Star Wars The Bad Batch Batch 301 302 and 303 Podcast

[00:00:00] This is the Bad Batch Podcast on TV Podcast Industries. We're back for season 3 of the Bad Batch, episodes 1, 2 and 3.

[00:00:08] There is no we. And there is no escape. I've already tried.

[00:00:16] Every stronghold has a weak point. Maybe I can convince Imri to help. She's one of us.

[00:00:22] Not every clone is your ally. You trust too easily.

[00:01:21] Plop plop. Because you know he was going to say something worse.

[00:01:25] He was.

[00:01:26] He was.

[00:01:27] That just covers up what he really said.

[00:01:28] Yeah, well that's true.

[00:01:30] Good stuff.

[00:01:31] But yes, we're back with the Bad Batch for the final season of this animated show from

[00:01:35] Star Wars.

[00:01:36] Nice to be back in the galaxy far, far away once again.

[00:01:39] Yeah, absolutely.

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[00:04:22] I don't think that's a good choice.

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[00:04:26] That's a good one. The shuttle crashes, but as it's outside the secure boundary of the Imperial Facility and the troopers aboard are left to the planet's wild and dangerous creatures. Separated from the rest of the Bad Batch, Amiga is being held at Dr. Hemlock's lab on Mount Antis. Every day she works with Dr. Emery Carr to take blood from the clones and herself for

[00:05:42] analysis by the Kaminoan it's kind of like,

[00:07:04] it's like she's got special privileges almost like it's one too many. It's just to keep everyone off guard. It's just the one sharp by the strong people that just goes wildly to the left. Yeah.

[00:08:20] It's poo, poo, poo.

[00:08:21] Cross those shaky hands just getting an extra one off I guess.

[00:08:25] Exactly, exactly. almost rubbing his hands with expecting no recovery team for you guys. But yeah, it's kind of it's interesting. The fact that I realized that this planet was called Wayland and it's like Wayland Yutani, like from Alien. Exactly.

[00:09:40] And I'm like, OK, and there's all these monsters out there.

[00:09:43] And there is actually another the next episode.

[00:10:44] as they're attacked by some kind of unknown creature. So like ultimately, yes, it's a fairly inhospitable world.

[00:10:50] It seems out of this kind of secure boundary

[00:10:55] that they have the facility in.

[00:10:57] Yeah, yeah, we kind of see the native creatures

[00:11:00] later on in the episode as well.

[00:11:01] So they aren't very friendly

[00:11:03] unless treated really, really well.

[00:11:05] The Lurkerhounds.

[00:11:06] Yeah, I guess you to see where this goes. And then it just cuts straight back into the main story. And I'm like, interesting. Yeah. Well, absolutely. And it's really straight in. And I have to say really great animation and scene,

[00:12:22] just to remind you of how good the animation is.

[00:12:25] Yes.

[00:12:26] The moment where that Imperial shuttle, That's how the last season ended. They were going to go out on their mission to do them. There's four people on the ship, which you would suspect is Wrecker, Hunter, Rex, maybe, and Echo. It would be the four that you'd suspect that are coming here. So the fact that you have them with voices that would sound very similar, of course, to the batch, because they all have similar voices, right? So the fact that you would have that, you'd have them thinking that they're going to get

[00:13:43] past the security to get onto Tantus and for Amiga. Yeah. Eat, sleep, rave, repeat. Well. But less raving, I guess. Eat, sleep, take blood samples. Samples. Deliver blood sample, have blood sample destroyed. Repeat. Yeah, it's not as great a fat boy slim kind of track. It's not. It's not.

[00:15:00] I had every day is exactly the same.

[00:15:01] The Nana's nails track in my head the whole time.

[00:15:03] Yeah, exactly.

[00:15:04] It's more that freedom despite being a set of Omega's cell with Stormtrooper stamping on her doll. That's Lego for kids, you know, from this episode. It is really dark. I'd agree with you guys. oh, okay, I think this is potentially what they're doing. They're not just scooby-doingizing it. It's just like, oh, it was the guy down the road. There's a lot more there that we can take from it. And when, it's, you know, it was really sort of low at the end of season two, though, certainly with tech being she's like, you know, it's not like that. It's nothing like that. But we did on Camino.

