Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Animated Disney+ Series)

[XavierTheaterPotato]

The Bad Batch has been nailing it recently, and I mean Recently. Great Episode. I just feel bad for Crosshair at this point

[matirocker]

Spectacular episode. It's a shame that this will get like 10% of the viewership than the new Mandalorian episode, being optimistic. Yet this episode is so superior, and I like The Mandalorian! I hope this paves the road for a Crosshair redemption.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by LexInHD

The DT's wouldn't exist at this point and their precursor, the DT-series sentry droid used by the Kaminoans and later, the Empire, is what you've already seen in the show and in Rebels. The Phase-1 DTs haven't been shown in the Disney continuity yet, but what we have seen implies that they could just be a heavily augmented DT-series sentry droid design intended for full combat use and incorporating advanced strategic AI tech taken from the Separatists, while the Phase-2 DT is nothing more than an armor for elite Imperial shock troopers and was only made in small numbers for testing and evaluation purposes, before the Empire decided that combat droids were the right direction for the DT program and made a small batch of Phase-3 DT droids. The DT-series sentry droids were made by the same company that made the Battle Droid lines for the Separatist forces and that particular design was probably something competing with the design chosen for the B2-series, since they share many similarities and the same manufacturer.

Is this Extended lore or current canon?

Filoni could be trying to tie it to Mandalorian's Dark Trooper project.

[LexInHD]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Is this Extended lore or current canon?

Filoni could be trying to tie it to Mandalorian's Dark Trooper project.

Current. You have to have access to the official reference material supplements (books) to get a lot of the information you want about specific things like the DTs. Otherwise, you have to hope someone fills out stuff on Wookiepedia. From what we know of the DT Project, it wouldn't have existed until much later, when the Empire and Imperial Army/Navy were more established. The period of Obi-Wan/Andor would be when the program is likely to have been started, as that is when the Empire was openly dealing with threats to it's stability.

[fredman]

Originally Posted by matirocker

Spectacular episode. It's a shame that this will get like 10% of the viewership than the new Mandalorian episode, being optimistic. Yet this episode is so superior, and I like The Mandalorian! I hope this paves the road for a Crosshair redemption.

Eh. Since Andor I'm a bit jaded on both The Mandalorian and The Bad Batch which still provide a bit too much lip service for 'Old Star Wars' tropes. That said

[Show spoiler]I was expecting the doctor to perform surgery on Crosshair removing or disabling his chip to affect his return to the squad - We'll see.

[drb999]

Poor Crosshair. He’s just having no luck these days.

[Mr. Chaverria]

Damn good episode. Crosshair living and working w/ how it is now is great insight to his character depth.

[matirocker]

Originally Posted by fredman

That said

[Show spoiler]I was expecting the doctor to perform surgery on Crosshair removing or disabling his chip to affect his return to the squad - We'll see.

If I remember correctly, they all had their chips removed or it never affected them. Hence why Crosshair going "bad" was a shock initially. Someone correct me if I'm mistaken. I remember there was an episode where they had to remove Wrecker's chip I think.

[LexInHD]

Originally Posted by matirocker

If I remember correctly, they all had their chips removed or it never affected them. Hence why Crosshair going "bad" was a shock initially. Someone correct me if I'm mistaken. I remember there was an episode where they had to remove Wrecker's chip I think.

Wrecker and Crosshair exhibited side-effects from the programming and the rest were completely unaffected and Crosshair later had his chip programming jacked up with complete loyalty to the Empire. Echo had his brain chop-shopped by the Separatists, so he may have had the chip removed or it was simply negated entirely by his cybernetic replacement parts. Regular troops and Clone Commandos had a sort of neurological rewiring when the order was given that fried their brains a bit, at least temporarily, reducing their effectiveness. That also happened to Wrecker, when his chip and genetic modifications conflicted, causing him to go haywire.

[PeterTHX]

Crosshair specifically said he had his chip removed though.

[terp_fan99]

Originally Posted by matirocker

Spectacular episode. It's a shame that this will get like 10% of the viewership than the new Mandalorian episode, being optimistic. Yet this episode is so superior, and I like The Mandalorian! I hope this paves the road for a Crosshair redemption.

I have a feeling his redemption will involve him dying.

[postmodel]

Yeah I feel like he’ll go out in a blaze of glory saving the others, or specifically saving Omega.

[El Rey]

Great episode! The season started slow for me but has certainly picked up.

[drb999]

Nothing really happened this week. I found this episode to be lacking something. Other than breaking away from Sid not much interesting happened really.

[ben6543]

I honestly enjoyed this filler episode more than today's Mando episode (just the science dork parts of Mando)

[Jeyl]

This episode had the makings of the most predictable series of events ever put onto paper.

"Oh, this is such a great place. The people are accomodating and nice. They even want us to stay here!"

I knew something bad would happen, but I give the episode props for not taking the obvious route. i.e. The Bad Batch saying they always bring danger with and decide not to put anyone in danger so they leave. Also, the Bad Batch ghosting Sid is the best thing this group has done this season, if not their entire existence.

[El Rey]

Yes this was definitely a filler episode but even more so after last weeks great Crosshair-centric episode, ugh

[XavierTheaterPotato]

I felt like this episode in particular is setting up a potential way the series could end. A retirement spot for at minimum one member of the Batch to live the rest of their life.

[tcripe]

Crosshair episdoes are always the best episodes.

[drb999]

Hopefully they don’t kill Crossfire off. There’s too much story for them to dive into with him.