Bad Batch S1:E9 Chat (SPOILERS)

"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.