just looked and there are a total of SIXTEEN episodes of Bad Batch season 2, wow! They really went all out, awesome. I totally bet grown up Omega shows up in Ahsoka sometime down the line.

Excellent episode, callback to a Clone Wars plot point as well as the first season.

For some reason I thought this week was the finale (probably since Mando is now back). This was a nice call back to existing plot lines. I am getting tired of the 'adventure of the week' format. I don't mind the concept but the adventures in question have been 'meh'

Harshaw said:

Great episode. Echo leaving looks like it is telegraphing a Crosshair redemption arc. Although, it looks like something more diabolical may be happening to him.

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It always shocked me that Crosshair put up with being called by his CT number and the imperial disrespect as long as he did, but yeah, it looks like what would have potentially been a redemption arc is gonna be something far darker with him ending up in the hands of the cloners.

The Crosshair bottle episodes have been fantastic. The slow realization that no matter how good a soldier he is, he is destined to be thrown on the heap and wasted on meaningless missions