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The Bad Batch 3x01/3x02 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Saltire le Hutt

Right from the off here, Kevin Kiner the series composer delivers an Andor-type score to this episode (I think they were making both shows around the same time) just to give another unsettling dystopian feel to this base at Tantiss. Everything is just so miserable, it really feels like the Empire is now fully established. Nala Se is looking out for Omega by not having her blood sample taken, and yes we all know where this research eventually leads to. Seeing Crosshair and those other poor clones just look so defeated, is sad to see. Omega is strong though despite her diminutive frame. Crosshair especially has been put through the ringer it seems, and is trying to tell Omega to just get out of there anyway she can, and forget about him. She won't do that though, as we see with her helping Batcher the lurka hound, that she doesn't give up trying to help others. She makes her Lula doll just to remind herself of home and the rest of Clone Force 99. We shift time and judging by the tally marks, its been over 5 months, and that Omega's hair is longer and we are still doing this same dull monotonic routine. It must grind down even many of the imperials working there; but it won't grind down Omega. Her way of learning is to copy the other clones, she has done that throughout the series with her brothers, however note here, her hair is tied the same way as Emerie's. The scene where Crosshair tells her "I belong in here" shows how he feels this is a penitence for his crimes under the Empire and that he is beyond redemption. He's had a lot of time to dwell on his actions and has in a way become institutionalised. He can be the most difficult character, but as Omega says, nobody deserves to be locked in here. Omega gets a suprise inspection - but its not a prison right!?! Emerie herself is as much a prisoner there as the clones and other things and beasties are, she just doesn't know it. So we hear from Hemlock and Nala Se that they take blood from "specimens" and mix it with clones and others, but so far the results show that the M-count gets diminished along the way. That isn't good enough for Palpatine for obvious reasons going forward. Hemlock going full villain now in threatening Crosshair if Omega steps out of line. He's a nasty piece of work but his VA Jimmi Simpson makes every word he says engaging nevertheless; he's a memorable baddie. However that end scene is subtly very beautiful. Emerie gives Omega the doll back, showing some empathy to her and Batcher cries outside, along with Omega's theme, showing how Omega's spirit warms all around her.

Saltire le Hutt

3x2 : From the off seeing Hunter and Wrecker especially, their armour looks to be pretty heavily damaged. They have been through the wars trying to turn the galaxy upside down looking for Omega. Speaking of Wrecker, I love how he is the one trying to keep Hunter from doing anything rash in the search by reminding him of what happened with Tech. He may be a big lovable lug, but there is times when he can see things clearer than the rest. He's not the same person he was in Clone Wars, he's matured. So Hemlock was stationed at this base, probably before Tantiss was built and then they destroyed it as they left. Typically they made something insidious in the shape of these slithervines just before they did so, to run rife on this world. They really just infest every place they inhabit, the imperials. Those clone kids must've seen a lot too though, having to be guinea pigs for Hemlock's research and then being left even by their fellow clones. I often wondered what happened to the clone kids, and now we know. They must've went to similar places like this, or been used as fodder elsewhere. Horrible. The leader of the group, Mox, is voiced by Daniel Logan, who played young Boba Fett in Attack Of The Clones. He's voiced clones elsewhere too over the years, but nice to bring him back here and give Dee Bradley Baker a bit of a break! :P Eugh, those slithervines turn into face-huggers, amongst others if you cut them! Nope!!!! After escaping that monster, they find that Tantiss is someplace in a sector, though that could still be amongst millions of systems, but it is a start. The kids can go back to Pabu and recover, so whilst this mission wasn't a total success, some good was done. The camera pan down to Lula at the end brings a lump to the throat.

Ryan

First of all, I have to note that all the official Star Wars social media accounts are calling tonight's Acolyte the "season" finale, which certainly suggests they've decided to make more. Not really a surprise with the numbers it's been doing, but nice to get. It's incredibly gutsy to open without most of the main crew, and Michelle Ang has a lot on her shoulders having to carry the whole episode with just a bit of help from Crosshair, after two seasons of being able to lean on Dee four or five different ways. We know the whole time that Hemlock isn't going to succeed here given that the Empire has barely gotten any more cloning advancement by the time of The Mandalorian, but it's still incredibly tense to see Omega in this situation. And I see you're just as much of a sucker as me for a show suddenly adding a dog. I just met her, and it anything happens to her I'll kill everyone here and then myself (I don't even know what that's from, I just keep hearing it). Just once, I'd like to see a story where people are warned not to touch something, and they never do. You know, just to see if the sun still comes up in the morning. And it's pretty amazing how the opening scene demonstrates how we can now instantly recognize Hunter and Wrecker in full armor just from how their movement is animated. I was a bit worried about you on this one since the vines might be too much like snakes, but you seemed to get through it okay.

