The Bad Batch season 3 episode 5 is out and nobody cares, so me and Omega are going back to bed
The Bad Batch season 3 episode 5 is out and nobody cares, so me and Omega are going back to bed
The Bad Batch season 3 episode 5 is out and nobody cares, so me and Omega are going back to bed
Did anything happen?
That's because it was boring as frick and the usual Bad Batch formula episode.
No. A few good character moments that took like a few minutes total. The rest was just another monster of the week shit with boring and dull action sequences, while the other characters need to download data from the console. The usual fricking trite.
Literally the only good moment across the entire fricking 26 minutes runtime.
My "favorite" part was that the cliffhanger from last week was skipped over (we start on the next day, not immediately where we left off) and that Tech's death was talked over off-screen. Crosshair knew all along, Omega told him sometime in the past off-screen. The only thing we got in regards to Tech was one throw-away line and Crosshair's sad facial expression. That's it.
>The only thing we got in regards to Tech was one throw-away line and Crosshair's sad facial expression. That's it.
They all know that no one's ever really gomr
Tech had a great sacrifice, it would suck balls if they undid that and he was perfectly alive, albeit with a few wounds. Unless they did some sort of Hemlock SW Reanimator™ technology and Dr. Hemlock "brings back" Tech as a stumbling corpse and everyone gets to see that abomination. Where he is plainly dead and the doctor just desecrated a brother for scientific advancement.
>Unless they did some sort of Hemlock SW Reanimator™ technology and Dr. Hemlock "brings back" Tech as a stumbling corpse and everyone gets to see that abomination. Where he is plainly dead and the doctor just desecrated a brother for scientific advancement
This, or all that survived of Tech was his brain while his body was completely gimped to the point he's just a brain in a jar running calculations for Hemlock. I think it would be pretty kino if they rescue Tech and put him in a robot body and instead of him missing his old body he's just goes full "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me".
Only reason I think they shouldn't do that is because it basically just a repeat of Echo's situation, but crazier.
Dark Trooper Zero Project, with Ram Mohc's introduction at the end.
For real is tech guy dead or they will make a "i pretended to be dead waiting for the momment to reveal myself"
>No. A few good character moments that took like a few minutes total. The rest was just another monster of the week shit with boring and dull action sequences, while the other characters need to download data from the console. The usual fricking trite.
See, I’m fine with the show slowing down and taking some time to further develop the characters and their feelings. Like, Crosshair is fricking back with the team for example. But they won’t even take much time doing that.
>That's because it was boring as frick and the usual Bad Batch formula episode.
Having only seen a few episodes and getting most of my information from seeing Cinemaphile threads popping up, i get the impression that Bad Batch is 1/3 amazing and 2/3 average to painfully average
>You’re angry because she escaped with my help, not yours
Kino episode
Episode was okay
a lot was skipped over but there was still some good character moments, episodes story was a bit generic with monster of the week, but it at least tied into the best episode of the show (the outpost)
we should've at least got a scene of Crosshair talking to Hunter immediately after the last episode, and him being told about Tech's death
one thing to note is the lighting, you can see Crosshair at the end in a 50/50 with the light and with the shadow, where he turns towards the light side
6-7/10, 6/10 isnt bad just a bit mediocre
I will say they have perfected the Clone Wars art style, shit looks so damn good. Only thing Lucasfilm is on the ball on.
Why did you eat my post 4chins
Where the frick did it go
Christ I guess I’ll summarize and hope I’m not just sent to the shadow realm
I really liked Crosshair still being torn up about Mayday and showing respect to him and the other clones by arranging their helmets in a box
Also how Omega was playing a reasonable reconciliator rather than just whining at Hunter and Crosshair to make up
Slush-Hulud wasn’t the most interesting plot point but I enjoyed it well enough. Especially seeing Crosshair and Betcher working in synch so quickly
You know, there is an Aayla Secura acting tsundere about you touching her lekku thread in the catalog. And that got me to rewatch those Aayla episodes from TCW S1, The Jedi Crash and Defenders of Peace. And I was reminded, yet again, of just how much meat was in those episodes thematically, how many great character interactions there were, how good were the overall plot and action sequences. Even if it doesn't look as good, but those episodes were better than most of the fricking bad batch episodes. The overall plotting in TCW was so much better. Every episode or arc had a unique and interesting plot, and each episode had something to say. There was never a "formula". Each arc was something different. How many times have we gotten a fricking monster of the week on The Bad Batch? Too many to count. And that's not even the end of it. There's another episode coming where Wrecker will fight an alligator in the episode with Fennec Shand...
