it was so good. mayday vocalizing the thoughts that crosshair can't verbalize himself, can barely let himself think. mayday is a distress signal. and mayday reminded me a little bit of hunter which compounds it further. crosshair did the morally correct thing to me. nolan was abhorrent. that ending though? the plot thickens.
I know Star Wars has often drawn parallels to the Vietnam War and, as a the kid of a Vietnam vet, this is eerily reminiscent of how my dad and his fellow vets were treated by the government after they came home.
He was using his infrared sight when the ship exploded. His helmet sight was overloaded and also caused him some temporary vision "damage". That's why he took the shot he did but only injured the raider.
Though I am an Imperial Fan, never have I wanted an Imp Officer to die so badly as that Lieutenant. I'm so glad Crosshair took him out...RIP Mayday. Yet, I guess we see that now Crosshair will be going back after them
I would like to see a special or something where we see an imperial being good like trying their best for the people they take care of and then when rebels come they just surrender maybe even showing them about to be sentenced but the ones they took care of speak up for them and they I don't know become part of the new republic just to show they weren't all bad
@@LegoTim82 I know but in a galaxy full of people I just figured at least some are better then the rest of the scumbags. I suppose we saw that in Battlefront two in the beginning or Finn's story at least at first. Or Starkiller if you take legends stuff
The Empire usually promoted or brought in Officers that would be Ideologically Loyal to the Empire, not because they were good Officers. This is what Governments that are Ideologically driven do in order to guarantee the loyalty of the Command Structure and to make sure they will do whatever they are ordered to do. In Communist countries there is usually an entire branch of Officers, called the Political Officers or Commisar, who's job it is to ensure that Military units, members and officers align Ideologically with the party....
I LOVED this episode so much!! I absolutely adore the character development on Crosshair, and the love he had for his brother!! He actually had a friend! Until.. he didn’t have a friend :(
I think the reason for making Crosshair lose his helmet and some of his computer-assisted sights for a moment was to justify why he didn't land an immediate kill shot. The plot needed the guy to leave a blood trail for them to follow, and Crosshair doesn't leave targets alive enough to do that--unless he's not at full capability.
god I love this show so much - the writing is refreshingly deep and multi-layered. Pair that with phenomenal animation that can show every emotion on a characters face without saying a word as well as a composer that can evoke an insane range of emotional contemplations… GEEZ this is a killer and severely underrated team and I honestly hope they do so many more projects together, in and out of the Star Wars universe.
This episode made me so unbelievably pissed at the Empire. and at the very moment crosshair snapped i was thinking "He should shoot him but probably won't for some reason." and then *bam* a body drops.. i was genuinely shocked and not shocked at all, i was stunned for a moment, this is the first time he's CARED for another clone since his chip activated. Now that very clone dies and gets left to be eaten for some ice vultures? This is the best damn fucking way for him to snap. I fucking hate how disrespectful and entitled the imperials are, no one, disrespects a clone.
Crosshair at Mount Tanis -- this is going to be horrible. Have you ever heard of the Dark Trooper project? It was started in Mount Tanis. The first ones were actually featured in a previous episode of "The Bad Batch", a pure robotic variant that didn't live up to Tarkin's standards since Clone Force 99 took them down with no casualties. We also see a third generation Dark Trooper in "The Mandalorian" at the end of Season 2 (some guy with a green lightsaber destroyed them) but there's a secret about this group that I worry is going to be featured in this series -- and if so, we're going to see probably the most tragic, and horrific, thing the Empire has ever done.
This show does a really good job of showing how different the Empire are from the Jedi and they're appreciation for clones. Mayday was a fantastic character and I really loved seeing Crosshair's final wake up call. Seeing him feel strongly about wanting to help him hurt my soul. Especially as he's always seen as someone without a soul or a heart. What a phenomenal episode. This season has really stepped it up and I'm loving every single second of it!
The light outcome will be that crosshair ends up saving omega. The dark outcome is tech ends up getting sacrificed to save omega and crosshair OR crosshair is the first candidate for the Dark Trooper project.
I have a very bad feeling about this. If what I think is happening to those troopers at that Imperial genetic facility is happening, this is about to turn into a horror movie. I just hope this isn't the last time we see the Crosshair we care about.
