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S8 EP17: Review: The Bad Batch Series Finale/Tales of the Empire

from Radio Rebellion: A Star Wars Podcast · host Alberto M Calderon

The Bad Batch has come to an end with an emotional and satisfying finale. What is in store for the future of Omega? Barriss Offee and Morgan Elsbeth return in Tales of the Empire. What did we think about the new animated shorts? Live action Vectors. Verns lightsaber. A new cute creature. It's a new poster for The Acolyte and a surprise trailer. Happy May the 4th!!! Follow Oti https://twitter.com/EPEstarGuars Bad Wolf Broadcast https://twitter.com/BadWolf_fni Link Tree: https://t.co/QiW944JnUG?amp

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The Bellians Build Come Hook! Happy May the Fourth Week! Welcome to another episode of Radio Rebellum. My Star Wars podcast, I'm your host, Habakto Gadiran.

And we're there on the other side. It's like a host. Only one, okay. We're on the end.

Are you doing today on the Star Wars Day, which of course is up to Poland? Star Wars Saturday for us, we have Radio Rebellum. I'm doing great. I've been having a very, very Star Wars day.

So I'm very excited to be here. It's been a wild Star Wars day in a good sense. It's a great! Everyone's been pumped, news, posters, trailers, trailers, six shorts.

A lot to talk about today. It's been a great Star Wars day so far. Thank you to everyone out there, join us today. Or watching later.

Happy Star Wars Day. Happy May the Fourth. I know some people say that Star Wars Day should still be May 23. I don't care.

Give me two. What, make the fourth? Sometimes people ask me, are you on May the fifth? First time on May the sixth.

And I'm like, both. Why not both? But here we are. A lot to talk about today, obviously.

Let's start. Everyone watching out there. If you're watching us now, thanks for being here. Make sure you subscribe to our channel.

You don't miss any of the new episodes when they drop. Hit that thumbs up button. Give us a like. If you're watching this later on, if you want to come back and watch it again and put some notes on everything we're talking about during today's episode and we'll release this later on the week in the audio podcast.

Also, write and interview. All that fun stuff that you guys know. But it's, I want to say it's all about the bad batch, but not really. There's a lot.

It is so much. It's so much. It's so much that I completely forgot we were going to talk about the bad batch. Did I head on my notes first?

Let's go straight to the bad batch and then something happened. Something else. I'll worry about it's fine. We have to do it today.

What? What just dropped? Did I miss something? No.

I'm not going to see. It's coming out tomorrow. She's lying. She hasn't read the script yet.

She wrote the script. She wrote it. And skeleton crew supposedly dropping in December. I don't have that.

I was going to mention that I saw that while we were recording with Brennan. I was going to mention that I just dropped, but I completely forgot. I think we can speculate that it makes sense to come out in the holiday season. I just hope it's like holiday related because I will never understand why we did it in the entire year.

I hope you hear. Last December was supposed to come out. Supposedly. Anything in the comment.

But how they put out in the chat today on this. We have the wonderful Mo. Hi Mo. Hi Mo.

How have you made that for you? We have Brennan. It's been a while since we've talked. Yeah.

So Brennan, thanks again for having us on your podcast yesterday. Me and Otty were guests on page turners that were not. I believe that episode will drop on Tuesday. It was basically a lot of letters to Star Wars.

We talked about everything we liked. Everything. So check it out. I had a lot of fun.

It was a long one. I want to have a week over music. Literally everything. Everything we can think about as we went straight into.

I'm sure that there are multiple chords that we've made before Star Wars day. They all are on the chat today. Hello. How are you doing?

All right. So like we've been said, that's a lot to talk about, let's go. And if you guys are ready, I'm not ready. Let's go.

Star Wars and Star Wars news. Star Wars news. Truly. I'm gonna lie.

I just like now, we're not going to Star Wars news. Otty, how's it going? I was sorry. I was sorry, I have two stories.

Really to Star Wars books. So I'm back home. I left Florida and I left to my copy. Sorry.

I'm fine. I was sorry. Ah, you know, it's like oops, but in other ways, like I want to read it because what's the next one? The limitation of the force.

