Rebellion's built on hope. Welcome to another episode of Raider Rebellion Star Wars. I'm your host, Avi Todirana. Thank you for joining us on another Star Wars Saturday.
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But we're here today to talk about episode 14 on the bad batch. And we'll get to it in a minute. Our friend, Dale, is here at Skywalker Academy. He's watching multiple live streams, predicted next week, episode.
That's what we're doing here. And our friend Brennan, as always. Hello, hello there, Brennan. And we'll be with Brennan next week.
We'll finally sit back down on his show, on his show, page turners that were not. That was Star Wars. And then when he released his data a couple days later, make sure to listen to it. That was sometimes when we get to chat with Brennan.
So make sure to check that out next week. But for today, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead and start. It's not a lot going on Star Wars.
Why is everything very bad batch centered? I know a new kind of clip came out for the Empire with Grievous. I haven't watched this. I just want to go fresh to it.
And a quick like 30 seconds spot for Star Wars Korea. I think posted it about the acolyte. One or two new images showed up and a model kind of popped up looking very, a few minutes like, very pretty cool. So can't wait to get to that.
When, excuse me. When the acolyte drops in a couple of weeks or a couple of months actually. But right now we're going straight to the bad batch. So let's go to Star Wars on TV.
Star Wars on TV. All right. Let me get some water first before we start. A little time is where it's just myself.
I forget to drink water. I don't have a lot of time to it. When Otis here, he's spouting all his nonsense. They all stop.
They can drink. They don't pay attention to what he's saying. But right now by myself, I just got to keep talking. I got to get a couple of minutes.
I drink my water. Of course. We always listen to Otis. We're very inside.
All right. So episode 14 of the bad batch is in three flash strike. The penultimate episode before the finale next week. We keep saying it here every week.
It's just, maybe not bad on there. Every episode is just stop not just A plus. Nobody goes down. This was another great episode.
It continued right from what we left last week. We cannot talk here that we thought as soon as they got into 10 days, they'll have to separate from that transporter, which they were attached to, and make their way to the base. That's basically what we saw. Like it's been the last couple of weeks.
We got what the bad batch is doing, trying to get closer to 10 days and to Omega. And then Omega, of course, in the vault with the other four sensitive case, trying to figure a way to get out of there and escape. But they remind us very quickly that poor Echo is still stuck inside that Imperial Transpoic. Echo, I want to applaud you.
Thank you for doing what I said last week. I'm still in a stormtrooper uniform, and continuing on this great Star Wars tradition of people infiltrating Imperial bases or ships and quickly stealing a stormtrooper armor. So here we go. You stole one and stole the arm of the poor droid that you shot.
Great committee moment, of course. But it helps because I mentioned last week he's working around that space station missing an arm and no one said anything. Here he went, got himself a droid arm, put it on, no one's a wiser until the end went. Emory car system unplugging his hand from that terminal.
But we'll get to that in a minute. So like I mentioned, as soon as they disconnect from that transport, they are in gate. Sorry, before that, one of the clone commandos, they all sampled, hey, they saw clone force 99 in the, in the space station. And that's it.
San de lauren, be ready as soon as that transport comes in. I wanted to check from top to bottom. And as soon as they disengage from the ship, some other storage of just engagement. And we got a great firefight of the disguise above Mount Tantis.
Freaking hunter, just a great move throwing that ship backwards to destroy some of the other shuttles. And we get to ramp up, get in, push around by everyone, which I mean, ramp up has been a standout. It's been a high point this last three episodes bringing that little committed note and committed beats. That's great timing.
The writers are gonna give it up for the writers and the voice actors. Rampo is just being killing it. If you want, this is a very serious show especially this past few episodes are very serious. But I love they still take the time to do those comedic beats again.
It's geared to our younger crowds. We gotta keep them engaged in that sense. And also for guys like us, our friends like us, I should say that love also the weird stupid stuff in Star Wars. And everything with Rampo is just some stupid weird, great funny moments.
Even when you get a little bit of a serious conversation between him and Crosshair. When they're talking about who's betraying who and why you help after you, you are good soldiers from the audience. Like, yeah, I've changed. Oh, well, we'll see by the end or something.
