[7.1/10] Three seasons in, and I think I’ve just seen one too many Bad Batch search and rescue missions. This isn’t bad, and the show’s creative team knows how to put together some nice sequences. But we’ve just seen this sort of thing so many times that it starts to lose its impact.
Case in point -- I appreciate the blend between the immediate goal and the larger goal. Hunter, Crosshair, and Wrecker need to rescue Omega. To do that, they need to find Tantiss. To get a bead on Tantiss, they have to spring Admiral Rampart from an Imperial prison. There’s a plain cause and effect you can trace here, even if Crosshair’s excuses for not bringing up the lead earlier seem pretty thin and plot-convenient.
And the business at the Imperial prison is solid. (Am I crazy or do they use a very similar location in The Mandalorian?) I especially enjoyed our heroes commandeering a giant Imperial tank and barging their way across a bridge littered with Imperial defenses. The visual flair alone is enough to get the blood pumping.
But I don’t know. All of this seems like a fetch quest before the real business begins later in the season. Sassy Admiral Rampart and his quid pro quo adds a little bit of flavor to the proceedings. But more of this episode comes off like a box the show needs to check along the way to the Bad Batch storming Tantiss to find Omega, rather than something essential to the story or worthy on its own merits.
The glimpses we see of Omega back on Tantiss have a little more juice, but even they don’t tell us much that we don’t already know. I can appreciate the hesitation in Dr. Karr’s eyes with what she’s complicit in, and the mild shock of Omega going into The Vault. But even here, this is more of a tease for future events than anything important in the here and now.
Overall, this is not a bad episode by any stretch, but not one I think will stick in my memory for very long either.
Really liked that one. Great action sequence and the animation is just amazing.
So, Omega joins the children - her blood actually helps transfer midichlorians... so she and the force sensitive kids are going to be used as guinea pigs.
Meanwhile, the batch tries to find Tantiss - Crosshair leads them to a criminal whom they're making a deal with: getting him off a prison colony in exchange for the location of Tantiss. Felt a bit like a filler. And I realize Crosshair has to deal with a lot of issues, but I didn't quite understand why he didn't volunteer that guy before. Maybe he just needs the extra incentive now that Omega's on Tantiss again... but that doesn't feel right.
And unfortunately we don't (yet?) learn more of that Empire agent whom I'd love to be Tech. But he just delivers Omega to Hemlock, and leaves... unsatisfying.
Shout by whos_ur_buddhaBlockedParent2024-04-12T05:50:20Z
We are 44 episodes in and it’s the same shit over and over. Omega is special. She’s on the run. She’s hiding. She gets found. She gets captured. She needs to be saved. She escapes. She’s special. She’s on the run. She’s hissing. She gets captured. She needs to rescued. Fucking boring.