The temptation of the force is coming. It's still like a while before it comes out, but it's coming and I want to read Dune. So yeah, another bomb on the road with this book. And the other thing that happened.

So a couple of, maybe it was like last month or something. Gun Jackson Miller had this thing on Twitter where if you showed him evidence that you bought the living force, he would send you a book plate, so sign book plate. And that got in the mail. I think it was on Wednesday.

And my mother sent me a picture and she only sent me like the tag. I could see it was like kind of a box, but it was one of these leaves. But it only looked like a box. And it said random house books, something like that was like, what?

I just get a review copy. I was so excited. I was going, I left a client I was visiting. And instead of coming here, I went to my house.

I was like, where is it? Where is it? And she's like, oh, here we go. And when I saw it, I immediately remembered what it was.

I was like, ah, it's like, yeah, yeah, it's a bomb. Yeah, exactly. I totally forgot about that. I was thinking, oh my god, there's only a review copy for some patients.

This is so exciting. Oh, I'm sorry. It wasn't that. Yeah.

Well, I didn't get a physical copy of the story. It's basically following that same story so far and things that happened, of course, in the far the storm are mentioned. So it would be good if you read that first, but especially whatever that first book was. I am talking.

Thank you. All right. So I was thinking something. Let's get to storm.

I mean, we're going to start. We're going to start the posters because they straight came out of nowhere. But the I'm going to release a new poster yesterday. First banner and there's a new poster.

But let's talk about this. We have all the Jedi that we know, all the characters basically that we've been introduced. And I love that little cute creature next to the Wookie Jedi to kill Naka. But the big draw is that dark side user that we like.

Night of Ren? Yeah, exactly. Night of Ren Inquisitor looking guy. That before the trailer drop, I like this guy will have nothing to do in the series.

He will be an older man, a little bit for 10 seconds. He'll be just to wear an appetite and then the trailer drop. And we'll talk about that. But this poster is, again, the bad bad just ended and now we're full on into like like mode.

I was very hyped and surprised we got this poster, but I love it. And the middle is the model of the witches. Part of the open hands. I can keep calling it, but do you like this poster?

The poster is pretty sick. We get vectors, we get Jedi vectors, which is so exciting. I remember the first time we saw the drawing. I remember reading the book for the first time.

I'm being so confused because we had just gotten a tendency with all the vectors. But yeah, man, it's coming. It's going. It's exciting.

When I first saw the poster, I didn't even see that poster. It was a very busy day at work, obviously. It was a cut out. That's the screenshot of this.

Let's call it, I don't know. Let's say for a dark force user. Just a cut out of that person. And I thought it was one of the inquisitors from tells of the empire because I was dropping today.

But then when I clicked on the picture, the whole poster showed up. Oh, no, it's an acolyte poster. This is great. Oh, who's that creature down there?

I love him already. I'm not going to be a big kid with all the stories. And then someone else posted, oh, live action vectors. I'm not going to go into the Harry Party.

Like officially, not just in name. Like Harry, probably, iconography. Very excited. And then the trailer dropped.

Which I was watching Good Morning America this morning. So I woke up very early to watch those at the empire. And they showed a little clip, like a 30 second clip or a shorter. So I'm going to call something new, probably soon a new trailer will drop.

And then what I'm out doing stuff, you DM me the freaking trailers. So you're like, no, I got a way to get home and watch and I got to watch my phone in the middle of a store. So I'll wait. I was having breakfast at a bakery.

I was having breakfast. And I watched it with an audio just like, and then I went out to make it far. I immediately put it on and be like, okay, I'm going to watch it. Yeah, I was waiting for my daughter to come out of addressing rukos.

She's buying dresses for her graduation. So I wasn't going to be watching. I was like, all right, let me wait. I can wait to almost wait until today to do a official reaction.

But no, I couldn't wait. Yeah, I wasn't that. But enough with that. Let's watch it.

Let's watch it and talk about it. Let me get it here. I don't want to say no. All right.

Last night, a Jedi was murdered. It's kind of going to follow this investigation. From the studio that brought you. Thanks a bit.

No, I don't know. In the name of peace. In the name of peace is a lie. There's a shot on the action look.