So it's still kind of those little notch there. There's still some, the confusion, but people are still not 100% sure where Crosshair is gonna fall. Which again, I think there's this kind of pepper in this in little by little because it's gonna come into play by that finale. But again, I just love Rampo.
He gets pushed around when they get down to that jungle. Everyone just pushing like keep moving. They just keep moving. But everyone's been talking.
I haven't had it on my nose since when I watched this. When they rappelled down, just screaming like a little girl. So we told the little girls out there that get, now it's gonna be just screaming like Rampo. But I love that again.
He's an imperial officer. He has no business being in the middle of an invasion on an incursion, I should say. So of course that's how he's going to react to this ex-group in terribly fun, kind of that fish out of water. And then very funny scene when Crosshair and wrecker team up again with Hunter.
Oh, the Rampo make it, unfortunately. Yes, so again, great delivery. They know they need them, but they really don't care if we survive or not. And then again, that's when he keeps getting pushed back and forth.
But then we cut to inside Mantentis of the alongside blaring. They're gonna stop having gone to the kids to take the blood samples. What's going on? And my dad drops a great line.
Oh, they found me. Who? My brothers. If this was the movie theater, everyone would be up on the changes screaming and clapping.
Yeah, your brothers found you. So I love that. It'll be the same week after week after week. This is Omega's show.
Her growth from this little clone that they made in season one. To now she kind of building her own bad batch, right? With those kids, she's the leader now. She'll find out what each one of her is good as she already had.
Then, hey, I gotta go see what's going on. I'm gonna get into this panel. Guys just call it for me. And they're all making up little stories and feel sick.
I'm still hungry. I need this. I need that. Just to keep the other scientist kind of office to her trail.
And just keep bringing up on Mia as she still has this not just child like what is very innocent. And then she's still now this she's now this leader that can take charge any moment. And then she's just seeing it working with trusser just escaping that first time and now taking this or I will just call him force kids under her wing. And hey, I got a plan.
And that's of course at the end when she finds a civil beast. I think I got a plan. You guys are gonna help me. We're gonna get out of here.
I can just build in her own little bad batch group to get out and so brothers. I come in to rescue her. So very fun scene outside in the jungle. So tennis we know that we're creatures.
Where's that you're when you need her. It had been a couple of weeks since we got a month of the week. We got in like two or three straight episodes. And then here we get this weird owl space bear just attacking there.
And ramparts about to just see if he just bolts and just goes running. And this is after stone troopers are looking for them. Kind of funny that they say no don't shoot because the blaster noise is gonna alert the stone troopers. But this creature is just screaming at top of its lungs just making noise bad in all the bad batching to every tree.
Everything's breaking and that's on troopers one here. They won't blast or shut. But anyway, they find out because ramparts just kept running and he ran into one of the imperial troopers they found them. And they just help breaks loose.
On this end, like I mentioned, echo, just the stone trooper or more just the hand from the drawer. He's able to plug into the terminal see how to get out of the ship and into Montantes. But of course he gets interrupted, I should say, by a little bit ahead but we'll finish with echo. And we're calling notices, sees him unplugging because his hand gets stuck.
And he's, oh, your echo, Megan, I mentioned you stuck a lot about you. Oh, I'm required we thought also about you. How can you be doing this? Oh, she's with the other, the other children.
There are more children here. So he's like, again, why are you working this place where they're testing and keeping children sequester? I was only doing my job with that. That's some of the worst things that you hear out there.
I was just doing my job. Why don't you stand up and say something? I was only doing my job. And I post this is one of these people that want something bad.
I don't know. I just work here. That's her. And that's even though I know she'll be redeemed and she'll help at the end.
She'll help last next week. Yeah, you're in a car. I don't discount them. You've had every chance to do something and to now play dumb.
I didn't know how bad things were. No, you don't get a pass in my book. But we'll see. Oh, I can make sure echo went up that tube to infiltrate the ship.
And then out that tube, we got put out the tube just to get into Mount Tantis and out the ship. I'll be transported so they didn't see him. So yeah, we're just being sucked in and out of that droid tube again. So for Omega, we saw her going up the hatch of that little wall panel just following all the samples you went in and out, trying to figure it out.
And she comes into this big tank. Who's there? The Silobese. He was captured back in season one or season two.
