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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Pabu

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Pabu
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Since it doesn’t feel as if the squad is ready to hang up their blasters permanently, “Pabu” feels darkly foreboding. The episode’s title comes from the hidden colony of refugees Phee Genoa (Wanda Sykes) leads the Bad Batch to after a successful job. While the retreat offers a respite from recent events, and a young friend for Omega (Michelle Ang), it’s far from dull as the squad comes together to help save the locals from a natural disaster before deciding to stay and help the community rebuild (possibly staying just long enough for their troubles to follow them to Pabu?).

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The Imperial Scientist – The Convert

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  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 19: The Convert
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While there is a Mandalorian story that opens and closes the episode, the vast majority of “The Convert” takes place far, far away from our main characters and their adventures. As with Andor, the show turns its attention instead to Coruscant. In this case the storyline involves former Imperial soldiers and scientists granted amnesty being slowly reintegrated into the New Republic. Our main focus is Penn Pershing (Omid Abtahi), a character’s name I had to look up and still won’t remember, who was getting on all hunky dory with his new life, despite his less than prestigious new job, until another Imperial agent, now with the New Republic, started fucking with him.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Outpost

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Outpost
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“The Outpost” becomes the second episode of the season to focus on Crosshair (Dee Bradley Baker) rather than the Bad Batch as we catch up with the former member of the squad and his struggles working for the Empire which is increasingly uninterested in clone soldiers. Sent to an out-of-the-way Imperial depo, it doesn’t take long for Crosshairs to grow impatient with the racist Lieutenant Nolan (Crispin Freeman) who treats the clones as out-of-date equipment he’s stuck with using. Crosshairs manages to make a friend on his journey, but that will be short-lived given the suicide mission they are both sent on (and denied medical attention after making it back). The episode is far from subtle, but gets the general idea across, if a bit hamfistedly, while suggesting there may be a path of redemption for Crosshairs.

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The Mandalorian – The Mines of Mandalore

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  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore
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So, maybe don’t have your main bad-ass character be so inept he needs to be saved twice within a half-hour? In some schizophrenic narrative storytelling, we learn our Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu have left the Mandalorian moon of Kalevala without journeying to the planet as promised. Instead, Din picks up the side quest he quickly abandoned to go Mandalore in the first place. Looking for the supposedly important droid part on Tatooine doesn’t keep his interest all that long however, as he takes the first droid Peli Motto (Amy Sedaris) pushes on to him in a segment that’s completely out of place given the sequence of events of the season premiere and completely superfluous to events of this episode where the Mandalorian’s own scanners would easily have sufficed.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Metamorphosis

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Metamorphosis
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It’s always weird to watch any Star Wars property try their hand at horror which was, at the very most, a minimal part of the original movie trilogy in something like the Sarlaac Pit (which still had a comic slant). The concept provided one of weakest episodes of Star Wars Rebels in “The Mystery of Chopper Base” and doesn’t fair much better here when the squad chases a monster around a crashed ship and woods for most of “Metamorphosis.” The concept is also a bit baffling as apparently Emperor Palpatine wasn’t going to use cloning technology to bring him back from the dead (which he does in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) but to make giant energy-sucking monsters. Um… okay? Not sure what this is going, but the Imperial B-story does set the Empire back to looking for Omega (Michelle Ang),

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