[00:21:40] Exactly.

[00:21:41] And she goes, the specimens aren't clones.

[00:21:45] Yes. What's your C levels in your blood? Yeah. What's your mcount in the blood? Yeah.

[00:23:00] Excellent. Perfect. Yeah. I know. Great little way of getting rid of metachlorians.

[00:23:05] Exactly. this episode is written, it's pulled away pretty quickly because effectively the guy who's supposed to be minding there, the droid that's supposed to be minding the creatures while she's away, has decided that he's going to kill it because he feels that it's developing an emotional attachment which won't be useful to the Empire so he's going to kill it, you know. Again,

[00:24:21] it's another one of those things about this episode which is increasing the depression that

[00:25:23] celebratory ending on a plans of Ewoks.

[00:25:28] Yeah, I get the feeling that's what they're doing. They they're the the first three episodes are going to be that very somber, very depressing kind of style to

[00:25:40] basically go, you are about to hit the lowest of the low, so we can bring you to

[00:25:44] the highest of the highs at the end of this season.

[00:26:47] Batcher and she's being told that she can't have any other attachments. She can't have an attachment to any personal items. This has to be taken away from her. So she's being

[00:26:52] left on her own potentially here months and has not had any contact with any member of

[00:26:58] the Batch other than Crosshair who's been a nice little touch that it looks very like the one

[00:28:20] that she had on board the ship with the Marauder. I think that's the one that Rector gave her

[00:28:26] when they first met Amiga.

[00:28:27] Yeah, and it's a... For the last two seasons we have said there is something force sensitive about Omega. Exactly. Now her blood is being used and being told, oh no no, get rid of that because we don't and then we find out they're looking or attempting to do something with midichlorians. I'm going with she into the Emperor's plan. Exactly. And we will talk about this much more because we obviously have seen the other two episodes. I don't want to spoil the other two if you haven't seen those episodes yet, fellow bachelors. So let's hold off on the M count discussion until we get into one of the two other episodes. Absolutely. We're going to talk about it. Yeah. Any final points on this episode or overall what did you think of it?

[00:31:01] Overall, I really enjoyed this. Like for me, this it's the doll making, If you watch this episode and you're, you know, maybe six or seven years old and you've been watching the colourful, shiny show about the Bad Batch, you might want to turn it off right here and not watch the rest of the season because it might be a bit too depressing for you. So, they're setting out their stall right here because they resisted the urge to do anything

[00:33:43] that they've done in previous episodes that have been dark. You don't have any moment here with out Crosshair's hand is shaking. It's like, what is that about? That doesn't sound great, given he's having blood taken on a daily basis. And just this notion of what's down in the vaults, it does feel kind of like Hamahara-esque in that sense. What is going on down there?

[00:35:04] What are the experiments that Dr. Hamlock's doing? Absolutely. Well, That's the first question of our Cantina quiz questions. Two more to come in this podcast and one every week for the 15 episodes of The Bad Batch. Gather all the answers together and email us to feedback at TV Podcast Industries dot com with all the correct answers and you can be able to chance of getting your hands on some bad batch goodies. That is also the place you can email us with your thoughts about any of the episodes

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[00:36:25] groups slash TV podcast industries. We are going to take a break and we'll be back in episode two, Paths Unknown. I am one of your bad batching hosts, John. I'm still one of your hosts, Derek. And roundly as the group, I am the epitome of what Racker talked about as defective, but effective. I am Chris. I was thinking that would be the tagline for Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.

[00:37:42] I produce, you know, inventions that are kind of defective but end off working. that will lead them to the missing Omega. But when they follow the provided coordinates they find an abandoned laboratory and fear the worst for Omega. They also encounter three young regular clones Mox, Deek and Stack who have been left to survive on their own after the Empire abandoned and destroyed the

[00:39:00] facility. Hunter and Rekka work together with the young clone Deek to try and Yeah, I think so. I think we can safely say they're going to go to Pabu here. And rightly so. Absolutely. A sort of gorgeous island retreat for them to recover from, I guess, being prisoners for however long.

