The Bad Batch The Bad Batch 2.10 - Retrieval - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

I'm ready for whatever they have next, all these side quests have made our heroes more interesting. With The Bad Batch being my only other weekly TV offering, it's a nice change of pace from the emotional seriousness of The Last of Us. Next week our heroes will be competing with The Mandalorian as well, I'm still not finished with this show yet!

 

I like the idea of a former Techno Union mine being taken over after the war because it's another example of showing the aftermath of the Clone Wars and giving the galaxy a sense of lived-in reality. That is something this show does really well.

That said, this episode was ho-hum for me. It never made me care about the plight of the miners, the villain was uninspired, and the plot was cliché (The miners overthrew their tyrannical boss? Would would have thought!). I was hoping the two-parter nature of this arc was going to lead into something special, but it turned out to be just another mission of the week.

I think what's frustrating about this show is that we all know the Bad Batch will eventually join up with Rex and, once they do, the show will likely pick up. It's like if the OT was a TV show and you spent the first two seasons following Luke having random adventures on Tatooine, all the while knowing that Obi-Wan is there, trying to convince him to learn the ways of the Force and come with him to Alderaan.

 

Congrats to Omega, she met her first Solo-esque bad boy.

Really liked the droids' design, it reminded of the Cylons.

 

I was wondering about that huge deposit: Who does it belong to? The Batch stumbled upon it after they left Cid's mine, and I don't think it's connected to hers. Was it just abandoned?

 

Eh, this episodes plot was cliche and overdone, definitely a step down from some of the previous episodes IMHO.

 

Benni: "Hey, if you ever need a thief I owe you one." Foreshadowing?

 

Yawn. Predictable, dull, cliched, and heavy-handed moralizing.

Was anyone else annoyed that the show-makers went to a big effort to disguise the thief and make him seem mysterious and important, and he turned out to be nobody we'd ever seen or heard of, and might never hear from again?

 

Well that was lame. Zzzzzz

 

Well the follow-up to last week's cliffhanger wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. I gave it a 6/10. So the ship's thief is a kid who lives in a sort of Oliver Twist-esque theme where Fagin is represented by Maako (sp). The ship would've been lost forever had it not been for the Gonk droid that Omega located with a tracking tweak. The story played out sort of predictably, so long as you picked up the hints. Maako was keeping the earnings to himself, and when Benny finds out, he uses that as fuel to rally the troops and evoke revolution.

 

This episode reminded me of BTAS: The Underdwellers and The Forgotten.

 

Another good episode

 

I don't remember and I am certainly not going to back to re-watch but didn't they bag some really high grade stuff last week or was that the stuff that blew up?

 

The good thing about this show is that it's never going to spoil or ruin anything else. They may be 'special' but they could all get wiped out by a stray asteroid and no one would notice. That's probably why I enjoy it, it's 'elevator music' Star Wars.

 

That may be so; until you see a grown up Omega showing up in the next TBOBF season.

 

Recycling ideas from TBOBF? At first, I wasn't impressed with this episode. I built it up into something larger. That it just wasn't. The Bad Batch plays things pretty safe compared to TCW. I mean if Anakin and Ahsoka had rocked up on this place in The Clone Wars this Macco guy would have ended up impaled on a lightsaber by the end of it when Anakin lost his **** on him.

I would have been interested in seeing what Echo would have thought about coming to a former Techno Union mine. This would have been a cooler detail with that added context. I'm not sure conditions would have been much better then if the atrocities on Ryloth and Skako Minor are anything to go by. That probably made it easy for a crime boss to get control. But its just something mentioned and I am really missing Echo now.

It doesn't help that "The Theif" is such a vanilla or uninteresting character. I like lovable idiots or losers like Lux and Syril and he wasn't it. This was probably unfortunate because Omega was supposed to bounce off him as a more interesting character and she is way more interesting. She is realizing what a harsh a messed up place the galaxy is even without the Empire. This is the same thing folks were feeling when they were over the scapegoated Jedi and Palpatine pulled the noose.

Gonky saved the day! Really it was nice to see The Bad Batch win. And not just win but they were way OP opponents for the Crime Boss even without the mob that forced Macco's attempt at, "If I'm going and you're coming with me to hell" while channeling Zira from The Lion King 2. When the Bad Batch is working for themselves or helping others their skills shine. Just like in the second episode of the season when Tech helped the old man on Serenno.

Cid is not on the level of this Crime Boss so I don't think they are interchangeable. But there was a time last season when The Bad Batch was getting jerked around working just to afford food. They have to realize that she can't really make them do anything. She doesn't own them like she thinks she does. They would be just as OP if they decided to take Cid down. I don't think it'll ever come to this. I'm still banking on a western style standoff in the bar when Cid betrays albeit forced.

Honestly, this field trip to look for exploding wonder ore feels sketchy, like a diversion or setup if there was an active mine on the planet the whole time. And who would have sold Cid the little one with one deposit? Was Cid in on something? Was she in on something with the boss here? Or did she send them on a wild goose chase?

Both Omega and Tech are awake now. Omega still doesn't know what she can't do and because of that she'll still want The Bad Batch to help everyone and Tech likes using his skills to help people. Hopefully, they'll lead the metamorphosis because The Bad Batch doesn't need Cid. Wrecker is fine. It's Hunter that is still a problem cool as he was when he caught Omega and was intimidating the thief. Hunter needs some sort of major shock to get him out of this high-functioning heroic blue screen of death he has been in.

6/10... slightly more than half-good stuff. I think better is coming. These guys are on their way to becoming the Star Wars equivalent of The Rescue Rangers. Chip is almost as boring as Hunter most of the time.

 

A good episode 7/10.

 

Well so far Crosshair and Chuchi episodes were the best.. this one is once again a bit meh but at the end of the day I'm not the target audience for this show to get excited about that kind of stories.. still hoping we will get more episodes like those 3 as they were stellar!

 

I can't vote for it yet. I need to watch it again, but my first viewing did not hold my attention.

 

I think the main problem is that Crosshair and Chuchi ( when you understand where the story is going and also showing the Republic mutating into the Empire) were WAY BETTER episodes than the rest, everything else feels like just a fill in. Even if you consider this a show for children, the repitiveness and the lack of stakes of most episodes make it a boring watch.
One thing i noticed and maybe it's just me, but in may app early in the season when the episodes drop they were proeminently showed in the start page banner; now, 10 episodes later, there's nothing there, no emphasis , not even the information about a new episode.
My feeling is that the ratings/minutes views for this (deservedly so) are horrible and Disney expect this to be over soon.