So the music, by the way, is really cool. Do we know who's doing the soundtrack? No, I can't do that. Yeah, confirmation that there's some flashback.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Not that little shit that kind of separates. Burned.

Burned. I'm not sold on that kid. Emory. Emory.

Emory. Okay, so we think that that figure has to be the dark side of the use of the music. Yeah, I guess. That's cool.

That's cool. And then I love this. Let me say, oh, there's a little creature from poster. When he's taking May, then there's kind of an attack on that town and everything.

Yeah. If you want to push it. So right there, that's him trying to take her. And I'll hear that guy from the list.

Oh, that music. Does that look a smile? Yeah, it's got like the Joker smile with deep everything. Two episodes.

I think we knew it was two episodes, probably. But anyway, there you go. I thought I was going to be. I have a work trip in Dunan.

All of a sudden, I was like, no, no, no, no, no. But I'll be here over here. I'll be here over here. I have a baby shower that day.

We'll talk. We'll figure it out. Okay. All right.

So just real quick as we break it down. So we knew there was an investigation which being told that we're going to see kind of both sides. Not playing at the same time, but we'll get that someone's one of you. And then the Jedi, let's say one of you, contrary to mayor and everyone else.

So that's very interesting for something in Star Wars. We knew that was going to be investigation from the previous trailer. Someone is getting Jedi or something is getting Jedi. And we've had the question here.

Is it May? Is it that we just covered with more than any say, or is it like you mentioned, maybe this acolyte out there that's trying to bring out the attention of the safe? Is the one killing the Jedi? Hey, I'm here, pick me as an apprentice or something.

And then maybe that guy we should get in. Also, I forgot the first kind of scenes with many asymptos characters. They're talking to me. Yeah, the Jedi, they're keeping the peace.

But maybe that peace is not exact. Sorry? It's a lie. Yeah, that peace is a lie, which I'm not sure who said that, right?

I think that's right. Yeah, could be. But I love when he said the Jedi just defied the galactic dominance in the name of peace. And we show those people behind that jail or containment cell.

I don't just have visuals. How is this more or less what you expected? Exactly what I expected. And in a good way, by the way, I'll keep repeating.

This is I think what most of us wanted to see when they announced that this thing had fought locus with them and we were getting in with Louise. I think that yes, the idea of episode seven to nine sounded amazing. But I think that most of us wanted to go back and wanted to explore like these other animals. At that moment, it was all about the old republic.

Now we know that's very different to what we thought of. So yeah, visually, I think it's interesting because it's very much the aesthetic of Star Wars as we know it. But it feels a little bit different. Yeah.

That's something apart from the show itself talking about the aesthetic of Star Wars. Sometimes when I watch different TV shows, be it Star Trek or I'm starting to watch Black Sales, some of those other big body shows brings a power out to the dragon, they look different to what a Star Wars show looks like. And I was like, why don't the Star Wars look like this show? It doesn't the camera move like that.

But I think at the same time, maybe it doesn't feel like Star Wars if you start doing all those kind of one shots and let's do a close up on this lightsaber and then spin the camera 360. Maybe it doesn't feel like Star Wars. And I think this show, at least through retailers, has a balance between them because the action seems to be more, I don't know, I don't even know what it looks different. Just because there's a lot of fun to come back, this is different that we've seen with Ahsoka, for example, that was great with all these lights, but it's still for like Star Wars, kind of that prequel era a little bit further back.

Yeah. Yeah, it for me even looks like a movie, like a Star Wars movie, like everything with every trailer, I thought, what if I saw this in the movie theater, which by the way, I will come up hours because they're giving that teaser thing. Yeah, and I think it's an extended scene of that fight between I think it's a fight between Trinity and Amanda, which I saw on a potato camera a few days ago. Oh, it was not from the Phantom Menace in some other events in a different country and someone filmed it sideways, so I have to tilt my laptop to watch it.

It's like a three minute scene of that fight, which is great. But of course, the way is cut, you know, that they remove a couple of things, but the action itself was great. I'd love to hear your take a minute later. So again, cool action scenes.

Of course, we got Coruscant, we got a bunch of cool planets, cool ships, which is what we love in Star Wars, kind of build that world. He was new ships, new droids, and they must have been sold, taken away May as a little kid, it's not too little, it's probably six or eight. Yeah, it's just a kid. He wants to be the one to bring her back.