Glad someone said it. Dave is fricking lazy and has been doing this since Rebels. This show has the exact same pattern as Rebels. TCW even had some sort of message in each episode while The Bad Batch it was just Hunter and Omega having the same argument over whether Omega should tag along on missions or not. Ironically, this episode touched on how Crosshair warned Hunter about Omega yet she will get captured again soon or at least because they aren't being careful the Empire will take it out on Pabu's citizens.
I already knew that they won't wrap everything up since the trailer. They'll leave most of the plot points unfinished and hope to wrap it up in a decade time.
>Dave is fricking lazy and has been doing this since Rebels. This show has the exact same pattern as Rebels. TCW even had some sort of message in each episode while The Bad Batch it was just Hunter and Omega having the same argument over whether Omega should tag along on missions or not.
Because TBB is a show about a small team (basically a family), just like Rebels, not an anthology show about the entire Republic like TCW, where you could have 1 episode where Padme and Chuchi do something political on Coruscant, 1 episode where Mace Windu slashes 9000 Separatist droids in half within a minute, 1 episode where Obi-Wan hangs out with Satine while their son is sent somewhere far away, 1 episode where Ahsoka shows off her lack of underwear when 501st fights some bugs on planet Shittonea, etc.
>Because TBB is a show about a small team (basically a family)
Then focus on just that. TBB is nothing but cameos and references every single week. Rebels was the same when they said that the show would focus on only the group but then they forced TCW into it by the second season.
I don't see the logic. The show being about a family isn't a problem, the problem is boring fricking plots and most of the episodes being about nothing. Stop writing the plots that all involve giant monsters that are immune to blaster fire! The good episodes of the show didn't have those! Like the Ryloth episodes, Coruscant episodes, S2 finale, Crosshair episodes, etc. The writers seem to be fricking aware of it, judging by that line. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad and annoying.
>the problem is boring fricking plots and most of the episodes being about nothing.
The messed up part is, this is the last season, we don't have time for monster of the week bs, we've got a mad scientist making crazy shit and are using clones as test subjects, we've got Saw and his Partisans starting warfare with the newly born Empire and we've got the makings of a clone rebellion with Rex as the leader. There is so much going on within the time period right now, the show needs to focus on that and, again, this is the final season. Why tf are we doing monster of the week/filler episodes?
Filoni is barely working on this show, if at all.
It still has his fingerprints all over it
in season 1 definitely, season 2 is more detached (although there is confirmation of him working on it)
for season 3 theres nothing to support hin working on it, and it shows with the 5 episodes we have
Well, I guess this was Lucas' influence since he is a very creative guy, though it also lead to some of the fricking worst episodes in that series.
I'd rather watch the D-Squad arc on repeat than 90% of Disney Star Wars, unironically.
I'll be honest, that arc was one of the rare moments I enjoyed the goofy comedy style of Star Wars. I guess it helps if there is no character with an annoying accent.
What happened to TBB threads? During S1 there were several threads about it at once, there were a lot of memes and OC in them, during S2 there was at least 1 thread on this board, and now it's like no one cares, I hardly could find this one in a catalog, what happened? This season is good so far, maybe only the 2nd episode (with Hunter and Wrecker with those teen clones) felt kinda filler-esque, why did you Cinemaphilemrades stop caring about this show?
the last thread had 400 odd replies before dying anon, wait until the burgers wake up
Because it became boring really fast and wasn't what was advertised. People thought it was gonna be some kino commando show in the Imperial era as advertised originally:
Notice something about this trailer? No fricking kid.
