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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It may prove slightly less filler as the episodes roll out. We now know Tech is an excellent pilot, whereas previously he was just a pilot. And of the course the last minute warning.

A lot of filler episodes are not 100% devoid of content/progress. But if your story advancement can be summed up in a couple lines before the credits roll, it mostly counts.

Are there average pilots in the Star Wars universe? It seems like you are either a top ace, or a dispersing cloud of debris. Not a lot of middle ground. Of course, the universe tends to be on the superlative side...

Well, if it’s combat pilots it seems to make sense you’re an ace or you’re a corpse following an engagement.

I don’t disagree this episode was filler, but as I think is unanimous, it was entertaining enough filler.

There are few things I hate as much as "you need the last 2 minutes of context for a later major story elements. Pretty much why I haven't loved the Steven Moffat era of Dr Who.

The guest voice actors rather took me out of this one. Bit too much 'streets of NYC' for a galaxy far, far away.

The 'calculating human' 'careless droid' reversal was amusing, but a bit too on the nose. I'm not sure what it said about these races that half the pilots were protocol and battle droids, though. That's a weird bit of setting confusion.

Overall it was fine, but fell really short of episode 3. The general competence of everyone there (including normal troopers) was rather refreshing, even if the trick shots went over the top. Not sure about Cody being the moral mouthpiece for that episode. Having failed to kill his Jedi back during Order 66 rather undercut the message a bit.

 LunarSol wrote:
There are few things I hate as much as "you need the last 2 minutes of context for a later major story elements. Pretty much why I haven't loved the Steven Moffat era of Dr Who.

What's this in reference too? If its Cid, they've been hammering that button hard since season one, and put flashing signs on it this season.

More Matt Smith's run than anything. Lot of so so episodes that end with some big twist that's part of the ongoing story. Plenty of excellent episodes too, but I hate how many episodes are propped up by random melting characters or something at the end.

Bit slow on this one.

But, it seems the first four episodes have been reminding us of each Clones’ special skills?

I'd liked Hudson doing the voice of that big thing. It was nice to have creatures from the Prequel, Original and *visibly shudders* Sequel trilogies all in a single place.

And nothing about it was surprising (other than the detachable weapons pod on the speeder). I liked that it showed another type of racing in SW - not everything can be pod-racing, after all - and how this one allows weapons and other special equipment (claws, saws, etc.), and it's not cheating but it is completely allowed.

I also liked that Tech got there, immediately thought "This seems way less complicated than everyone's making it out to be..." and then math'd his way to victory. It was a great look into his character beyond mono-tone explanations. And the silent look he gave the droid as he was rebuilding him was fantastic.

 Azreal13 wrote:
We just ignoring it was a rehash of a chunk of Phantom Menace?

If it'd been Omega who suddenly has to pilot the craft, then yes.

Thankfully that didn't happen.

They need to make Omega a suit of armor.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Fun episode of Bad Batch this week, if a bit By The Numbers, with no surprises up its sleeve.

Plenty enjoyable like, and I’m interested to see if the last minute warning bears any fruit later on.

It was a nice trailer for an upcoming video game.

 AduroT wrote:
They need to make Omega a suit of armor.

Either she's a traditional Star Wars protagonist and won't wear any (and it wouldn't help anyway), or they're waiting until she intersects with Mandalorians and finds her true destiny.

She's not a modern Star Wars protagonist though. She's not instantly great at everything without needing any training or study, and she has actual struggles, setbacks and flaws.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
She's not a modern Star Wars protagonist though. She's not instantly great at everything without needing any training or study, and she has actual struggles, setbacks and flaws.

That's... a random statement that seems connected to nothing. When I said 'traditional star wars protagonist,' I was thinking of Han and Leia and their complete lack of armor (and the complete uselessness of armor when facing teddy bears with sticks).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
She's not a modern Star Wars protagonist though. She's not instantly great at everything without needing any training or study, and she has actual struggles, setbacks and flaws.

You mean besides her complete and utter mastery of strategy so that she can trump every single person who challenges her in circle hologram chess? And that this mastery of strategy manifests in other situations where she comes up with a plan that always works out when the other characters listen to her?

Yeah. Not instantly great at everything at all.

I mean, 'good at some things' and 'good at everything' aren't the same thing.

How many episodes ago was it that she had to be rescued from a falling shipping container due to her own poor judgement?

Tallneck!

As a random aside, it low key bugs me they’ve left Echo with a stump arm this whole time. Like sure the droid key thing is occasionally useful, but you’d think they’d get him a robocop prosthetic with a retractable spike.

Well, I certainly didn't see this particular crossover coming ^^

 Albertorius wrote:
Well, I certainly didn't see this particular crossover coming ^^

 Geifer wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Well, I certainly didn't see this particular crossover coming ^^

Spoiler:

Neon Genesis Indiana Omega and the Horsey of Doom?

Oh man! Another treasure hunt. I'm sure this time they won't end up with nothi... oh who am I kidding? Of course they'll end up with nothing.

Nice Horizon Zero Dawn crossover though.

Rather enjoyed that one. The art/animation was solid and a decent one and done adventure.

Anyone familiar with Old Republic/Old EU able to suggest what the thing actually was? I feel like it was intended as a throwback tickle of the pickle.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The art/animation was solid and a decent one and done adventure.

Was it? I couldn't tell because someone turned all the lights off.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Oh man! Another treasure hunt. I'm sure this time they won't end up with nothi... oh who am I kidding? Of course they'll end up with nothing.

A fun episode, though.

 insaniak wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Oh man! Another treasure hunt. I'm sure this time they won't end up with nothi... oh who am I kidding? Of course they'll end up with nothing.

Spoiler:

Yeah, not unexpected that they came out of it with nothing, but a little puzzling given that there was nothing stopping them taking the thing once the robot laser giraffe was destroyed...

A fun episode, though.

Ah, so it did. Missed that.

Another filler episode this week, but personally I liked this one a lot more than last week's. Not that last week's was terrible or anything.

I assumed they didn't want to name the Rakata from KotoR for some reason, but that was the vibe I got (as well as an undeveloped Skara Brae reference)

Whole thing felt like a video game sequence puzzle, with the Pirate Queen being entirely genre savvy and the older clones having none of it. (Some amusing Indiana Jones visual references snuck in, like Omega's posture while Phee was removing the 'stone').

Then it got pointlessly silly

Also some Indiana Jones inspired music too.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also some Indiana Jones inspired music too.

Oh, almost forgot the music. It was straight up weird at times. Moving puzzle pieces and the music swelled dark and triumphantly like Vader himself was going to step out of the shadows. It was a really odd mismatch at times. I tend to tune music out a lot when watching shows, but that made me focus in expectantly, because the score said something major and momentous was happening. Not a blacklight.

Bad Batch S2 E6

So…guess we’re not getting a season arc this time around? Because again whilst this is a decent enough story, it’s still feeling distinctly filler.

Also some…dead scenes.



They need to be getting their act together on this, as it’s seriously feeling like the writers didn’t plan on a second season, and don’t know what to do with the characters next.

I note that the Jedi managed to disarm someone with a lightsabre, then got into a 1-on-1 fight with a Trandoshan, disarmed the trando, and then something else killed the Trando. At least the Bad Batch found the 'kill' setting on their guns finally.