Basically, some way in investigation, they decided that she's the one. I mean, she kind of showed up to Mastering Deira to Trinity and Azure to fight, so kind of easy to know him. She's involved in this. So, price that we're kind of getting that scene of where she got picked up.

I kind of noticed in the first one that there might be some flashbacks. And now we're biggads with the haircuts. Yeah, the haircut. Yeah, I'm surprised that we revealed it because I think that gives...

We still don't know exactly what's going on, but it gave a little bit more context. Like, no, this is the scene where she's being taken. And I wonder what happens in that scene because we got that kid with the black eyes and anything like what's happening, it seems to be in the same scene. So, by the way, I wanted to touch on the main thing.

I still think, I honestly still think at the risk of being horribly wrong. They're framing her as a villain with trailer magic. I'm still not convinced she is the villain. Maybe she has villainous intentions.

Maybe she dabbles into dark things, but I don't think she's like the main villain. I think if Leslie had to come out to say, first, this isn't going to go the way people think it's going to be different. And knowing that it's from two different point of views, I think it's 100%. I'm with you in thinking that this is trailer magic.

It's too obvious. And she might be, but it might not be like the reasons that we think. And also what surprised me is that when she gets picked up by Master Saul, she's with that group of witches and Master Anisei, the path of the open hand like you've seen. I had no idea.

I thought that when she left the Jedi, then she found this group that had a different view of the force. Yeah, so it's cool to see that she calls for the group. Yeah, those are the roots. I actually goes back or they find her because once the Jedi take you, you're not supposed to have any contact with your family or your past.

Maybe they find her and kind of start talking to her about the Jedi, or what do you stuff or whatever. But I think that was a cool reveal that those are part of her roots and not just something that she meets afterwards. So Vernetra, we got Vernetra saying this feels like a part of a larger plan. Something else is coming.

I'm still not sold on Vernetra. I'll see how the show goes. But just having her there is kind of that connection to the Harry public and at least someone because she's seen through a lot. She might be the one saying, hey, we got to connect some dots.

At least I know we are as simple as we think. Why do you mean you're not convinced by Vernetra? I don't know. Maybe I'm just too used to her as this teenager younger person.

I think her 100 years later. 200 years later. Yeah. I mean, I'm trying to know what her role is going to be because I still think she's not going to have a major role, but it's definitely bigger than I thought when she was announced.

I honestly thought she was a background character. Yeah, that's really not fair. Yeah, I thought we were getting a flashback to her Harry public and she was there for a two minute scene or something. But now she's thinking she should be more involved into it.

But maybe just that scene in Kurosan. Although she does have two different outfits in the first trailer. So that's the one that we saw turning to Black Eyes, but I want Tobin. He was revealed with the cast a couple of weeks back when the date went.

So I don't know if this happens when they pick up May or afterwards during the investigation. It kind of looks like when they pick up May. I don't know. Then he won't make it out.

I'm guessing because it's very young. I've heard a lot of people talk by the way that Trinity is going to die. I have my last hands in that scene. How do you feel about that?

I don't think that scene. I think she's a very powerful Jedi master. I don't think at least at that point that May is in a position to kill her. Oh, we're talking about Para Loza?

No, I don't. Maybe I'm not going that far. So early on, knowing trailers, we know they... I don't know because I'm gonna say, well, we know it's our trailers.

What we're seeing is probably the first two episodes. Maybe a little bit more. But if that's the murder that kind of pushes the investigation, then maybe she does die early on. And then since we're gonna see different point of view, so she flashed by then.

She's not there for one episode. We'll see more of her. I hope not because what I've seen on that character really, I'm interested to see how he progresses and the background that character will learn more about her. So hopefully she doesn't die early on.

I don't know. I think she kills that other guy that's kind of meditating and she just jumped through that knife of her. I don't know. It kind of felt like a bit too easy.

Although she did stuff halfway before stabbing him. Again, we'll see. Do you think she's going to die early? I kind of think she is.

I think we'll see her in flashbacks, but I think she's gone. Let's say episode two. Hopefully I'm wrong, by the way. Yeah.