And it was the last time that it's mentioned that the Silobese was taken to Mount Tantis. And we finally see it. I know a lot of people have been waiting for the Silobese to wreck shop. This is one thing that animation does constantly.
And some people sometimes started throwing the flotholes and things like that notion. Oh, where's the Silobese? We haven't heard about the Silobese in the whole season. They just took the Silobese for no reason.
Now here it is. We just waited till the end. Here's the Silobese and of course it's going to play a big part towards the finale. And we'll talk more about that at the end as we do some of our speculations for last week, next week's episode.
But then she makes it back as the poor kids are trying to figure out how to install the scientists. But yeah, I just tell them, hey, I found something, I got a plan and I'm going to make your help to get out of here. So next week, next week is going to be a good one for Omega. So she found something big.
I should say I found something big and I have a plan. So again, it was a short, not short, it was a regular episode action packed. Not a lot to kind of tie set. We're not going to be here for if I mean us talking about that episode.
But it's a great setup for the finale. It's the bad batch. You make it to Tantis. We're confronted.
Everyone knows that they're there, but they're able to get away. Now, I think actually I think that's a ton too personal. Only I watched them once. I forgot about the end and how that poor cannot play that.
I think they get, I can remember. I'm going to leave it there if you're on the charges. How did it end for the bad batch? But Rapper's there just being fun as hell just yelling like a crazy person.
Omega has her plan ready. Echomedo made it inside the base, which is an already connected to the systems, which is something that we discussed last week. How are they? If Pus the cavalry is coming.
How is Rex going to get all this stuff? Will it be Wolf that tells Rex how to implement Tantis? But now that Echor is there, he has connected to the system. I'm sure he will be able to then relay some coordinates to Rex and some of the other clones outside of Montana's.
So we'll see how that plays out next week. Handy C-Lobiz. Alright, so let's talk about next week because everything's narrows us. Let's talk about next week.
What's going to happen? Crosshair. I love Crosshair. I think there's something, I don't know, his hand is going to get another shot to use that hand.
Point in 10 with the shot. Let's talk about the finale. So let's talk about the C-Lobiz first. Finally, got the C-Lobiz back.
A lot of people think I want, I should say, that C-Lobiz to be the one to kill Rampart. I don't think it's going to go that route. I think the C-Lobiz is pretty obvious. It's going to wreck Shop.
It's going to destroy the Tantis. At least the scientific base that they have. It's going to be destroyed by the C-Lobiz. I'm guessing they might have some other creatures there that get released by all the chaos and they're just going to destroy everything.
Maybe they use it to kill Rampart, but I doubt it. One thing I saw someone post either yet, I think yesterday, online, was in that Ventress epic, so where she connects with this big aquatic creature. Can I just put her hand on its big and calm it down and let the creature release her? Or maybe I'm going to use that same technique to connect with the C-Lobiz and it can't help their escape, which is, again, it connects the people that do all these Star Wars series.
They plant seeds, then they'll grow later by the end of the season. I think with this being the last season, it just works great. Or maybe I saw how Ventress connects to this creature. She might not be extremely sensitive, but she might be able to learn that lesson.
And now she will apply it to connect with the C-Lobiz to help them escape. I think that's probably a great idea by this fan. I think it makes sense. I need to connect everything I would learn throughout the season.
I think it'll be a cool scene. Again, Rampart, I think, who made another fate. We'll talk about that. You know where I fall.
The kids using the force, I think, will finally see those kids use their force just to push on people out of the way. Again, it might be Omega to let go and relax, they can breath, let go and just use your feelings and push everything out of the way. I think we're going to see that. Emory Card, this is where you think she will be redeemed.
Probably should have to do something to that other science technician that's there. I forgot her name. She got a weird kind of keyboard name. I think she'll be the one to help them escape.
He'll help that kid escape, at least the force kits. And then she'll take them to a shuttle or something and then Omega's going to head back to go find the bad batch. She'll go help release the other clones. They'll give her that choice.
Hey, we're here. We got a ship. We got a shuttle. Let's just leave.
And she'll be like, you guys leave. I still got stuff to do. And she'll go back to help the bad batch. Help the other clones.