[00:40:21] Plus trying to survive on the planet on their own. the alien nightmare. Yes, yeah, yeah. So I thought I was like, wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Should we jump into our blaster points chance? Because there are some definitely a few things around the slither vines that have been slithering around my mind since watching this. Yes. Let us get into blaster point number one.

[00:41:47] Yes, it is the Durant Syndicate. I understand, right? Like what are they doing? Is this the thread that is going to be on? Now, Derek, your memory is highly more finely tuned than the rest of us. I did not remember the connection back from the Durans all the way to Season 1. I mean, I think the connection is really cool and cool that they would do that and just bring that in. So I think that's really cool, but it's just like, kind of like, okay, this is really like, it's just unexpected, I think. And so you kind of try to figure out what's going on and then yet you remember, you know, season one. And I mean,

[00:44:21] equally what we will find is, you know, the member of the Pike Syndicate that took his horn was actually the leader of the Pike Syndicate on that planet back in that episode. The episode ended with him effectively being disgraced

[00:45:40] but being given Omega's kind of pet lizard beforehand. Even though she's saying that, Roland's saying to them, I hope you do achieve your goal, I hope you find Omega because Omega was good to him. Exactly. And again, be soldiers? And Kaminoan says, of course, you'll still be in the service of the Empire. And I'm like, is like could one of them, and it doesn't go into any of that, but literally in relation to the last point, are three of those mocks, deke or stack.

[00:48:23] And so it's like, there's a real nice little touch,

[00:48:25] even though it might not be specific going to be a load of them. I get the sense that this is a second laboratory that we've that kind of being talked about obviously outside of the one on Mount Tantus. I get the feeling that there's going to be a fair few and in different Well that's it I mean even this you know the clones these three young clones are alone they have no trust either in the big red button. You mean this big shiny red button right here? Absolutely. I'm gonna press that button. You're gonna do this, I mean, now that you've said it, it's going to happen. It is predestination. Absolutely, yep, we're there today. If it wasn't gonna be Hunter, right? Has to be record doing it.

[00:52:20] Definitely, yeah, no, I really like that.

[00:52:23] But I mean, even just seeing these two on their own to find where which way to go, where to where to get to to anywhere. So you see him here finding the clones, knowing that there's that he's being watched at all times. It's this heightened sense that he has almost that comes out before the clones engage. Red clones engage, let's say. Absolutely. And some other nice touches here, though, from from the casting,

[00:53:43] which I really like two of the clones.

[00:54:45] evil yeah yeah okay yeah but is redeemed very quickly yeah yes with it with literally within the 90 minutes he's redeemed yeah yes it's a superhero movie

[00:54:51] you have to do that and if you haven't seen hunt for the

[00:54:53] world of people a really really good movie a great that's that was a big

[00:54:57] introduction to the world so yeah yeah highly recommend seeing that so so great

[00:55:02] to have him here in the Star and save and be alive. Or you could put yourself in massive danger where you know there's a risk of you dying. And you see them discussing about hotwiring the marauder and getting off planet and leaving them behind because they're not

[00:57:40] going to survive that facility. Which to be honest, they're not half wrong either.

[00:58:51] that other aspect to Rekka, Hunter and then Deke going into the facility to this console. The other part of it that I really liked was just the upside down Gunk Troids that Rekka

[00:58:57] was carrying.

[00:58:58] Absolutely.

[00:58:59] We need a pair of shirts.

[00:59:00] I got exactly the one.

[00:59:01] Gunkie.

[00:59:02] Yeah, and then Gunkies.

[00:59:03] It was just the ultimate disrespect for Gunk.

[00:59:05] It was a lot of them, wasn't it? then when you cut off parts of a body, it grows independent and grows sentience in life. I was like, oh, this is just, it's cool mutation. I just want to see that live action because that's the one where I'm like,

[01:00:20] you're adding horror level stuff into this Star Wars universe.

[01:00:25] Well, okay. And then getting to, even to the end, I was like, oh, it kind of felt Monster of the Week-ish. Yeah, yeah.