Saltire le Hutt
>>143809998

I read a Leslye Headland interview on last week's episode that mentioned how its not specified in the show, what the vergence was on Brendock, only that it wasn't the children. To me this leaves open the possibility of them doing more Acolyte, and it seems Leslye and her team, working alongside Pablo Hidalgo, and of course Filoni, have threads of another story they could tell; and I hope to see more of this timeline as though Acolyte hasn't been faultless, I've really enjoyed it. I usually watch the episode when I get up now (I used to wait through the night for Mando when that was the only thing airing!), but with it being the "season" finale, I might just stay up and see how it concludes. If you've not seen the end of the show yet Ryan, I'll try to keep shtum for you, Jess and the others in my write-ups and replies for the next couple of months then! While we do know the overall story with the cloning, the way its all done here, and how powerful the Empire is becoming at this time, definitely makes for a really tense season. I hope you enjoy it, I think its a cracker!

Thomas Corp

Every one of us was still mourning Tech going into the season. Understandably so. Tech’s death is a most grievous wound to the soul. I feel your pain, Jess. We do start things off on a dark and grim note with this third and final season. The first episode is one of the more depressing pieces of Star Wars media. Naturally, I loved it. It was like a dark Pixar short film extended to twenty some minutes meets Heaven Sent, and it’s amazing. The whole thing shows that whilst her imprisonment may be wearing down on her cheerfulness, Omega’s spirit has lost none of its potency. I heard some fans were dismayed that the season opened with Omega still in Imperial custody; that she wasn’t rescued. I am puzzled by that response. Setting aside the fact that the show wouldn’t have such a rescue happen off screen, there’s just the incredulity that fans apparently thought she wouldn’t be in Imperial custody by the season’s open. I mean, she was kidnapped. Hemlock kidnapped her. He’s not just going to give her back. Defeats the entire object of the kidnapping. They didn’t just give Patty Hearst back, did they? No, Omega is Hemlock’s Patty Hearst. The primary difference being he’s not going to keep her in a closet and make her rob a bank. No, he’s going to hold on to her, and have her used as leverage to keep Nala Se in line. The other primary difference being that Omega sure as shit isn’t buying any of Hemlock’s bullshit philosophies. And indeed, she calls him out on some of them, which was great. Nala Se is certainly in Omega’s corner. To a lesser extent, Emerie is too, or at least she’s attempting to be kind as possible. It’s interesting with Emerie in that her position feels similar to Kino’s role in the prison: like a Kapo in a concentration camp. The scenes with Crosshair are VISCERALLY relatable, namely how Crosshair is lost in his deep depression and despair. Reminds me how you combine Tech and Crosshair, you’d probably get me. You clocked Crosshair’s hand shaking, made me note, “So, you caught that. Did you? You maintain a very sharp eye, Jess.” Crosshair shows perfect accuracy by hitting my heart with his pleas to Omega to focus solely on herself and not him. How he shows he’ll accept his death so long as she makes it out. I find his scenes are getting to me extra bad given I have not been having a good month, especially these past several days for the most part being quite the blur. I already knew that last Friday would be difficult, and it was of course. Didn’t expect how hectic things have been, leading me to feel like Crosshair does. Your reactions to Batcher were everything I knew they would be, especially when you compared her to Rocco. So great when Omega helps Batcher, particularly when she skillfully assessed how the droids were coming at her with sharp, pointy sticks, so she then expertly counters with the just drop a thousand-pound weight on them strategy in defense. I roll my eyes at that moment where Hemlock tries to sound like Darth Vader speaking about the question of will the Emperor be as understanding and forgiving as Hemlock professes that he is with Nala Se’s apparent lack of progress. Hemlock WISHES he was anywhere NEAR as iconic as Vader. Certainly, I’m disappointed that he seems to overlook through overconfidence or simply stupidity Nala Se’s comment on her loyalty to science. Science not the Empire. Resultingly, I do not share Hemlock’s optimistic appraisal of Nala Se’s protestations of loyalty. Hemlock demonstrates again what a heartless bastard he is. Emerie, by contrast, exhibits some decency. The big demonstration of that is after confiscating Omega’s makeshift doll under the rule of the place being that “Individuality is fine, so long as we all do it together.”, she returns said makeshift doll to Omega in an act of silent kindness. Loved your reaction to that and Batcher’s last scene of the episode. The second episode has a touch more action whilst still being heavy. It hurts how Echo is with Rex, Crosshair and Omega are prisoners, Tech is dead, leaving us with only Hunter and Wrecker as our batch, and it makes a grown man cry. They put in the work bringing in the Pyke who they dealt with in the Roland episode. Good to see him again, and to see his mom, Isa, voiced by Anjelica Huston. Finding that out made me go, “Really!? What, THE Anjelica Huston!? The Oscar winning actress; daughter of Oscar winner John Huston and granddaughter of Oscar winner Walter Huston!? Hot damn.” It is a sobering moment when Wrecker of all people is the one urging some restraint, showing how he’s grown up, and how he is still deeply hurting from Omega’s capture and Tech’s death. The planet they go to is a sight. Most terrifying, the Doll’s Eye, the vines that attack the batch and infest the planet. It’s not a true Doll’s Eye, of course. It’s a little hybrid of Hemlock’s own design that the younger clones call slither vines. It’s quite something. And the batch should take care to not let the vines grievously wound them. Once the poison gets into the bloodstream, they will start to see what can only be described as the most extraordinary display of blue objects. To say nothing of what they were connected to. It is a highlight to see the younger clones. The two voiced by Julian Dennison, and to illustrate how Mox is slightly older, we have Daniel Logan voicing Mox. I loved how Mox is reticent to leave the other clones behind, only going along with the idea when it’s pointed out that they may never get a better chance to get off the planet. But then when they hear their brothers in danger, they become the cavalry to save them. I hear you on how that one clone greatly appreciated seeing how loyal Hunter and Wrecker are. So, though it’s not much, Hunter and Wrecker do have something to go on. And your heartfelt reaction to that last scene was one of many moments in this that were most appreciated after the kind of day I had. All of it was beautiful, Jess, thank you.