I think that's maybe how it plays with Emory Card helping those force sensitivity kids get out of tantis. And the big thing, CX2, we keep talking who's this special clone, this operative. Is it? I got one episode left for this to be tech.
I mentioned it last week, our friend, Bug, which I'm happy birthday Bug. Last year, what I hope you're feeling well. That might be too late for a tech reveal. I kind of agree, but still holding out all of us 1% that is there, just in case he shows up.
I can say yes, I never lost hope. Again, I won't be mad if it doesn't happen. But I think we'll have CX2, those commandos clones or commando troopers. And then we know that all their CX clones, all the operatives, because about two episodes ago, Ram Parthi saying, oh, the other operatives are not ready.
CX2, I need you to go find a way. That's when we got that episode on PABOOP. I think we're going to see more of them. And that's when we get the reveal of who CX2 is.
Is it a clone of Crosshair? And then we get that confrontation of, can we really trust Crosshair or not? Maybe we have CX2 versus Crosshair Round 2, and again, his trigger finger. Or Shaky will see if that comes into play.
But I think obviously, if it's going to be revealed, it's going to be revealed next week. But I think those CX2, the other operatives on the commando, will obviously engage the bad patch, I don't think. You can have Ram Parthi there, but Ram Parthi is more the scientific side, and trying to protect Necromancer and all the puppetein clones, which, oh, hopefully we'll see them. I want to see those people puppeteins or people's nook in the little jar, so I want to see them.
And then all the cavalry arrives, I'm guessing they get caught. And then the cavalry arrives, who's the cavalry? Last week I got him. Maybe the cavalry is just Rec or Crosshair and Echo, but Echo is on his end doing something.
I think he'll be the one to reach out to, let's say Rec and Wolf or who else, I don't know who else he might reach out to, at least Rec. And then the cavalry arrives, everyone comes to the aid, and then we get what we've been wanting, I guess, since the show began, but we've really been talking about it this season, is this clone rebellion, right? How are they going to all those clones escape from Tantis? When all the bunch of clones get tested every week, every day, then it's someone, again, it can be Echo.
Echo can have that, ah, for my name, but this endo moment, right, in a five moment, getting to the communication system, and then just blaring out this message of, hey, we're all together, we're all clone brothers, we're going to rise up and get out of here. And then Echo has that moment, I guess, everyone kind of riled up, and then we get Recs with everyone else coming in to help, and we had a big battle. So that'll be pretty cool to see, pretty great. So any deaths, what do you guys think?
I keep asking, do you think any of the bad batch are going to die? Are there Hunter, Crosshair, Rec or Echo? We got four left, not counting. Tech, my boy, Omega, she's safe, Omega, nothing will happen to Omega, and she gets some cuts and bruises, she's not dying, nothing bad is going to happen to me.
I mean, nothing bad to that extent. I keep saying, I think Hunter and Crosshair are the ones more likely to give us that skill. So if someone's going to be in the precipice of dying, I think it's Crosshair, or Hunter, Hunter of course, has been Omega's pseudo father since that first season. And we see a lot of this back half of the season, three also have concerns about her and everything is going to get her back.
So if someone's going to be in that kind of easy or won't he die, I think Hunter is the first one to jump up. The rankings follow up close by Crosshair because he's had that big arc since the end of last season. We saw all the time he spent with Omega at the beginning of this season, he's carrying a lot of baggage, not just for everything he did leading up to this season, but then just escaping, it's not really being open about what was being done there, how to get back. We keep it all you, you tell us where you could talk to Rapper to get here, why didn't you tell us when he was going to go?
Oh, I really didn't plan on coming back. Records say, hey, it's a lot easier breaking in that breaking out. Yeah, really didn't want to do any of those. So I think he's the second one really close to Hunter.
That's going through this whole arc that might end in that, but if I have to pull all my chips into if it's take a life or will any of the other bad batch die or stay alive, I'm pushing everything to, I think the rest of the batch is going to be safe. I really don't think that anyone is dying by the end of this season, but they're on the next episode I guess, which is the end of the series. I know with every post that the creators make, people are going nuts and they assume the worst. They say I was going to be a bittersweet ending, again, it's the end of the series, of course it's going to be bittersweet.
