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They board the Imperial ship and quickly take out the less-skilled Imperial TK troopers. Inside are Echo, Nemec, Rex, Gregor, and Fireball. With the Imperial ship’s hyperdrive disabled, it cuts to the cockpit of the attacking ship. As that ship leaves planetside, another drops out of hyperspace and begins firing on the Imperial ship.

Tipping Point begins with clone trooper prisoners escorted by TK troopers and Commandos onto an awaiting ship. Where we leave the Bad Batch by next week, who knows, but it can’t be anywhere good.

Not an overt military conflict, but a war on the very souls who were corrupted at birth and forced to turn on their Jedi commanders and steal the galaxy for a dark power that cares not a jot for their welfare or survival. The reuniting of Omega and Echo was a rare charming note, as was the repairs carried out on Pabu by Wrecker, who is clearly enjoying his time there, but this is still a galaxy at war. There’s actions happening across the galaxy that feel destined to intersect, almost certainly in the two-part finale that will conclude the season, and as we watch Crosshair almost but not quite escape Mount Tantiss as on Pabu Hunter and the team settle in to this new island life they’ve more than earned but almost certainly won’t be able to sustain, there’s a feeling of dread and sorrow, and it’s been written across Hunters face all season.Ĭrosshair does manage to get a message out – ‘Plan 88: The Seeker’, which isn’t a song by The Who but could be – according to Hunter at least – a trap, and as we end with Crosshair still on the table we have to wonder if there’s a way for Clone Force 99 to, if not reform then perhaps be somewhat on the same page. There’s an air of dark inevitability about the episode as we hop to Coruscant and the Martez sisters workshop as friend of the army Riyo Churchi arrives to help however she can as Hemlock convenes with Governor Tarkin, who is concerned with security at the Wayland Complex. To his credit – and likely also because he genuinely doesn’t know – Crosshair stalls, leading to painful repercussions. It’s an interesting scene, showing just how militarily superior Clone Troopers are to the enlisted soldiers now employed by the Empire and also their admirable tactic of only firing on stun as we cut to Doctor Hemlock and Crosshair at Mount Tantiss, still captured and on the table as the doctor tries to find out where Omega and Clone Force 99 are. It would appear that’s not the case, and as their collective fates grow darker by the day, how long before the galaxy (Palpatine) plays them as he played Admiral Rampart, the Jedi Order, Dooku and the rest of this unfortunate galaxy.Īs for Tipping Point, we open with Captain Rex, Echo and crew taking control of an Imperial vessel loaded with clones, freeing them as the ship is left listing. Having done only what they were bred to do, the effects of Order 66 has not only changed the galaxy but changed them, and you have to wonder why there isn’t an Order 99 that activates to bring their accelerated clone lives to an early end. Here the threat is clear the existence of the clone army that took the galaxy is at stake, and while they are – and always have been – a controllable, weaponised threat we care about many of these soldiers.

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We’re approaching the sharp end of the second season of The Bad Batch, a fascinating selevction of adventures – as the debut season was – that in additon to delving into the lives and relationships of the warriors of Clone Force 99 has done a superb job of showing the state of the wider galaxy, something recent TV series in animation and live action have done superbly across different eras. Every time an episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch lands, Fantha Tracks will be giving their responses, and here are our initial gut feelings, deep dives and thoughts on episode fourteen of season two, ‘Tipping Point’.