But it'll be cool if that's the murder of a Jedi Master, is what pushes the person to do something. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes he's like, no, no, no, you're wrong.

Oh, I just answered that. They killed Trinity. What? What?

What? This was funny, this line, just because of something we spoke yesterday with Brennan. It's when she says, I believe, May says, this thing is not decided for you, I don't know. And yet, we talk about the other half of all these, the force you're supposed to be, the chosen one, you're going to do this, you're going to do that.

And it comes to a choice between good or evil. And that's why this is not, this force doesn't tell you, this is cool to see that. Anyway, let's go to the Knight of Ren Inquisitor. Extremely surprised for the show in the poster.

Like I said before, it's going to be a nothing character. What are you? And then the lightsaber, let's fight. That the acolyte is that just an in between?

No, maybe that's Robin. I don't know. He looks cool or she looks cool. I mean, all inquisitors or all those are users with those type of helmets and all black cloaks.

They look extremely cool. But I don't think that's a big bad anyways, because that doesn't get revealed here. I think either he's the big bad guy sitting somewhere in a hork Conan style. We don't think it was too young, I need someone else.

Yeah, maybe that's pretty good. I don't know. I don't think I have no idea. My mind goes everywhere.

Maybe it's a Knight of Ren. It would be cool to get the Knight of Ren, sorry, you want to connect everything. So just speculation a little bit. Everyone's, oh, there's a safe.

We don't know if it's a safe, but everyone needs to die, because there's a force user. I mean, a dark side user there with red light sabers. I was still thinking that Jedi might just cover everything up if indeed the seat already. Oh, there is this just someone that red light saber that's a force user.

Don't lean back too far. I can still imagine the Jedi being like, that technically wasn't a safe, because Sif are from this part of the galaxy and he's from others, so we're going to ignore it. I don't know if that person is a safe. I think that it will be revealed, and I think that Jedi will hide it.

Or do something to, yeah, yeah, not really. Like you said, find out technicality. Because we know this show is also leading to the way the Jedi are by the Phantom Man, which are these precisely. Yeah, they're just kind of not missing the point, because they're being, of course, kind of power, but they're not manipulating everything.

But things are happening right under their nose. And if you've been lucky enough to read the High Republic, it wouldn't be the first time that the Jedi in the whoever is think that it's better for everyone else if they hide a bit of the truth out there. So I think it will be something like that, that the seat will, someone, someone, someone, someone, will show up on those right to hide. It's like the part of what we can say in a whole kind of way, if the eyes don't see the heart doesn't feel.

Yeah. Especially when it turns you to stone and does it exactly what can we put the power of friendship to finish the roller very soon, very soon. Someone's don't I can believe? I'll be public, someone's don't.

Anyway, the act like one month away June 4th can be like four years we're finally getting the accolade. I remember when they announced it, they changed the logo. Yeah. All right.

So guys, let us know what you thought about the trailer and how excited are you for the accolade? I've seen a lot of positive reaction to this trailer. I watched someone that used to watch a lot and really respected the opinion. In the past, not so much now.

They weren't too happy with the trailer. But all the comments in that video, all the fans were like, it sounds really great. And everyone's intrigued by this investigation, which again is very different from what we say. Like I who does a lot of videos of you of those.

Yeah. Okay. I didn't watch this reaction. Yeah.

I was waiting for the show and let me watch it. Anyway, the acolyte. I'm very happy for this. Very happy.

All right, Otty. Let's go to our, I'll say main topic. And it's that part of the show where we talk, should have been part of the acolyte TV shows on Star Wars on TV with your boy, I'm fine. Oh man.

For droids. Right. Otty the Bad Batch has come and gone. Season three, series finale, the cavalry has arrived episode 15 this past Wednesday and it didn't disappoint.

We talked a couple of weeks ago or a couple of months that Star Wars animation knows how to do finales. And this one, it's right up there with some of the best. As we go through this, we'll of course break everything down. Everyone here knows I did that.

That's one of my favorite Star Wars animated series. And maybe if I sit down and watch the first two seasons, I'll change my mind. But season three might be my favorite season of animated Star Wars. Because even if one or two episodes didn't hit that high mark, everything else was almost perfect.