Then people actually watched it. And it was the usual babysitting daycare Disney stuff. Many were thrown off by the fricking kid. Then Cid came along and the episodes became really boring and formulaic for the most part, and most people just fell off.
Season 2 was much worse in that regard, with a few standout Crosshair episodes, Coruscant episodes and the finale, and the rest being the usual boring stuff.
By Season 3 I guess there's not enough people left to care.
slop
I’ll just say it could have been worse
Omega COULD have stayed back from the mission and there’d be a B plot of her and the black kid fricking around on Pabu
I really feel like this episode is emblematic of all the problems with the series. It has so many good character moments for Crosshair and Hunter but they are so afraid of being "boring" that they have to invent some bad side mission and throw a big monster in the middle of it in order to have that conversation. Not to mention that they drag Wrecker and Echo into it despite not having anything going on for three seasons.
This should have been Crosshair, Hunter and Omega just talking on the island while the B plot is some Tantiss drama or whatever except another brainless monster.
If there is one place that knows the location of Tantiss, it'd be the old jedi archives
do you think the show would do that? having the bad batch try and infiltrate the now imperial palace?
So wait the temple was turned into a palace in nu-lore? I thought it was just kinda left desolated and ruined. Especially by this point in the timeline.
>nu-lore
Isn't it was turned into palace in EU in first place?
IDK the only piece of star wars media I personally interacted with that showed the temple after order 66 was TFU and in that it was just left as a ruin.
Reatrds, after Order 66 Palpatine wanted to turn the Jedi Temple into a new Sith Temple (which would be similar to the old one buried under the Jedi Temple), but never got around to it because Project Necromancer was much more important to him.
Palpatine didn't need to build a Sith temple because there was literally already one left untouched in the depths of Coruscant though he did convert the Jedi Temple into the Imperial Palace.
Not that the comics matter, but Jocasta nuked them.
Was that planet Hoth? I forgot.
This is the last season and there's a bunch of big deal plot shit going on. They don't have time for this pointless filler.
>pointless filler
Shows aren't just about big plot points. There needs to be moments to breath for character progression. I think its fine that this episode was mostly just about Crosshair and Hunter getting over their beef.
>its an alien parody episode
>its a we have to save this character from capture again episode
>its a good soldiers obey orders episode
>its a mind chip episode
>its an alien parody episode
It's incredible how many times Bad Batch referenced aliens. That episode with the kinds in the jungle had the lab LITERALLY look like a xenomorph hive.
It really says something when the best episodes of this series are the ones that involve OHMEEGUH either very little or not at all.
>echo still has no new arm
I understand that guy's plight now
It's especially egregious when every single figure of him gives him at least one additional arm or attachment like a big grapple claw or an extending hand. It's a shame. I really liked Echo in Clone Wars, but it's just sad to see him reduced to a walking scomp who can't offer much else to the team but grumpy complaints. He could have been much more versatile if they let him.
You don't undestand, if he get arm that resemble functional arm, people with alternative body conditions will not be able to relate to him anymore!!!
man they really did my homie Echo dirty
feels like they brought him in just because it was part of the original BB idea without thinking if they actually have a story to tell first
>not sandworm on the powdery planet
i'm just reminded that i should stop waiting on my friends and catch an early dunc2 showing
So what, they just kept Crosshair's old armor lying around for just such an occasion?
they never got rid of it and got the comms device off it to give to omega back in season 1, they had it in the ship the entire time
What were they gonna do? Sell it?
'Novelty item! Modified clone armor! Not like you can get surplus suits for practically fricking nothing and modify it yourself!'
It was alright. I WISH the show moved onto the clone rebellion shit already but we've got a good 5 episodes before they even touch it.
I expect another shitty adventure next week.
Where is Echo anyway?
In episode 5
What killed the hype?
If there was any to begin with?