So I don't think that this means that someone's going to die. Maybe, again, I don't think so. I really hope not. These people deserve to live happily ever after.
I don't need another show with Omega, I think I mentioned it next week. Let them rest. Omega's been in this war, she's still like 13 years old, she's a very young child. She doesn't need to keep fighting fighting.
Oh, let her go to Ventress and study Pat, she doesn't need to do that. She can just be a child, be a kid, your papal, have fun with the mayor's daughter, I don't know her name, just be kids. Even 5 or 6 years when I bring her back and now she's old enough to go do something, that's fine. Let the bad batch, Omega, fine batch, worst batch, right?
Someone's got to be taking care of batch, we're going to get that reunion, just let them be safe. That's why I really want all of them. So I think everyone's right. I really want them.
Hemlog and Project Necromancer's fate. We've been saying this since like week 3, the Project Necromancer is going to suffer a bit below, Hemper's not going to be happy, probably he makes it out of tantis, and then when he, the emperor reaches out, sorry dude, you kill all my pickle clones, now you're dead. So again, I think that Vader makes sense to me. If it's the emperor, it'll be extremely fun.
I think Vader makes more sense, just being baited to see how evil he is right now. I think that's how Hemlog makes its face, and maybe we'll get a shot at the seal base destroying all the laughs of vault and can't remember where the Perinecom answer is held. We'll actually throw everything in there and we get a couple of shots of those pickled charges rolling down the hill, then destroy all the creatures eating Papa. Then we're going super pappa-ting creatures now, that's too much.
I think that's how Hemlog can make this time. I don't think Omega will obviously not kill him. It's also one post in that Omega's going to be riding the seal base like well, if it's riding the rank court, it'll be extremely great, Star Wars visual. I don't think it should be there to kill.
To add the seal base, Hemlog. If someone from the bad batch is going to kill him, it's going to be Crosshair. Again, I don't think that kind of plays with what's going on. I think Cross is more of an emotional state with his brothers and the other clones, that's how that's going to play out.
I don't know what's going to happen with Rampart. That's a big one. Rampart's there, I don't think he's dying. Maybe if Crosshair kills someone, it'll be Rampart.
But with every screen time that we're getting with Rampart and how funny he's been, this comedic element to the show, I don't think he's going to die. At least not by one of the bad batch. I don't think any of them is really going to shoot their Rampart. Or let's say really be traced them at some point, but I don't see them doing that.
At this point in their career, I don't see them doing that. Just give me a bader. Give me a bader, kill him. Hemlog at the end, Rampart just, he's done with his crap.
Can I go to Pappa with you guys? No, but go do something else. Just leave your life somewhere else. So yeah guys, let me know either now in the chat, down in the comments, on Twitter, whatever.
Just let me know some of your speculations for the finale. What would you like to see? Who's going to make it out alive? All of them make it.
Will some of them not? Do you think the kids are using the force at any point to escape? Who's going to be Rampart's fate? Is it going to be killed by someone there on Tantis already?
Will it be the emperor? Will it be Vader? I mean Quizitor comes in and kills him. We get all Quizy, the grand Inquisitor, which I don't know where everything stands at this point in terms of time.
I'm not working from him. But yeah, let me know. I'll say it again next week. I'll say it through social media.
I can't believe how far this show has gone in taking me on this ride, where I really wasn't the biggest fan of it. And now I'm left in. And I'm really invested in all the characters. I'm going to be emotionally sore by the end of next week.
Hopefully no one can miss that end. But yeah, I've been extremely surprised with this season. It's been on point since the beginning. Maybe miss some of the one of episodes, like that racing episode last season.
I'm really excited to get it off, even though we didn't push nothing with the story. I really enjoyed that one. We didn't get a lot of those this time. But that's fine.
When you're 15 episodes, which is one less than the previous two seasons, and you got a rafting service a lot to wrap up, so they were very focused on what they were trying to do this year. I think they nailed it. The week after week was on point. Pushing the story forward.
Pushing the character forward. And for me, everything worked. So I'm very, very sad that this is ending. But I'm not mad.
I know a lot of people are already posting. We know that they've got the resistance fate. They told them to wrap up early. It wasn't supposed to be the three seasons.