[01:01:40] And I'm like, okay, we've had those in season two and they're still good.

[01:01:45] And like, same again.

[01:01:47] This is still good. a walking Salak pit or I think I had in my notes, I called it the vine mother, you know, or the vine queen. And I was like, you know, get your hands off my bad batch, you batch. You know, I just kind of like, this is really like good stuff. I did like it. I mean, I

[01:03:01] liked the fact that it was indestructible with one thermal detonator and they had to and then takes over. Well, now that Disney also own the rights to all of the alien movies as well as the Star Wars movies, that's how you get your crossover, isn't it? Yep. I guess so. Aliens versus Imperials. That'd be hilarious. I actually would see that. Totally. We saw two aliens versus predators crap movies.

[01:04:22] We can definitely see an alien movie set at Star Wars.

[01:04:24] I like the first one.

[01:04:25] No, you liked the second one andie of even with the three young regular clones, you've got Rekka having a good old laugh and a bit of banter with them. And I they're kind of collecting allies in Pabu. Well, yeah. If we'll get this kind of the final push from the batch at the end is

[01:08:04] Unfortunately, I do think that means we're going to lose another couple of members of the Bad Batch by the end of the season.

[01:08:06] Oh, God, yes.

[01:08:07] Since we haven't seen any in live action.

[01:08:09] Well, we've seen one in live action.

[01:08:11] But we know a few do survive from some of the other shows.

[01:08:15] I hope some of them do, for sure.

[01:08:18] But with that, any final thoughts?

[01:08:20] For myself, I enjoyed this.

[01:08:22] I said Second Watch was a lot better for me. on one side and we don't see Omega because we had seen the other side of it last episode, maybe. But I did find this a much more exciting episode, of course, than the first episode, a really interesting episode. But there is sadness in this episode, John, you mentioned just that focus on the space that's left behind, the unoccupied space from Omega to kind of

[01:09:42] tie you back into the sadness that these guys are going through having lost their sister and the Bad Batch even though it was perd down with just Wrecker and Hunter remaining. But I just like how this kind of brotherly bond that we see with other members of the Bad Batch, with Rex and so on, I'd give this four upside down gonkeys out of five. Fantastic. Let's go to the Cantina for a quick drink. Definitely, need it. Maybe a sprig of slither vine in our blue milk with some gin

[01:12:21] as well. But yes, fellow quizzes, fellow bachelors, welcome back at the end of the season to feedback at TVPodcastIndustries.com and you could be able to chance of getting your hands on some Bad Batch goodies. Yes, good stuff fellow Batchers. Yeah, we're just taking a quick break and then we'll be back with Bad Batch season three, episode three, Shadows of Tantus.

[01:13:42] Don't touch that fine.

[01:13:43] Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. The excellence that is the Empire in the galaxy far far away. I Am pretty sure that this podcast and this discussion is going to be excellent So much so that Palpatine would be quite happy with it. I would put it down to that I would we are a dark podcast. It's a dark show

[01:15:04] Yes, we're the official talk about Star Wars, The Bad Batch, keep an eye on our feeds for all those other goodies, because it is there. But gentlemen, let's dive right in to episode three of The Bad Batch, season three, Shadows of Tantus. Derek, do you want to tell us who gave us what with this episode?

[01:16:23] Absolutely.

[01:16:24] The director of this episode is Stuart Lee.

[01:16:26] This episode was written by Matt Miktavitz into the animal cages of the laboratory, but the alarm one, if you were turning it into an event, into a one and a half hour event with all three number one. It's a royal visit, a visit from the Emperor. Yes, finally, a proper connection to Palpatine's mission.

[01:20:24] This is spread across pretty much every live action show.

[01:21:25] And now it's, okay, we're going to get all these mostly through this show, but through other kind of other bits as well.

[01:21:28] We are now seeing the rest of the picture, the middle, if you will.

[01:21:31] Yeah.

[01:21:32] Because we've seen it in Obi-Wan.

[01:21:34] We've seen it in the Ma'salorian.

[01:21:35] We've seen it in pretty much all the live action shows, this plan building out.