This show never had any hype to begin with, just a small but dedicated fandom.
The filler bullshit when the interesting parts are only touched upon and then momentum is lost. That and the show is trying to make " Somehow, Palpatine returned." make sense and while I like Hemlock and his mad scientist ways, he's rarely shown and I quite frankly don't care about the Sequel Trilogy and SW writers trying of fix the mess that is the ST. Valiant effort, but still, I care not for the fricked up future that the ST brings to the table. Hemlock should just be making imperial abominations and experiment on the clones due to them being Empire property and nobody missing them, and the fallout amongst the bad batch and other clones in seeing their brothers be hurt like that.
Mandalorian season 3 shat the bed, Mando being popular was the only thing keeping the rest of the shows going, you watched the other shows because Mando made you crave more Star Wars, now that even it sucks, why bother with the rest?
I never thought Mandalorian was *that* good. It was Saturday morning cartoon in live-action, and baby yoda was such an obvious, manipulative marketing ploy, that I felt like a fricking cattle every time he did something cute, with the show expecting me to be awed by him.
Here's the best scene of the episode.
Crosshair is almost too fricking based to belong in a Star Wars thing.
And this seemed a little too similar to Dark Disciple.
>“I know,” Ventress said. “But you did stop lying.” She shuddered deeply. Vos felt his heart crack. Her fingers dug into his arm tightly and her gaze bored into his. “Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to…to pick the right path.” She smiled sadly. “Even if that choice comes a little late.”
I also had the same thought of that exwct quote from dark disciple when I saw that scene
I was really hoping Hunter was going to say something along of the lines of
>I have regrets too, Crosshair
>I regret abandoning you when you needed us
Damn, bros
I larfed despite myself when Crosshair stepped out of the ship and that same damn ice culture is there to make him feel
Jokes aside, Crosshair quietly mourning Mayday was the highlight for me
F
pretty pointless episode overall but that's to be expected of a 15 episode season
Kinda interesting that this episode aired year after The Outpost.
Christ, has it been that long?
I could see it being intentional
wtf i thought it was like half a year ago
In March 8 Outpost will be a year old.
Omega looks super cute this episode
Tantiss was her best look by far but this episode’s outfit (on Pabu) was really good too
Crosshair is far and away the best and most interesting character in this show.
Pretty much. Hunter is a reluctant dad, whose entire character is "MUH OMEGA".
Wrecker is a big dumb guy with the heart of gold. He never really evolved beyond his initial archetype.
Echo is just there. The writers did absolutely fricking nothing with him. So they wrote him out of the show in the middle of S2, and now he pops up every now and then as a guest character.
Crosshair is the only one with an arc, depth and dimensions. Tech was somewhat developed, but not as much. I'd say he was just a bit more fleshed out beyond his basic "autistic nerd" archetype, which helped making his death feel impactful.
The most baffling thing is that Crosshair had only TWO episodes in S2. Two out of sixteen. Fricking insane. And he underwent such a development, compared to the rest of the characters. I wish we'd seen more of Imperial Crosshair, instead of fricking Wanda Sykes and other crap for Cid.
And both of those Crosshair episodes are the shining highlights of an otherwise forgettable second season. The Outpost is probably the best episode of the whole series.
speaking of wrecker being a bug dumb guy
...why is he dumb in the first episode?
hes actually unga bunga caveman level of stupid, in every other episode (including TCW S7) he actually has some intellect
Maybe it was because in the first episode they were still fighting battle droids in what was basically a mock war so Wrecker treats it like a big game. Its only when shit starts getting actually crazy does he chill out and start taking shit seriously.
its not that, its in casual talk
tech explains to him how long its been since they were last on kamino and he acts like he understood none of it
>hes actually unga bunga caveman level of stupid
Because he's big and stronk. Therefore, his muscle mass is balanced out by him being a childlike idiot. Same way Tech was super smart, but physically the weakest.
Is Crosshair the real MC?
Always was.