The music, the animation, the emotional beats, the action, the stakes. I know people, some people, oh no one died, some responded for the end. They didn't kill anyone. There were a lot of times when I thought some of them weren't gonna make.

I was really scared for Raker halfway through this finale. But before we break it down, just your overall thoughts on this last episode. Ooh, on this last episode, I think this is hard because Clone Wars had such a great finale with that four episodes on basically. And Rebels had a sensational finale which had ramifications going forward.

But this might be my favorite Star Wars animated finale. I was very nervous for a lot of a long time watching it because like you, I thought at different points, I thought each of them were gonna bite it. And even when they like, I mean, we're talking spoilers, I guess, even when they kill him, like I'm like, oh no, but now Tarka's gonna write. So, thank God that didn't happen.

And I thought that in many ways it brought home all the themes and everything the show was trying to say in this one episode and the message of the show goes front and center. And I don't know, I really, really liked it. Yeah, it's, let's go. It's, oh, it's last week, we didn't get to talk last week of Bayfield.

Rampa was captured by friend Rampa with all his ridiculousness. Of course, there's bad, turns back to you, obviously, once the, to get back in the good grades with the Empire, well, guess what's coming to him? Hamlock saying, oh, I'm indispensable because when I'm working on fronting, I'm so important. I like, do it.

You're dying. Just the number, buddy. Yeah, just the number. Yes, exactly.

But I'm like, yes, it's where especially when we get, oh, talking hurt, that's something happening. You got a call from Tarka. He's like, yeah, yeah, I'm on my way there. I was waiting for him to say, you know, I'm bringing someone with me.

They have to mention Baydah, like here we go. We're getting Baydah, choking out Rampa, didn't get that way. Didn't go that way. We'll talk about Rampa's and later on, which I think would probably better for the story that we're getting.

But then Emory Carr and Echo working together. What are your thoughts on Emory Carr? I was kind of, I mentioned this on my review that for me, it was kind of weird because they introduced her last minute of last season. And then this whole season was all like, well, she won't, she, I think we, if we had spent a little bit more time with her, I would have liked the character more.

I was more in the, I don't care territory, but she's also like, I like her character in the sense that she's the kind of character that's like, well, I'm just gonna ignore this and it'll go away. But then it's a choice to do something about it. And it's like that thing that it's never too late. You can no matter what you ignore.

And by the way, ignoring something is maybe not as bad as doing it, but it's not good either. So I like what she represented in that sense. But I wish she had been introduced earlier in the show. So we had like that whole journey with her.

Yeah, my issue with her is that you didn't know what you signed up to work for the Empire. You don't search a high level as a scientist and then, oh, wait, I think my reading of her, I think she had kind of had like Stockholm syndrome because she was a clone. So she was transferred from coming out to this and it's like, no, this is what you do. So I think it was kind of an across her situation that we don't question anything, we just do what we're told and that's our job.

All right, anyway, it's not my favorite. I kind of imagine she was going to do that turn to the good side a couple of episodes into it when she found out what was going on and where every time I last I talked to her and when she said, oh, I really can't do anything, you'll be able to do something. But I'm glad it was echo that kind of got her. Let's go find what do you mean those kids in the vault?

Let's go check this out. And then more imperial incompetence, this vault is so important. It has your test subjects. There's an invasion.

Let's just leave one scientist there. There's no one else. Well, you're not protecting these kids with all your army. But the kids in Omega take that droid, hijack that droid and just freaking you turn it.

I love that scene when the droid is kind of slowly just going behind Dr. Scott. Then what's happening? We just don't great.

It was beautifully shot. Well, Omega, so doing her little bad bash group then. She was kind of the hunter of that group. Yeah, I love him.

I mean, I'm sorry. Like I said, over a winter you called me out. I was in two weeks in Omega in the first couple of seasons, but man, this season she was great. She took control early on.

She was needed to be done. I love that her risk commission isn't really her risk commission because she she's handling it on her own also. I mean, Omega's awesome. Seeing her grow through these seasons and basically turn into a integral part of the group.

Like she she is a part of them. She is not like there to be saved. She's working at times they're saving her, but yes, at times she's saving them. So that was right.

