Star Wars The Bad Batch Brings Bounty Hunter Battles and Big Revelations

Even although many individuals agree Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars film, it’s one of the crucial consequential. The newest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch dug deep into that movie, with characters and revelations that may get even probably the most informal Star Wars followers speculating.

The ninth episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch was referred to as “Bounty Lost,” which type of spoils what occurs on the finish of the episode. Cad Bane loses Omega. But to whom and why? Well, that’s the place issues get fascinating.

Though a lot of the episode didn’t heart on the Bad Batch, the present known as “The Bad Batch,” in order that’s the place issues began. The group is reeling from shedding Omega to the bounty hunter and need to monitor him down, however they’re being hunted by former chum, Crosshair. He’s in sizzling pursuit, trying badass as hell in his bandages, however simply as he knocks out their rear deflector shields, the Batch lastly get away. That battle is way from over.

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Meanwhile, Omega is trapped on Cad Bane’s ship. As she tries to control his droid Todo 360 (voiced by Seth Green), Bane tells the Kaminoans that he was profitable in securing the asset. The chief, Lama Su, senses that Nala Se is sympathetic to Omega and gained’t do what must be finished, so Su sends Taun We to retrieve Omega from Bane. Taun We was on The Clone Wars however first appeared in Attack of the Clones and was one of the crucial outstanding Kaminoans in that movie. So she’s fairly recognizable, however apparently additionally malleable. Lama Su explains that after they get Omega and extract her DNA, they’re going to terminate her. Nala Se is just not happy.

The purpose why the Kaminoans need Omega again, and are keen to kill her, was then revealed. Turns out Omega is a direct genetic clone of Jango Fett. While all of the Clones are clones of Jango, most of them had been modified to be obedient and age faster. All of them, however one. We know him as Boba Fett, a direct genetic clone who ages usually. The Kaminoans, nonetheless, referred to as him Alpha and apparently made a second comparable clone, which they named Omega. That mainly means Omega is the dual sibling of Boba Fett, an actual copy of Jango Fett, and the one out there supply the Kaminoans must Jango’s direct, precious DNA. It’s a large revelation, however its implications needed to take a again seat, not less than for a second.

Cad Bane’s ship lands on the rendezvous with Taun We, however Omega is ready to outsmart Todo, escape, and phone the Bad Batch. Before they’ll get a lock on her, Bane recaptures her, solely to listen to some mysterious blaster hearth. We know it may’t be the Bad Batch. No, it’s Fennic Shand (Ming Na Wen), there to gather Omega, who has killed Taun We and brought the credit she was bringing to Cad Bade. (I’m unsure I’m able to let Taun We go, so after scripting this, I could go placed on some Sarah McLachlan and have myself a superb cry: “I will remember you…”)

Fennic proposes Bane give her Omega in change for the credit, which looks as if a great plan for Bane. Why would he need to maintain Omega? Wasn’t he simply doing this for the credit? So when Todo steals the credit from Fennic, kickstarting a battle between the 2, I used to be a bit of confused as to why these to bounty hunters couldn’t have come to a mutual understanding. Things acquired clearer, although, when Todo dropped the credit into the abyss of the planet they’re on and now, Omega is the one collateral Bane has.

A battle ensues—one Cad Bane swears Fennic isn’t quiet skilled sufficient for (a pleasant wink to him being a grizzled previous veteran bounty hunter and she or he a brand new child on the block). But, ultimately Fennic is ready to knock Bane unconscious with a detonator and go after Omega. Omega is in some type of bizarre laboratory with what seems to be like bacta tanks crammed with some type of beings. It’s very season two of The Mandalorian, Palapatine’s clone of Snoke type of stuff. And whereas we don’t discover out precisely what these beings are or what they’re doing (although our guess is that they’re Kaminoans), it’s a reminder to Omega she doesn’t need to turn into some type of experiment. At least not anymore. And Fennic says she may also help with that, however after Fennic betrayed Omega a number of episodes again, clearly Omega doesn’t belief her.

Omega escapes once more, this time heading for a sequence of flight pods that’ll get her out of the scenario. Cad Bane is as soon as once more awake although and battling Fennic whereas Todo is making an attempt to cease Omega. In a genius transfer, Omega jumps on Todo and rides him right down to the platform with the flight pods and is ready to shoot away. Meanwhile, Fennic and Bane combat to a different standstill, nearly as if Fennic was doing that simply to maintain Bane away from Omega; later, we discover out that’s precisely what she was doing. She was employed by Nala Se to maintain Omega away from Taun We and, thereby, Lama Su. Fennic Shand did her job.

Meanwhile the Bad Batch have lastly arrived and intercepted Omega’s pod. She’s shaken up and confused as to why she’s inflicting such a fuss, which is after they clarify her origins to her. Omega thinks the bounty hunters will maintain coming and coming till she’s been captured. But Hunter tells her to not fear. He guarantees she’ll by no means return to Kamino.

It’s humorous that one of the crucial thrilling episodes of The Bad Batch but had nearly no Bad Batch in it. That’s as a result of seeing two bounty hunters in an epic battle is simply so damned entertaining. Not to say that bombshell revelation of Omega’s true origins. On the opposite hand, one thing appears to be brewing right here. Don’t neglect that Fennic Shand was saved by Boba Fett in The Mandalorian and have become his trusted affiliate, all over the tip of the second season—and now we’ve seen her work together with and be sympathetic to his an identical twin sibling. Does Fennic have some deep seeded allegiance to the Fetts? Is it doable Star Wars: The Bad Batch is simply an elaborate Book of Boba Fett prequel? We hope not, however admittedly the tantalizing prospects of Fennic’s devotion to the siblings and a possible reunion appear ripe for exploration over the subsequent few weeks.

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