Bad Batch S1:E9 Chat (SPOILERS)

Kaminoan meta incoming

"Pariah_Anchorite;c-2273635" wrote:
Kaminoan meta incoming

Lol, but I would love a Kaminoan team. I’m not sure if they can fight yet, but a Kaminoan faction with support characters that add more clones and clone teams would be nice. One of them could have a summonable clone.

Also great episode! I feel like we’re settling into the groove now that CW and Rebels thrived on. I’m usually not excited about action scenes, but the Bane/Fennec fight was fun and well put together. Gosh, seeing Bane last episode was great, but to see him jump right back into the story and action in this episode was phenomenal. Well done all around!

I'll put this out there, in case I missed something, but if Omega is female and she is an unaltered genetic clone of Jango Fett (like Boba - who was described as Alpha), correct me if I am wrong (but a degree in Biology suggests I know my subject) - Jango is male, Boba, is male; Omega is female....the problem is the term unaltered clone. By definition, a clone is an EXACT genetic copy. Jango's DNA would most certainly have had to have been altered to create a female 'clone' (at least his XY would have had to been changed and the X in XY copied and replace the Y chromosome to make XX - which is female - but that would lead to genetic mutations and Jango was described as a perfect specimen in Ep2. Unless Jango was female and then a sex change of course and 'he' then insisted that Boba did too - but that'll be too woke for Disney? I hate inconsistencies in plotlines like this as it makes me think that no one cares for science in science fiction media (let's not get me started on sounds in space too!)

My friend (who also has a biology degree) suggested a crispr like situation in which the Y chromosome is deactivated in the embryo (not sure exact timing, my degree is in economics). I dunno if a single X chromosome would result in a girl, but she seems to be mostly prepubescent so presumably any fertility issues won’t have been noticed yet.

Also dunno if this would impact “purity” but…who knows. It doesn’t have to be perfect, technology is different in canon.

And I read some interview where (I think Filoni) said hyper speed travels at the speed of plot.

"RTS;c-2274247" wrote:

One of the things I hate most about Disney redoing historical SW stuff is things like travel.

In “Legends” some travel across the galaxy took WEEKS - that’s because they would be traveling in hyperspace, but even hyperspace had speed limits.

What they do in SW now seems more akin to tesseracting, and it’s so annoying.

Sorry but it's not just Disney. Star Wars films have never been very accurate on traveling times. It's ok though, remember SW it's not Science Fiction, we don't need logical accuracy every time. There's a reason why the OT never even tried to elaborate around traveling times on hyperspace. Because it was irrelevant for the movies.

"V01D;c-2274531" wrote:

"Xcien;c-2274234" wrote:


I’m pretty sure Rex was still alive, so why not the Bad Batch.

Rex would have been about 74 during the battle of Endor and 84 at the start of the Mandalorian season 1. The Bad Batch were cloned 1 year after Rex from what I could find. I believe they could all be alive and would love to see them in live action. However, they'd still be pretty old at that point.

Though somewhat combat ready. If Rex was fighting during the Battle of Endor, I don't see why Bad Batch wouldn't be having some fun still. I do wonder if the Kaminoans would correct the aging issue, or would they leave it alone. From a business perspective, having a customer needing to buy more clone soldiers is good business. If a clone has a shorter usefulness expectancy, the need for more units would always be there.

"RTS;c-2274247" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2273656" wrote:
It's always a bit hard for me, not trained in cinema/film studies or anything similar, to separate "good" from "enjoyable" when I've had a really good time. (Oddly, it's easier when I have a crappy time to set aside those bad feelings and talk through the more objective aspects of a video's quality with myself.)

So let's just say, I had a really good time with this episode. The pacing seemed good, and the character choices were generally understandable and reasonable from their point of view. The only "stupid" thing any of the characters did was Omega failing to take off her comms & hide them somewhere that they could keep broadcasting to give the BB more time to home in on her.

As for any other criticisms, well, remember how traveling from Tatooine to Alderan supposedly took days? And yet the BB gets to Omega in minutes? I would have preferred if she was hiding out in an asteroid field, turning the life support off for a couple hours near the beginning until Cad Bane was gone, then bringing them back up to only a minimal value. We don't really know where everyone is in relation to each other, the BB was just somewhere in interstellar space, but "several minute" interstellar travel between stars that are far enough apart to count as "long range" for comms systems threatens to destabilize the entire SW universe.

It shouldn't take minutes to go from, for instance, Tatooine to Geonosis. It certainly didn't in Episode 2.

One of the things I hate most about Disney redoing historical SW stuff is things like travel.

In “Legends” some travel across the galaxy took WEEKS - that’s because they would be traveling in hyperspace, but even hyperspace had speed limits.

What they do in SW now seems more akin to tesseracting, and it’s so annoying.

This kinda bugged me in the Frog Lady episode of Mando as well. No Hyperspace travel to go to another planet and/or star system would take "FOR EV ER"

"CG_Doja_Fett_MINI;c-2274627" wrote:

"RTS;c-2274247" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2273656" wrote:
It's always a bit hard for me, not trained in cinema/film studies or anything similar, to separate "good" from "enjoyable" when I've had a really good time. (Oddly, it's easier when I have a crappy time to set aside those bad feelings and talk through the more objective aspects of a video's quality with myself.)

So let's just say, I had a really good time with this episode. The pacing seemed good, and the character choices were generally understandable and reasonable from their point of view. The only "stupid" thing any of the characters did was Omega failing to take off her comms & hide them somewhere that they could keep broadcasting to give the BB more time to home in on her.

As for any other criticisms, well, remember how traveling from Tatooine to Alderan supposedly took days? And yet the BB gets to Omega in minutes? I would have preferred if she was hiding out in an asteroid field, turning the life support off for a couple hours near the beginning until Cad Bane was gone, then bringing them back up to only a minimal value. We don't really know where everyone is in relation to each other, the BB was just somewhere in interstellar space, but "several minute" interstellar travel between stars that are far enough apart to count as "long range" for comms systems threatens to destabilize the entire SW universe.

It shouldn't take minutes to go from, for instance, Tatooine to Geonosis. It certainly didn't in Episode 2.

One of the things I hate most about Disney redoing historical SW stuff is things like travel.

In “Legends” some travel across the galaxy took WEEKS - that’s because they would be traveling in hyperspace, but even hyperspace had speed limits.

What they do in SW now seems more akin to tesseracting, and it’s so annoying.

This kinda bugged me in the Frog Lady episode of Mando as well. No Hyperspace travel to go to another planet and/or star system would take "FOR EV ER"

It took about 2 days (I think, don’t know exact period of time), and that was with the Razor Crest half destroyed. So that bugged me as well.

Best one yet! Seriously, more and more enjoyable. The spy-vs-spy story-line is fantastic, and with them solving their problems so quickly (Omega), I can’t wait to see what’s next.

I liked this one again. Quite a lot to digest. Good story crafting, action and character. Be interesting to see what happens with the Kaminoans.