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The Bad Batch is back for its third and final season. Will our band of mercenaries stand up against the Empire? Will they rescue Omega? And what about Crosshair? Hopefully, this season will answer some of these questions.
SPOILER WARNING! The following contains spoilers for The Bad Batch Season 3 Episodes 1-3! Do not proceed if you wish to avoid spoilers!
QUICK RECAP
- The Empire destroyed Kamino’s cloning facilities last season and seized Nala Se, one of the head cloners.
- Cid betrayed The Bad Batch and alerted The Empire to their presence.
- Omega and Crosshair are now being held at Mount Tantiss where The Empire has begun cloning experiments of their own.
- Tech sacrificed himself so the others could escape from The Empire’s grasp
- The surviving members of the team, Hunter, Echo, and Wrecker, have vowed to find Omega at all costs.
MAJOR POINTS
- Dr. Hemlock used Omega as a lure for Nala Se to make a Force-Sensitive clone (Positive M-Count)
- Omega befriended a Lurca hound named Batcher and then freed it when she heard it was going to be put down
- Omega and Crosshair escaped Mount Tantiss but not before Dr. Hemlock learned that Omega has a positive M-Count
MAJOR QUESTIONS
- This certainly lends credence to the speculation that Omega is directly related to Rey, doesn’t it?
- And if so doesn’t that mean Rey’s last name should be Fett?
- What is Hemlock’s ultimate goal? What does he see fit to gain from these experiments?
FINAL GRADE: B-
Not seeing any of the team until the second episode was a little odd. There also was little action until the third episode. That said, the storytelling was solid and makes for a nice springboard into the rest of the season.
I can officially lay to rest my prediction that Omega was genetically engineered to have the strengths of all The Bad Batch team members. The predictions of her being Force-sensitive were correct and certainly make more sense. Not only that, it follows one of the oldest tropes in the book. The madmen/scientist/megalomaniac (Palpatine/Hemlock) in the end is destroyed by his own creation (Rey, who is derived from clones he ordered to be made in the first place). That also goes against the whole Chosen One commentary that George Lucas set into motion.