[01:21:40] And here we're seeing it, of course, in a show around the clones.

[01:21:44] You're going to see the starting of this project, you know, as his sister. I don't know, she is his sister, isn't he? His daughter? Ray's his granddaughter. Oh, granddaughter, yeah, exactly. But effectively the explanation is that potentially one of the clones that were cloned off the Emperor

[01:23:03] had a daughter and that's Ray. That's the explanation.

[01:23:06] Yeah, exactly. be the missing key to unlocking this ability to create a clone that can be the receptacle for the Emperor when he dies. In Obi-Wan we saw that they were already storing multiple force users to experiment on them to see if they provide the missing key. So we have all that and here most likely we're seeing

[01:24:23] the first potentially force user or a person with a high M count. Let's call it essentially one car to Esposito figuring out Grogu that's the key so it's still happening the services are still going on but then essentially we get to probably a point where it's all viable that they're just missing that Grogu

[01:25:41] link if you want to call it the mcount link so it sounds like it's pretty like a High Republic film or slash TV show which is like all the way in the back in the day. They talk of an Old Republic show as well and then we're obviously getting Andor season two and then the Acolyte and Skeleton crew. I don't even know where the Acolytes way in the past. Yes it is. And then the Skeleton crew I

[01:27:04] think is around the same time as Mandalorian but I don't know whether they've been able to clone Palpatine or not, whether it's just a standard clone and the clone obviously doesn't have the force powers, which is what he wants to be able to continue his legacy. That's the big leap that they need to make. And it could be that he's trying to create multiple vessels that are all, that all have his force powers, which is why he needs this high M count in each receptacle. That's why

[01:28:23] he's trying to gather together all of the dead Jedi, as we saw in Obi-Wan, he's very keen that the facility is both hidden and secure, you know, he says it's imperative that we keep this, you know, hush, hush, because, you know, the work that is being done here by Hemlock would be seen as an abomination, even by people, you know, all that, you know, sharing of ideas. And I won't say ideation and that happens and, you know, that kind of stuff. So I think it's all kind of, yeah, exactly. It's really connected. It harks back to, you know, because he's that iconic along with Vader. Absolutely. Yeah. But I think he McDermott was just being interviewed quite recently by Empire magazine about the 25th anniversary of Phantom Menace. And he came up with this great quote that he realizes now, looking back on all the years that it's the emperor that's the trigger for everything.

[01:32:21] Yes, of course Darth Vader is iconic.

[01:32:24] Get that.

[01:32:24] But without the emperor, we would, there would be no Vader.

[01:33:22] with a little help from Nala say. Yeah, absolutely.

[01:33:24] I actually quite like how this all starts off as though

[01:33:28] it's the day to day like we saw in episode one actually

[01:33:32] of this season.

[01:33:34] Except, you know, Omega sees that there's more troops around

[01:33:39] and we, you know, she's told that it's all stacked against them. It's all being winged, really. And I kind of like that sort of almost accidental nature of this escape. And because it is, yes, you can plan, but you have to then take that opportunity. And in some ways, Omega has planned in the sense she knows

[01:35:03] that she needs to escape and she certainly wants to take cross her.

[01:35:07] Yes. Yeah, and she's had to adapt because it is literally Nala Sei saying, you know, if they take your sample and analyze it, you're in danger. You need to get out of here. And it's as Nala Sei is effectively being denied control of that batch of samples for today because of the Emperor arriving.

[01:36:21] So to your point, he's always goes, don't shoot them down. Yeah, absolutely. Everything goes the same. That's why this for me is pure batch. It's just it is what this show is. It's like skin your teeth thinking off,

[01:37:42] cuff your pants, everything's fun.

[01:37:44] Absolutely. But I do totally put this on now to say like, oh, yeah.

[01:38:41] special guests, maybe they're not being told. So gossips going around, you know,

[01:38:43] it's almost like they're distracted by the additional work

[01:38:48] and security that they have to do.

[01:38:50] And I'm just saying, you know,

[01:38:52] stormtroopers seem easily distracted.

[01:38:55] They don't have a great shot.