Great thing with her that just this whole article, those three seasons, she couldn't obviously do this in season one. But you don't question it now. It's like, of course you'll be able to do all this because of everything now that she's going through all the time she spent with all the different members of the United Man's learning to fly. Being with record in season one and season two and spending so much time with with echoing a couple of them.

Of course, across the beginning of these seasons, of course, at this one she'll be able to do all those missions by herself. It doesn't matter if she's a 13 year old girl or whatever, all she is. It just makes sense that she doesn't need to be rescued completely. She still needs to find everyone and together get out of there.

Before she goes and releases the Kraken on everyone, we start getting those little hints that the record's not doing too well. She went hand to hand with that weird owl bear beast last week got destroyed. It's not moving fast. It's falling behind.

He's hurt. So I'm like, oh no, I'll do for each other in records there. And then later on, it keeps going. I'm like, crap, we're gonna lose record.

I kind of think they did that to take him out of the picture a little bit because if we get 100% record, then it's easy for them. But that kind of happened with the rest of them. Like, crosshair and hunter by the end, they were just like fighting just to stay away. Because they were like, it's like me right now.

At different points, I thought any of them could have died, honestly. So before we go back to... So anyway, so Omega and the kids make it to the to the Silobis enclosure. Kind of make these freaking kids the baby crying in the bag.

They're able to go through it, just release the Kraken release that Silobis and destroy solo Nantantis, which is why I kind of expected I talked about that last week. I never thought that Omega was gonna take the Silobis and eat hemlock like some people wanted. Maybe we wanted that we don't fit with Omega as a character. Plus hemlock didn't have to die that way.

I love the Silobis just destroying everything. They sent every contingency against it. It's not gonna work. We just break cells.

I love record, remind them of you and he says, why didn't we bring Badger? Also when there's the other... I was like, whoa! Badger's alive.

Badger's alive. We got him at the end. But at that point, and this is when I thought that some of them might also die. I love when Crosshair takes over and takes the reins.

I said, do it. Record is not doing well. Omega needs you guys. You go to Go Call Rex.

I've been here before. Let me take care of it. Clothor's 99 died with Echo. I mean, with Tech.

We're not the same group. We're not the same batch. We're different. I gotta do this.

I like, yes. But then I loved even more with Hunter and record. Both said, shut up. You're not sacrificing yourself.

You're not doing plan 99. Omega needs all of us. And we're doing this together. And he was like, yeah, you guys are right.

Let's go. I love both things. One doesn't take away from the other. But when he tells record and Hunter, hey, you guys should go do that while I'm the one that enters the facility.

That I'm like, oh crap, now he's gonna be Crosshair that dies. And I was scared for the next that was funny because it's Crosshair doing the cliche star. We're saying, but I love that the batch was the bad batch is like, no, you're not looking at you. Come on.

Similar to the right to Skywalker when races, I gotta do this alone. Yeah, alone with friends. Like when I got to do that by yourself. Exactly.

Yeah. So I love that. Because I mean, if you go back to my first episodes, you don't want to say I'm like, I don't care about these characters. These group of bad batch.

I don't feel anything for them. And now at the end, like you should wait for the whole series to go by. I love all of you. I was so mad on them after a clone was season seven.

I didn't hate them, but I just did not feel any attachment to them. And when the show got announced, that was so weird for us. Yeah. But it's funny because it was kind of like, and bored.

Like, I was like, and for sure. Why? And then like, it's like, shut up and watch, make sense. And I'm glad we got this because it was good.

It was pretty good. It was awesome. My brother, I keep saying my brother, who's an OG star was fan. He's if you think I'm older, he texted me apart from Mando season two.

This is the best Star Wars that we've gotten in the years since Mando season two has been the bad batch. I don't want to go that far, but it was great. And I can still be Star Wars. It's gonna be funny stuff when the Silobass breaks out.

Where is it? Is that echo Sandy work or Omega? And then Omega, just the one that released the Silobass. There's a funny transition that I love.

It's like the Silobass beast is screaming. And we got to the rest of the batch and absolute silence. Yeah. Then we're getting super clones.

The bad batch. Yeah, when they woke up, I thought they were clones of the Fort Bad Bum. I think they kind of were. I thought we got to get out revealed that all the helmets.

