Full Series The Bad Batch 3.09 - The Harbinger - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

10 cause I give everything this show does a 10

 

That they wont explain it, i could see it in Tales of the Jedi season 2

 

Would you mind repeating that?

 

I don’t think they’ll ever address it on screen.

 

At minimum a refference and explaination

 

I always call it how I see it, you know this

You were RIGHT and I was WRONG

 

What I think is going to happen is they’ll put out a comic or novel that will explain it and then never speak of DD on screen. I don’t think we’ll even see Quinlan Vos in future stories with Ventress either.

 

Quinlan Vos is important for their The Path stories and with Ventress. So we will see him with The Path in animation probably.

 

Come to think of it... All this Mount Tantiss, looking for Omega business. Big hustle. Palpatine wants to become immortal. He knows Ventress was killed by Dooku, and she was dead for months, and now she's back, somehow. Palps should go straight to Dathomir and find Ventress instead. Oh, and someone should tell Anakin too. He should get Padme's body to Dathomir and resurrect her.

 

Hold on, I was on a phone call and didn’t catch everything you were saying. Something about me being RIGHT and you being WRONG? Please confirm.

 

As we saw here in this episode they don’t need Quinlan to tell Ventress stories, so he’s not really important. To the stuff with the Path, sure, but we don’t know that that is going to included in any future animated series. It could very well just live in books, comics and Jedi Survivor games.

 

This was just a single episode with Ventress. And i think The Path are getting more important. Live action, game and such so far. They have teased Quinlan Vos here and there.

 

I gave it a 9/10 just because I like Ventress' character. To no one's surprise, of course Fennic's "mysterious" intel person is revealed as Ventress. She somehow finds their base and tracks them down; knowing about Omega's unique abilities. Nothing is revealed as to what she's been doing or where she's been (wasn't expecting any hint at the DD story but at least something regarding where she was after Order 66 and the Empire's emergence would've been nice. I don't recall her having any animalistic powers; I guess nowadays just about every Jedi or Sith can have that ability now. I guess, going by the shared Twitter feed's account, she likely won't be showing up again in the show. So it was nothing more than a tease. She mentioned that she "has a few lives left", giving some Easter Egg-like clue as to what happened to her. It's frustrating that it'll be a while before we get some clue as to what happened to her before this episode as well as what her fate is. For all we know, maybe we'll see a LA version of her in the Mandalorian era. Grab those torches and pitchforks while they're hot!

 

From memory, they teased Quinlan in an episode of OWK and …a comic from a few years ago. I wouldn’t consider that massive evidence that Quinlan’s destined to headline the next major animated series, especially since they seem to be trying their best to ignore his last major canon appearance.

 

Well, this episode was very pleasantly lit, such that I could see what was going on at pretty much all times. A few sections were pretty dark, but those sections took place in a cave so it was appropriately dark, and more importantly, it wasn't so dark that I couldn't see what was going on. So, overall, this episode was a big win.

That was my review of the episode.

As a side note: It would be so nice if these writers could keep the lore straight. Per TPM, Midi-chlorians are "in your cells"; all of your cells, not just your blood cells (and they certainly aren't extracellular, which is what "in your blood" would usually be taken to imply).

I'm guessing that the story how Ventress got resurrected will be told in a future book. She died in a book (I'm gathering--I haven't read it), so it would be appropriate if she was resurrected in a book. That way cartoon fans don't have to worry about that plot point. I guess book fans will also learn that way how she got to be in friently terms with Fennic. Nice to see Ventress again, by the way! That was possible because, you know, she was properly lit.

 

Not headline it but appear in it as. A recurring character. Ventress would healine it.

 

I never wanted Ventress to die...but I would at least like and explanation (with a flashback) on why she is. I am assuming Something something something Nightsister.

I did like that she has her old style curved hilt lightsaber....I am assuming she simply built a new one. And I liked her new ship. Yet another ship that needs to be put into a new cross section book.

 

Because midichlorians are organisms living within every one of those quadrillion beings. In our society, we’ve pretty much mapped the human body. We know which bacteria and such are living in us and on us. And we haven’t even developed technology like hyperdrive or a battle station capable of destroying an entire planet. I’d expect at least AZI-3 would know what a midichlorian is. He’s a med droid! He scanned Crosshair’s hand and diagnosed him with PTSD.

I suspect the explanation is something like you describe, that the general public wouldn’t have heard of midichlorians because only a Jedi would know about them, and I can live with that, but I’m still left scratching my head .

 

We still don't know what Ashoka was doing during the OT

 

It may be that the assassin program just reprogrammed Crosshair to an extent just like it "programmed" the clones who completed the program. A major overarching component of the Clone subplot from TCW was training and experience vs programming. That arguably continues with The Bad Batch insisting they aren't good at following orders. The Bad Batch might as well bookend that as well.

 

It's better that way.

 

You're answering the issue yourself. "We know which bacteria and such are living in us and on us." OK, so can you (assuming you're a member of the general public and not a microbiologist) name a few of these microorganisms, without looking them up? Most people can't. We can assume it's the same in SW; ppl might be aware that there are microorganisms living in and on them, but they won't know what those are called.

 

I have no issue with all Jedi or even Sith being able to commune with animals. The force is in everything. So why should there be a barrier between them and non-self aware beings?