Its not even close. My interest in the show, or anything Star Wars related, will immediate evaporate if Crosshair dies.
I honestly believe he is the most interesting character in all of Star Wars. I can't think of another character who has had such a compelling character arc.
This feels like it came straight out of an anime with a "thousand year old little girl"
I just want someone to kill them all but I doubt I'll get it.
I guess Crosshair will repaint his armor with the bird on it or something in tribute to Mayday
If its a new small symbol on his shoulder guard or chest plate then that would be kino.
If his armor ends up all ugly and fricked up like Hunter's and Wreaker's I'll be sad.
>Mando turned to shit
>Obi-wan is shit
>Ahsoka is shit
>Book of Bubba Fat is shit
>Half of Tales of the Jedi was shit
>Only Andor was good, with Bad Batch being decent
Masterful Gambit by Dave Filoni I see
Filoni was never good by himself, he was just being carried by the good works of others. It's so funny watching TCW cope constantly about how "perfect" that show was when it took at least 3 seasons to become watchable.
TCW was good from the start. And Filoni never wrote any of it, so... I am not sure how that's supposed to be some kind of ownage you're making it out to be.
on one hand, Crosshair is totally going to die as a final act of redemption
on the other hand, I want him to live because he is by far the best character and Crosshair doing merc wetwork would be kino
That would boring as frick and gay as Hell if they went that tired fricking route for Crosshair.
What if Crosshair is the only survivor and raises Omega in honor of his lost brothers.
Nothing connected to Disney is capable of creating such kino.
I stoped caring in season 1.
And yet you care enough to show up here
It was a good breather episode. The breath before the plunge, as well as getting some character bonding out of the way and setting up the storming of Tantiss.
Sleeping and cuddling with Ohmayguh
.....crosshair had tech's voice in the episode just after hunter fell down the hole.
that was weird.
No one's ever really gone
I think it's because they have the same voice actor!
possible, i guess he forgot to switch the type of voice he was doing.
Or because Crosshair doesn't usually shout, so when he does it sounds closer to Tech, whose voice is higher pitched by default.
One weird thing about the credits:
Why are there so many executive producers for the Bad Batch? It takes quite a while for it to reach the director and writer. (Filoni isn't among the latter, by the way.)
And Kathleen Kennedy isn't among the former. Which is why animated Star Wars remains agenda-free.
I don't know about that, Wanda Sykes annoys the frick out of me whenever she appears.
Phee is just regular annoying side character material
She doesn’t force the show to revolve around her and is subject to lame morals as everyone else in the episode she features most prominently
I'm not the only one that watches this show like it's a DND campaign, right?
uhhh
you might be
Well the show has made me think that it could be an RPG a few times.
I did have the thought that this show is like if you had a DnD party where everyone dumped their points into a single stat
STR - Wrecker
DEX - Crosshair
CON - Echo
INT - Tech
WiS - Hunter
CHA - Omega
>CUN - Omega
ftfy.
Shouldn't Echo and Hunter switch? Hunter seems more like a CON kind of guy imho
Perception is tied to Wisdom in DnD and Hunter's main thing is being able to find stuff good.
See
Also Echo survived torture and mutilation, suggesting HP
*high HP fml
Crosshair is the best Filoni OC and I'm tired of pretending he's not
If Phee gets to call Tech "Brown Eyes" shouldn't Tech be allowed to call her "Brown Skin"?
>Hey, you can't go around saying stuff like that Tech!
>I don't understand. I made the assumption that you referred to me as "Brown Eyes" because you have a fondness for the hue of my eyes so I thought it appropriate to provide you with an similar epithet that alluded to my fondness for the over-abundance of melanin in your skin pigmentation
Then Phee's panties get absolutely soaked from Tech's autism rizz.
>me and the bad b***h i pulled by being autistic
Brown pussy
dave filoni sure likes underage girls, doesn't he?
I can't wait for the 12 year old Nomi Sunrider adaptation.
It was Lucas who made Ahsoka show that much skin
Bless him
next week we will get two episodes at once