Yeah, I'm glad they didn't go that way. No, afterwards, exactly. When I think about it later, I'm glad it didn't happen. Well, when he first arrived, oh, here's the big guy.

That's the other one. Then go to the answer scheme. Simply. You're cut across his hand.

You got to be more careful when you're shooting him. Go up. So Omega and Echo meet up with Emory, the only kids, and happen just exactly as I said last week. You're gonna make it to the shuttle.

But Omega says, hey, I gotta go back and find the clones. Rescue the clones, find my brothers. She saw them with Echo when they were kind of taking them. I think if you were gonna divide this into a two-parter, you kind of end part one there and then do the other episode.

Well, actually before that, I love where En, Echo kind of calls to Omega, causing chaos, havoc five. They're still giving her that that calling from before. The kids didn't use the force, so I would miss on that one. But it's fine.

Anyway, so the second half, I would say, on the finale starts with Hemlock trying to recondition the bad batch again. Reminds us across here. You didn't make it to this point. We couldn't recondition you, but we're gonna try again.

And you're all gonna be part of my group. I don't know what he wants to do. I'll be wrong. At that point, it wouldn't help anything.

That's when then we're talking, kind of, has that conversation with Hemlock that he's going over. But Echo and Omega, find the clones, release the clones, and then Echo has his little moment, kind of rallying the troops. I'm glad that he's the one that got to tell their clones, hey, I know you're suffering enough. You got one more fighting you, and then one of the clones only leave all the clones behind or something like that.

And then everyone's ready to go fight. So I enjoy that point. I was feeling going to this, that they clung rebellion to a certain extent. We're going there.

Oh, there's a grand point. At that point, Rem, I was like, what are we doing here? Let's just leave. And Nala's just like, I got to destroy my research.

It is, can we know one? And then he follows her, like freaking Rem, what can I do? I love that she tells him everything and then kills it. Yeah.

I mean, when she took the thermal detonator, she's not as dumb as people might think. She knew something might happen. And by the way, they do something very funny where he's like, you're gonna tell me everything. And they cut back to the conversation.

He's like, wow, that's a lot. The whole thing is pickle part, puppeteer, and all the snow clones. I love actually blew him up. Like, I don't care.

The empire is taking my research. No one's taking this. This belongs to the coming of ones. You're ready to destroy the focus theory and taking this to the grave.

And that's basically why I pro-de-necker-mancer, 40 years afterwards, is still a work in progress. So, hey, Nala, say you saved the galaxy, even if you didn't. For a couple years. Still, again, everyone else shows up.

Anyway, the big thing, the round two battle with between those super clones and the bat-batch, Omega, just create a distraction echo. Just get shot, get all the other clones killed while I try to let them out. And then she does the, I have a Hulk moment. Like, you forgot I have them or something.

They just lose knots. That was such a great moment. It's one of the high-best servers once I had in a while. Like, when she says you forget, he's giving her the speech, the clothes, and you forgot one thing.

I have them. I just love seeing wild record. Like you say, if record was honest from the beginning, this was record from season seven, where he's lifting up the shot. This was record.

No one's standing in my way. And I was afraid again for him or that one. He just tackling everyone. And using that bat-a-ram with that shield, it's close coming with, not like, say, with those weird knives, everyone's getting shot at and still hunter and cross are trying to wake up.

So, I thought that he might die trying to take everyone out. So, I think for that most part, I think record is not going to make it. But great action scene. Again, pull crosser without his hand.

And CX2 is just a clone. What's that one? No, no, no, no technique. I mean, at that point.

But when he got to talk to the wall, I thought the helmet's gonna come out. And there's gonna be some reveal. No, nothing. No.

Again, don't be mad. There's nothing in the 15 episode that says this is cross, this is tech. Yeah. Just a clone.

So, I wasn't mad. What's the deal? Give me something. But no.

Let me just let me see if it's just a regular clone. Take the helmet off. Maybe it has some weird hair or something. Or a shift angle.

So, let's talk about the hand-loves and so he takes omega. That's what all villains do. Put the black, the binders on him and Omega has the Batman switch. If you kill me, you kill everyone or we'll go over the border.

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