Star Wars: The Bad Batch

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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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Crossing / Retrieval

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The two-part story in “The Crossing” and “Retrieval” focuses on the Bad Batch’s first missing without Echo in which the squad looks for Impsium in a mine on a remote planet, getting their ship stolen, becoming temporarily trapped in a mine, and later having to infiltrate and liberate their ship from a Dickensian group working a larger mine for a local tyrant. In terms of larger arcs, the only one notable is Omega‘s (Michelle Ang) abandonment issues, first in Echo’s leaving (and the squad’s minimal reaction) and then to the ship being stolen as well. While a perfectly fine mini-adventure for the group, I don’t know that this really needed to be two episodes.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Truth and Consequences

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“Truth and Consequences” directly follows up the events of “The Clone Conspiracy” by bringing the Bad Batch to Coruscant in search of proof of the Empire’s attack on Kamino. We get a mix of stealth and action with the group sneaking aboard a Star Destroyer undergoing retrofit in order to get proof for Senator Riyo Chuchi (Jennifer Hale) to present to the Galactic Senate before the mission goes sideways and the group has to shoot their way out.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Clone Conspiracy

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Not featuring a single regular character of the series, and set on Coruscant rather than in deep space, “The Clone Conspiracy” is an anomaly for the series in more ways than one. It also seems to answer the longest running question of the series by reintroducing the character of Senator Riyo Chuchi (Jennifer Hale) who is far to similar to Omega to not make note of, although why someone may have wanted a more human clone of the Senator is still unclear. In a storyline that demands better treatment of veterans, Riyo fights for the rights of decommissioned Clones as the Empire attempts to push through legislation of a new conscripted military force.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Tribe

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In an episode that is sure to make fans of the defunct Star Wars Expanded Universe think back fondly of Lowbacca, “Tribe” brings the Bad Batch into contact with young Wookiee Jedi Gungi (first introduced back in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) who they return home to Kashyyk where they help the locals fight off Trandoshan slavers. Another standalone episode, and certainly a step-up from “Entombed,” we get some good action here, some fun jungle creatures (and implied gruesome end for our baddies), an interesting possibility of a recurring character that you don’t necessarily need a voice actor for, and get to play on the Clones’ history with the Jedi as well.

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