They stand, not wanting things to end. But it's been a great ride at some point in the end. And again, we'll see how the finale goes wrapping everything up and setting the future. I think it's a good time if it ends.
It definitely hits. We said a couple of weeks ago, Star Wars, Star Wars animation, those how to do finales. I'm not worried. And we come out of this saying they should have done another season.
They need another four or five episodes to wrap everything up. I hope that we don't get that. I don't think that we will. No people, what's going to be the runtime is going to be 23 minutes.
It's going to be the whole episode of 44 minutes. It's going to be an hour. 35 minutes, what I'm envisioning will be a little bit longer. Some of the others, I don't think, will go past 40 minutes.
It's obviously 1-B-16. I'll be surprised if it's in the 25-27 race. I'll be surprised. I'll probably over half an hour.
So between 35 and 40 minutes. I think you can do a lot. This show has shown how much you can get in a 22-minute episode. So I don't know the 10 or 15 for the finale.
I think they can wrap all of those. It depends on what your expectations are and what are they going to wrap up. Right now it's rescuing Omega, rescuing the rest of the clones at those skits, and figuring out what happens with probably the necromancer. I think those are the big three.
And then if the last two or three minutes are demoing, then maybe someone arrives at the end. So when you think, oh, then disconnects with something that happens in the future, then it's fine. So again, all the thrusting the world for that creative group. So yeah, next week, the end of the Bat and Batch.
I can believe we're saying that. Bat Batch, we started. You guys know this better than I am. It's on Finnish Clone Wars arc.
And then they finally were able to do it with Season 7 on the Clone Wars when it comes back. Throw that back door pilot if you want through the Bat Batch show. And then we got three great seasons. So two good ones for me and that third great one.
So I can ask for more. Just a great finale. So that's it for the Bat Batch. And next week, we'll be talking a lot about it.
All right, so to wrap the day up, I think I mentioned it last week. I've been reading Great Squadron X-Wing by Aaron Altstone. As far as that, Essential Legends Collection audiobook that they've been releasing this past few years and then also doing the audiobooks. Shout out and big thanks to Penguin Random House Audio for sending me some review copies.
I haven't got into this book because I got this around the same time that I got the Living Force. And the Living Force obviously took precedence. And then I finally sat down to listen to Raid Squadron by Aaron Altstone. Again, Mark Thompson does all the voice over.
And even though I had some issues with previous Legends audiobooks, I'm extremely surprised how much I enjoyed this book. I was a great read from beginning to end or a great listen. Just out of the way as always, the music is great. Especially effects, the sound effects, everything works.
It's a little bit funny when you have the heroes doing something heroic. And the music that is playing is the straight federation music, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then. It's kind of weird, but it works because there's a great soundtrack. But it's a simple story, but with great characters.
And that's what I've been missing by some of the audiobooks. You know, drawn out. They're so long and I haven't really connected with the characters. This one now.
And that's like 12 characters here. Of course, there's some main ones, but they were great. So we got mostly, you saw it there in the Dico. We have West Jans.
I mean, West Antilles is kind of the main one that will know West Jans on this there. We had brief appearances by Hobie Han Solo, Princess Leia, Admiral Ackbar placed a role, let's say. It's not the one in the, I might be the one in the cover. There's another Mon Calamari that is niece, I think it is.
But those two, what we know is this new Republic era, they're Imperial remnants out there. There's Warlords all crossing chaos everywhere. Now that the new Republic is trying to rebuild. So all these Imperial remnants and these Warlords that still have some Thai fighters and one of those Imperial Star Destroyer and all these Imperial Crusers trying to carve their way in.
So which goes to Admiral Ackbar to say, hey, I need a new squadron out there. It's different to Rogue Squadron, which was this X-Wing pilot that also needed to be kind of command those in case there's some groundwork. I need to inverse that. So we get some commandos that can do the groundwork.
We get snipers. We get slicers. We got all these other people. They can also fly an X-Wing in case we need to high tail it out of there.
But it's formed out from troublemakers, rejects, crew-ups, people that are the last line. They don't make it here. Some of them are in jail. I think some of them are Imperials that turn face at the end of the war.