Thomas Corp
>>143803135

Kevin Kiner did start out with a strong note in this one. It is good seeing Nala Se destroy the blood samples, and with good reason considering the work. Crosshair just gets you with him imploring Omega to forget about him and just save herself once she inevitably tries to escape. Omega, however, is made of stern stuff as demonstrated by her heartwarming scenes with Batcher. I read that it’s about half a year at the longest that Omega is there. She keeps count with the marks, similar to Rey doing the same thing on Jakku. That line where Crosshair says he belongs there: that’s a familiar feeling. You hit a real low point with depression, your brain really cannot conceive any possibilities of ever being deserving of kindness or second chances. You end up baffled and angry why anyone even bothers with you. It’s sort of why the Sith are as relatable as they are as they demonstrate how they are figures trapped in the fog of the dark who cannot escape. The heart goes out to them some, even if it’s not supposed to. The surprise inspection does fly in the face of the claim that it’s not a prison, meaning Omega needs a large poster of Rita Hayworth. A good scene where Hemlock and Nala Se discuss what I knew, or at least strongly suspected what they’ve been doing. The key is the high midichlorian count. (Again, fucking cowards with the “M-Count” bullshit.) The scene of Emerie returning the makeshift doll got my attention with her. A sweet scene, as was the last Batcher scene.

Thomas Corp
>>143803167

Hunter and Wrecker’s armor has seen better days. I remember you talked about how Wrecker can see things clearer than the rest. That’s shown well when he advises caution on the planet, clearly not wanting a repeat of Tech’s death. The vines are a good metaphor for the Dark Side, manifesting here as the Empire. It does seem like the clone kids were sent to be experimented on. Curious if they ever tried raising some of the younger clones to be stormtroopers. Lovely to get Daniel back again. The scene of them finding out Hemlock’s base is in a sector recalls the scene with Thrawn when Zeb sent the exploding droid back. It doesn’t narrow down too much, yet it still narrows down the scope and gives Hunter and Wrecker a spot to tighten their focus. I hear you on that shot of Lula.

Ryan
>>143859141

One bit that really gets me is Crosshair insisting that he'd leave Omega behind if the roles were reversed, when we know he brought a lot of trouble on himself just to get a message to the Batch to try to keep her out of this place. Much as I love Keisha Castle-Hughes and it's nice to see her able to move on from her disastrous role in Game of Thrones (and her previous weirdly brief Star Wars role silently attending Padme's funeral), it really feels weird that Emerie isn't voiced by Michelle Ang, like all the male clones have the same actor. The only thing I can figure is they worried it would give away the twist of her being a clone, which doesn't seem like a fair trade-off for being stuck with it now. I've got no idea what the blue objects quote is from, and Google is no help.