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Ok, this episode is good but it feels like they are dragging out this set up for the finale. From what I've heard, the finale is a normal length episode (hopefully 30 mins ish) so I can't help but feel it will be rushed. To compare to a phenomenal show: Andor, what these set up episodes lack is any character growth or developments which is hard when the episodes are so short. We've seen much of the development needed with Crosshair, Omega and Emeri but if your episode is just set up you have to have some substance to avoid constant set ups.

Realistically, they have to tie up Rampart being found, the zilobeast reveal, kids escaping with Omega, emeri helping echo and the batch getting in somehow??

I still feel we'll see some deaths in the final episode but I'm less sure on that than last week.

Anyway, discussing the episode itself - it was really good set up but lacking much plot progression. Obviously stuff happens but it feels like more shuffling of the puzzle pieces rather than any progress on the puzzle being made (to use a made up metaphor).

Omega's stuff was cool but encapsulated the episode as she didn't even escape or reveal her plan or anything!

I liked the stuff with Echo and he was the only one moving the episode forward (again ridiculous that on a top secret high security base, a clearly out of place storm trooper with a screw on hand on every data pad possible isn't picked up at all - and what does that scanner for the lab even do then?? Check you're a person??)

The visuals were good (not as good as last week) but the music at the start was very nice and got the episode off to a bang. I was thinking to myself how seriously their security was at the beginning but that became non existent later on.

Overall, despite my numerous complaints, this was still a fun and engaging episode if lacking in the plot progression we wanted. 1 EPISODE TO GO!!!!

Gonna have to agree with some of the reviewers on here; the past few episodes have been quite good (I actually thought this one was great), but a lot of it does feel like set-up for a finale. There's one episode left in the series and still feel like there's a lot to address, like...

What is the identity of that Shadow-clone?

What's going to happen to Rex's crew?

Where's Wolfe?

How force-sensitive IS Omega?

Will we see the end of the clones? Is there an unnamed fourth season or another sequel series to this?

I'm sure we'll get answers to a lot of this in the finale, which will surely be a long finale. I highly doubt it'll only be 25-28 minutes long, even if they did address a lot of this.

As for this episode, it was a really good time. I loved the action in the beginning with the crash-landing, I loved Echo's sneaking around and eventual meet-up with Emerie, and I really did enjoy Rampart and his dialogue with the Batch. It was another really entertaining episode.

I don't know that this season needed to be 15 episodes long though. I wouldn't call any of this filler, but longer episodes would have benefited and had me more excited for whatever is to come.

That being said, this has so far been a good season, and I am still very much so looking forward to the series finale. I'm sure it'll still be hard-hitting, intense and emotional. Filoni pretty much always delivers with his series finales.

The Bad Batch season three prepares everything for a glorious finale in its penultimate episode. Its title "Flash Strike" describes the episode well. There is a lot going on, the pacing is superb and the tension is high. Dave Filoni and his writers have pulled of another brilliant episode. Kevin Kiner's magestic score delivers again.

The Bad Batch now is so close to rescuing Omega and all the other prisoners on Mount Tantiss, together with revealing the secrets about project necromancer.

The Zillo Beast also makes his return at the right moment, adding another mysterious element to the operation.

All in all, this episode gave me everything I wanted. Action packed, funny moments, tense moments and most importantly it hold back the reveals for the finale!

In my opinion the last episode has to be much longer than the usual 20-25 minutes. I expect it to be 40-45 minutes like the Star Wars Rebels finale. I just do not see how they possibly could end this journey in 20 minutes.

We will find out in 7 days from now. Enjoy the last week of Star Wars The Bad Batch. A show that will be missed, at least by me!

This episode is fine; it's just fine. Nothing more, nothing less. There's no real progression here. The bad batch make it to Tantiss, get shot down, so Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, and Rampart all have to go through the jungle to make it to the base while Echo sneaks onto the base from the science ship by wearing TK troopers armor. It was stated at the beginning of the episode that the Tantiss base had been informed that the bad batch and Rampart infiltrated that space station to follow the science ship to Tantiss so I guess they were spotted and reported, just not while they were actively in the base during the last episode.

We also see that Omega is exploring that opening in the vault wall to see if she and the other kids can escape. Which is fine except for the fact that she very clearly goes deep into the interior walls yet when the other scientist lady comes to check her vitals she magically teleports back despite it being almost impossible that she'd make it back in time. At the end of the episode, Echo is in the lab and Emerie recognizes him and they say to each other that Omega told them a lot about each other. Echo says they're there to free all the clones as well as Omega and that he can't understand why Emerie would be a part of this since she's a clone too. Yet again that comes up. How exactly was Emerie created from the Jango Fett template? She clearly had accelerated aging since she's not a child like Omega so what? Was she a defective clone or somehow mutated to be female and the Kaminoans just kept her? Will her existence ever be explained? Of course not. Emerie is taken aback when Echo says that she's been experimenting on the clones and she just weakly says that she was just doing her job. So was she brainwashed or what? Surely she knew this whole time she was experimenting on fellow clones and that's pretty messed up, right? Anyway, she tells Echo that Omega is being held in the vault with the other children but he won't get anywhere near it without her help so he'll have to trust her. And Echo is confused by her saying the other children. And then the episode just ends with Omega saying she found something big (she saw the Zillobeast being experimented on while moving through the interior walls) and that she has a plan to escape.

My issue with this episode is that it genuinely felt like it went nowhere. Omega just has some vague plan of escape, Echo is going to go with Emerie to try to free Omega and the other kids, and Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair are still stuck in the jungle. Rampart ran away from some monster he sat against and got captured by TK troopers so I guess he won't be in the finale. And speaking of the finale, what is it even going to be? Just the bad batch rescuing Omega, somehow freeing the imprisoned clones (maybe Rex shows up to help get them off world), and they take Emerie with them? Even if they kill Hemlock, wouldn't the empire still go after them and try to recover Omega? Something tells me the finale is going to be super underwhelming and completely unsatisfying.

Filoni I'm begging you for meaningful conflict. There's no good reason for Emery to seriously consider redeeming herself just because she was shamed by some clone or because some kid sought comfort in her. If it were a good reason, she would've turned already. Emery constantly used the inescapability of the Empire as her belief that prevents her from being empathetic to others, and we already have Omega back in prison, so why is there no conflict or communication here? Omega literally disproves time and time again the supposed futility of fighting the Empire, but the character who believes fighting the Empire is impossible doesn't spend a single second reflecting on that success. It's clear the writers don't even understand their own script.

This lack of thematic conflict is an enormous problem. The main reason Andor's prison escape arc was so compelling was because it actually had contlict that wasn't just plot, but character beliefs. Andor believes in fighting the Empire. Kino Loy believes accepting oppression is the only choice. The Empire believes themselves to be too powerful to be affected by ideas. But nobody gives Omega any pushback, and when Omega disproves another character's core beliefs, it isn't noted.

There are good bits here and there, like Rampart vs Crosshair, and it's cool to see Omega so confident, but everything lacks thematic punch and it's clear that nobody gave any thought to this story beyond its basic premises. The two or three ideas this writing team tried to stretch into a dozen episodes desperately need more than just a basic idea. 3/10 for a lack of anything to accompany Things Happening.