But you connect with those characters and we get to that end of the night. So they're on the hunt for this Warlord, Sinja, or Jinger. And I'm an X Imperial and Middle Triget. So they've been doing hit and run on an Imperial basis, an Imperial Squadron.
And then the Republic's going, hey, we got to do something about it. And which is, I got to, let me get my squadron and I will go after them. At the beginning starts with these, I'm not a tri-jet. His Thai fighter is kind of destroying this Talon Squadron from the new Republic.
And we got one of the survivors who joins this new raid squadron. What I love about this book is the connection with the characters. Reminded me about Alpha Bit Squadron. Alpha Bit Squadron, even though it's mainly five, the main cast, of course, and Harrison Doulas there.
It's about this Thai fighter, 212 or whatever it was, Thai fighter squadron and Alpha Bit Squadron just going back and forth. But it's how you connect to those characters. So when you get those Starfighter battles, then you're feeling it. You don't want those characters to die.
So to a lesser extent, I love Alpha Squadron more than this. Although Alpha Squadron is a trilogy, this one I've only listened to one book and all this more. What is that? It's you connect with all these characters before they get into an X winner, before they're up in full trade-up base.
So when you get to those tense moments, you're feeling tense with those characters. So I just mentioned the ones that we know, like which, how we act more gentle. Those are the ones that we know. But the main characters, we have Kel trainer, Min Dounas, who's the only survivor from the Talon's squad that gets destroyed at the beginning.
One of my favorites is this Gamorgan pilot named Piggy. We got a both and Sly's grander, Tyria Sarkin, Runt, which is this alien with different minds. It's almost like different personalities, where he has his pilot man, his normal man. They all act differently.
They have some great voices. This is this actor that wanted to be an excellent pilot. It's not stealing them, but I don't know, whatever it's actor named pilot, he actually uses acting skills. It's a great connection of characters.
Everyone's different. This is one of my favorite Mark Thompson voiceovers. I had some trouble recently with some of his choices for some of the characters, but here everyone works. A percent female characters in the past, and it sounds like a 40 plus man trying to do a 20-year woman.
Here, all of them work. All the voices for the alien characters work. As soon as he does act bar, you don't need to listen to anything else. Sorry, the button is a great voice.
After they capture one of Sinja's cruisers, they destroy the commander there, which is Imperial. They say we're going to pose as the crew in hopes of infiltrating Sinja's operation. As they go doing that, they find out that this warlord basically has the same tactics that the rebellion had at the beginning. All these different cells are not really connected just by him, but they don't know each other.
The Republic gets to one and destroys it. His operation still works because nothing connects to each one of them. So very rebel-like. They say, hey, the only way to get closer is to do all these stops.
This cruiser was going to all these different stops to keep doing Sinja's billing. Let's just keep doing them. We'll impersonate the crew. We have face, who's an actor, and they do basically some big fake.
Some Star Wars deep fake. People say you have to do a hologram. They can just superimpose the commander that was there, that they're impersonating over face, and then he can just act through it with a voice recorder. So it was great.
It's funny as it goes along, and it just goes on and on. Of course, through all these, there's drum battles, there's face battles. All that is very intense. But as they start going to planet, and we see everything that's going on, and we learn more about this warlord's operation, we start learning more about each character.
That's what you fall in love with the character. Kill trainer. We know his dad was killed, but he was shot down by West Janssen back in the rebellion days because he, top-gun, couldn't hack it. And then he was trying to just leave.
On the hay, the empire gets a hold of him. They can just extract information with all kind of screws. So West, unfortunately, had to kill trainers that, and then kill trainer. Held this against West, I mean against Janssen for decades.
They had to change their family name. And then he sees West, he sees West, he sees West, he's going to kill him. So there's that great battle there just between them, and West, and he turns his back, he's going to kill him. So we got this great character order.
Picking, which I'm not sure is this Gamorian pilot. It's a Gamorian pilot, just be there. He was tortured and experimented by the empire, trying to take out all the Gamorian kind of violence, I guess, just to make it less Gamorian more dosa. He spoke through this voculator basic.
And what do you get to grow the Gamorian? It runs first and then the boys. One of my favorite, again, my Tamsen boys acting, and Picking became one of my favorites. Grinder, who love to do pranks.
