I'm glad it started from the way it was supposed to, from executing the Order 66. The Bad Batch is not evil, they were the leftover clone material that went wrong in the big batch that Kamino Clone Engineers manufactured for the Emperor ... not for the Old Republic. And as it is often with the anomalies, these ones turned out to be extraordinary. So much so that recruited Echo from Captain Rex's ranks to make them whole.
Echo could not have found better Clone Brothers than the Bad Batch. After all they are all so extraordinary that they don't fit in the normal Stormtrooper rank and file. They in fact have so much character in them that it is spreading also to their armour ... that is black.
Usually we have associated the Black with the elite, while white is reserved for the normal troopers. Until the New Order start mixing the things. But what happens in the New Order days is nothing we have to know about now. They are just times to come, but I might refer to them if certain models start to appear in the series.
However Wrecker, Hunter, Echo, Tech and Crosshair are the main guys. But we might be in for some surprise guests.
Caleb, the Padawan. I cannot recall a jedi or a renegade named like that but the way they executed the The Termination was superbly done. I was certain that we were going to follow the Clone Wars and not the ending for a couple of episodes for the audience to get know that the Bad Batch is the good guys.
The whole image of a Jedi Master surrounded by the Clone Troopers firing at her is thrilling and terrifying at the same time. There are only so many bolts that you can parry, and then one and another finds the mark. The masters can parry quite a many but they are not invulnerable to laser fire. Even Sith knows that, but that in the strange feature in the Force wielders. They do not carry blasters. Not willingly.
It is almost religious fanaticism to trust on the Force even though the numbers game hands you your *ss every single time. The probability of you parrying endless numbers of projectiles is pretty low and even the true masters of the art need backup.
Those who don't get Crosshair's decision making in the hunt for the padawan should know that he's by-the-book type of character. The chain-of-command is honoured, almost every single time as he says "Good soldiers follow orders..." That's why we have Hunter is in the charge.
He has wisdom beyond his years and as a clones, they'll have limited numbers of them. Although in their case it is unknown if the advanced ageing is going to play a role in their actions.
I loved that Hunter was confused by the execution orders. Maybe that's why he wasn't patched into the regular command channels. In his alter image as Rambo, he is following the Big Man's path as well with no giving in to silly orders, but he judges things as they come across.
In the Clone Wars episodes they also showed that they are not invulnerable as they got in a very bad spot with the droid army, and their end was very near.
I personally hope that Disney continues in this direction and allows characters to die, if it is needed to show morality among the normal guys.
Proto Tie Fighters. I love seeing the evolution in the imperium war machines, and the fact that the Bad Batch is flying a proto Imperial shuttle (without the big sail and white colour). Palpatin would certainly had made sure that his big army cloning facility at the heart of his schemes were adequately protected.
It was also intriguing to see that the corpses of fallen Jedi had ended in the cloning facility. Almost as if the program for the Inquisitor and other Force sensitive programs were going to be started in the Kamino.
Thing is none of us really knew that. We could only guess and speculate without fully knowing what was going at the background while Big Baddies appeared on the small screen in the Rebels.
More intriguing thing is that all of them were accepted back to their base, even though they are considered as Special Troopers. The secret that was kept hidden for one reason or another from the Coruscant Senate. Like the Jedi Master said their "...exploits are impressive."
I loved that Crosshairs carried the Order 66 and failing the order back to the barracks. It is a beef that needed to be solved. Thing is that Order was tailored in the genetic code and it took extraordinary feats for Captain Rex to defeat them to in order for him to stay with the good guys. Echo was turned by Palpatin's scheme to a human cyborg.
Omega, a Kamino engineered pure transhuman, in the essence of taking it to the transhumanist extremes as a ultimate human being. Super intriguing. I wondered what Kamino ladies had done to him, until Admiral Tarkin appeared on the deck to give the order to stand down on the production.
The manager rightly claimed that their products are far superior to the conscripts Tarkin was going to start pulling from the world. It kind of makes sense and gives the reason for why the average stormies is so bad at soldiering.
In those terms Omega is even more intriguing. As a clone engineers, maybe they pushed Omega's code to limit and made him all ways superior to average humans, even if he is just kid. Just like what happened with the Bad Batch.
For a small squad they are showing skill and knowledge beyond the ordinary. But in places, like in the case of Echo and Tech they are also showing physical weaknesses.
I loved that Tarkin was impressed by their ability to resolve the unfair drone advantage. It is a rare to a get compliment from him when everything else is generally not to is liking. Not that he would say it to team faces.
It was because of Crosshair's report on countering the official story in their execution of the Order 66. What a scheming lizard. LOL.
In his shoes he did the right thing to find out about the loyalties in the eyes of the Imperium, by ordering them to hunt down the rebels in Onderon - the home world of Steela and Saw Gerrera.
There is nothing more rebellious than Saw as even the Rebels cannot handle him and his actions.
Onderon rebels. They have been present in some many games that I have lost a count and to my eyes they all look so normal. It was also refreshing to see Saw without his cybernetic life-support implants.
The way he was explaining the movement ideals made him sound as if he is the father of the Rebellion instead of the Rogue Royalties like Leia's father. Thing is we really don't know who the idea belong to because the rebellion became a galactic movement.
I loved the twist that Omega turned out to be the last and maybe the best of the enhanced soldier, with her knowing being part of the Bad Patch. Hunter's instincts on her were spot on. He only had clues and he put it all together in his mind.
It just he couldn't figure out that Omega turned out to be a Force Sensitive Empath with an ability to see near future, making her a clairvoyant.
What a magnificent stand-off. I loved it and it was kind of obvious for the Crosshair's to turn baddie super-trooper.