[01:38:57] So it's kind of like, whilst the attention is focused

[01:39:00] on something, you know, they're doing guards of honor.

[01:39:03] Like how many troops are out there as the shuttle arrives?

[01:39:05] So they're not at their stations. that we the assumption is that there is a female like it's a some form altered female form of again making assumptions. Yeah. An altered female form of basically Django. Yes. Yes. And Omega is different because she's maybe not Django something else or maybe is Django but with just different.

[01:40:25] No, she's still a clown like.

[01:40:28] Like the batch.

[01:41:28] So, like, she's looking out for the interests of Amiga, yet, you know, she will try and stun her.

[01:41:29] And so, it's difficult to know really, you know, she gives her the doll, yet she taketh

[01:41:34] away the doll or will allow, you know, them to rifle through her bunk area.

[01:41:42] So who knows? you feel. So it does feel a bit like a fusion of science and probably Night Sister type stuff, but there are those red markings on the floor in the vault. So all this was really nicely done where it's just having this ticking clock of Amiga's sample working its way around before

[01:44:06] to go. And it's fun to see that because if you do rack up the tensions, they get to the ship. The comms don't work, that alerts everyone. Then you've got a ship coming, then you've

[01:44:11] got like these beasts, which are just like scaly gorillas.

[01:44:17] The lecturers or the big beasts?

[01:44:20] The big beasts.

[01:44:21] The big beasts, yeah, the ones we haven't got the name for. I suppose the tension from

[01:44:24] that comes from we know we lost three stormtroopers in the first episode heavily armoured, carrying beast from from last season. But it also maybe it was crossed with some of the genetics of Grand Admiral Thrawn because it had red eyes. So maybe it's hyper intelligent. I think this is the native creature to the patch. It's the relationship between Amiga and crosshair it's just interesting isn't it because he's kind of it's like it's almost he can't be bothered but he absolutely is bothered

[01:47:00] you know it's in some respects it's a distant way whilst they've both been prisoners at Mount Tantis. It's an interesting one.

[01:48:20] Yeah, and that's part of Amigia's character is that she is looking for the good in people

[01:48:25] all the time and will always find the good in Crosshair as well.

[01:48:28] Exactly. not by accident but they're effectively almost doomed. The fighters that have been sent from Mount Antis are locking on. It is the fact that Emery finds the blood sample which has glows a nice yellow, positive yellow

[01:49:40] to say that this blood has got the right M count So I love that calculation that happens here, which allows them ultimately to escape as he has to think of keeping her alive. Exactly. Yeah, so I really like that. Really good. And that's where we end. That is the end of this opening trilogy of episodes.

[01:51:02] Gentlemen, any notes that we may have there was no other reason to linger on them. So it was just throwing that out there.

[01:52:20] And the other thing that kind of,

[01:52:23] I'd noticed more and more recently,

[01:52:26] and again, as was watching this,

[01:53:24] other clone we know, what we know she is, that she's a female clone. There's quite a few other female members of the team that are working there, the scientists that are working there,

[01:53:29] that we see in the background quite a lot. It's not just Emory, right? So, I presume they're all

[01:53:35] clones that are working on this project because they all look quite similar. It's hard to tell

[01:53:38] with animation unless it's specifically being pointed out to you, but they all look quite

[01:53:42] similar. So, I was just wondering if there are it was going to take a massive strike to break them out of Tantus so the fact that they got out on their own and now are going off to search for the match in their own way is really interesting. I wonder does it mean though that Hunter and Wrecker are going to arrive on Tantus and get captured by themselves to just

[01:55:01] swap places with Echo and Crosshair? That would be disappointing. All they're sweeping that sector and around this project necromancy and the fact that it is Palpatine's contingency plan. No matter how much he sort of wraps it up as being for the good of the Empire, I love the way he calls it this Empire the tone is what I would kinda classify as 10-20% darker than season 2. Yeah. Which ended quite dark. With a that was your Scottish accent. Thank you. Well, it's better than New Zealand accent. But, do you know what will really make this episode so much better?

[01:59:00] Let's head on over to a cantina.

[01:59:03] Yes, that is exactly right Chris.