And then we get a whole chapter, almost, the back of one chapter and the front half of the next one. All these turn it against him. He thinks that deadly insect has been putting his cabin, he's going to die. He thinks he's going crazy, and they just play a prank on him, but he tried to play a prank on someone else.
And you might be, well, I don't care, you'll skip me to the story. No, this is what makes all those characters feel like characters, especially because Grinder had there been two, that's just before that something happened. No one knew who did it. Only Grinder trying to play pranking this way that no one else really understood.
We had Tiria, like I mentioned, who has this love connection with Kael, which takes time, it builds up and makes sense when it happens. But she was always at the bottom of all the other classes, all the training exercises. She's always at the bottom. And then we get Grinder, again, it's the slicer, hey, I can just change the grades or change the points, and you'll be up.
And then she beats the crap out of him because of her previous squad, that she was a previous class, the instructor says she will do something similar if she helped him steal some X-Wing, so we can sell them in the black market. So again, it takes time to build all these characters to win the end-comes. And then you can build that connection to them, and all of them have different connections to them. Jasmine Abbar, again, who's Anro Echlor, is Niz, who thought she only got to her Shiga because of her last name, all that connection.
Dorian, I mean, don't mean Donos, I can mention, he was the leader of Talon Squadron, he's the only human survivor, and they had, again, a great PTSD and survival skills for being the only one bear. But he also has the drawing that survives, so the only, the last member of his squadron, when the draw gets hurt, he just goes into depression, and then you understand why until you learn that. So you build all these great characters that when they get into their ex-wins and the Thai fighters and all the battle starts, now you're investing in them. So again, I don't know if they did a great job in building each character, having so many characters, when the action comes, you feel for them.
Unfortunately, some of them die, and you feel bad for it. Again, great writing job, great voice over job by Mark Thompson, I guess the music and the special effects, everything works, great space battle. And they kind of know that there's more books in this series, well, they deal with Amil Triget, they don't get to Warlords in just, they're still doing his stuff, but they're going to. It's not like I let someone else know they're building to it.
Really great book, I really want to push it out there if you like, Alpha Squadron, if you like all these space battles, if you love, you're not getting to Leggensburg, I think this is a good one. Even if you don't do the audio books, I think it's a good choice to try these one chapters, like 35 minutes, more or less, which isn't too bad, like listen to a chapter in my way to work, listen to another launch, another in my way back. So, great book, check it out there, I do recommend that great squadron, excellent by Aaron Alstone, give me a chance, it's a good read out there. Alright, so I am done for today, let me take this off, and I see, or friend, let me, oh, I had the wrong one.
I don't want to leave you, I don't want to leave you, episode 15 have two part episodes instead of 25 minutes, I was thinking about that because last season, going back with Bad Match, last season finale was a two part turn. So, it cannot make sense, we got a 20 minute, part one, 20 minute, part two, then, okay, it's fine, 20, 25, we got a 45 to pre-timing episodes, I mean, finale, that works, I want to say maybe season one was in like that, but I can't remember, I didn't check how long the finale for season one was, but we'll see, season three can be just one episode, it's a longer episode that 40 minutes, so we can have 35 to 40 makes sense. We can also prize that they didn't go with the two part finale, it cannot make sense, but we'll see what happens next week when we get there. So again, thanks to Cliff, Phil Smurborn, thanks to Dale, thanks to Brandon, again check our style, we're going to be with Brandon on his podcast, the patient, next week, we'll record next week and then we'll be released later on.
And then all the way back next week, before I talk on the Bad Match finale, we'll try to get through all six episodes of The Empire. Again, I'll say it again, send us, if you're not put it down the comments now, or send us Twitter, DM, whatever you want, and I'll post it later this week. What are you doing on May 4th, what are some of your traditions for May 4th, are you going to go see the Phantom Menace, do you always watch your favorite Star Wars movie, do you go to Galactus Edge, what are some of your Star Wars made for traditions, I will discuss them here live next week. Alright guys, anything else, I don't think so, but as always, I'm so glad you guys have got it all right, can't wait for next week, with the Bad Match finale, I took it talking Star Wars.
So, thanks for joining us this week, we'll see you next week, stay safe, be safe, may the force be with you, see you guys, bye and Chet Troy.