Emerie, she looks at Nala Se in the previous episode when Dr Hemlock finishes with his visit to her cell 🤔. For some reason, I have a feeling that she's a sympathetic character maybe secretly a rebel 🤔🤯?! (I could be wrong, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see 🤔.)
The bleakest episode of SW since the Fives arc back in CW. This one really made me like Crosshair for the first time. That Imperial lieutenant deserved exactly what he got. I can see Crosshair teaming up with Saw Gurrera's Partisans.
I believe that you are very close to a possible theory. I also believe that his soldier mentality was broken by what Mayday said. He said how the empire didn't give Osik about Clones. Crosshair took on bringing back Maydy and truly wanted to rescue his brother. Also Did you ask yourself why Mayday? "The Mayday" has died at the end representing clones. And the ice vulture was the empire. Furious creatures but Magnificent. It was waiting for the death so it could feed on it... The empire was taking out the clones. A harsh life.
@@SeanWheeler100 yeah, except human and not Force sensitive, just a pompous snob, unreasonable and incompetent 🙄😒🤦♂️, thinks he's entitled to be respected, when in fact, Crosshair showed him all the respect he deserved: *_none_* 😠😡!
@@erikolson4148 True. At least he wasn't the monster Krell was. Just a weakling who was killed with one shot. Krell needed to be unarmed and handcuffed for Dogma to kill him. And Nolan never went as far as tricking Troopers into fighting eachother.
So, the Empire finally broke Crosshair, and now he's a lab animal. A little late, friend. We've seen Crosshair start with a supremacist attitude towards the regular clones and every time we've checked in with him this season, he's been dragged a bit off his pedestal by the Empire's view of him as no different. Time to see the fate of a humbled Crosshair. I see a sacrificial death in his future.
i did, i thoguht the episode with palpatine appearing and Echo leaving was the end of the season it felt like a finale but turns out that was the halfway point but the episode have actually been getting better though but ti sucks becausd its in the shadow of the Return of Mandalorian
Can we just get episodes focused on Crosshair, the Clones and the Empire please. The random missions with the Bad Batch are just filler and really not progressing the plot of the overall universe. Episodes 3, 7, 8, 11 and 12 are the best and most important episodes and we need more of those type of episodes.
It is weird, cause it really did feel like they were dropping hints that the raiders might be clones, but I suppose it was merely us all reading too much into it in the end...Still, a fairly decent episode. I will be brutally honest though, I'm not sure I buy the writer's choice to have Crosshairs betray the empire so easily. It feels like to me after everything this wouldn't really be his breaking point, at least not yet, not completely. But that's just how I feel about it...Just feels a little rushed in terms of a character arch, imo.
Not only have they had two episodes showing, pretty aggressively, why he’d stop believing in the Empire, but he only shot that specific guy. He hadn’t exactly turned all the way here
Such an incredible episode! The Lieutenant forgot one thing: Unless you’re the Emperor himself, everyone in the Empire is expendable and disposable.
Didn't the Emperor also have disposable clones of himself? I think that makes everyone disposable.
@@youplayzz7922 weren’t they basically just rotting corpses?
@@jacktheflash8478 yeah , but I am pretty sure he had a couple body doubles so even the "emperor" is disposable
People didn't know it back than. Only began to found out for themselves.
I really love how Crosshair called the Lieutenant before shooting him. He let him know who shot him.
I STILL HAVE GOOSEBUMPS. What an episode.
it was so good. mayday vocalizing the thoughts that crosshair can't verbalize himself, can barely let himself think. mayday is a distress signal. and mayday reminded me a little bit of hunter which compounds it further. crosshair did the morally correct thing to me. nolan was abhorrent. that ending though? the plot thickens.
I know Star Wars has often drawn parallels to the Vietnam War and, as a the kid of a Vietnam vet, this is eerily reminiscent of how my dad and his fellow vets were treated by the government after they came home.
He was using his infrared sight when the ship exploded. His helmet sight was overloaded and also caused him some temporary vision "damage". That's why he took the shot he did but only injured the raider.
Haha yeah, that's what I said
Though I am an Imperial Fan, never have I wanted an Imp Officer to die so badly as that Lieutenant. I'm so glad Crosshair took him out...RIP Mayday.
Yet, I guess we see that now Crosshair will be going back after them
I would like to see a special or something where we see an imperial being good like trying their best for the people they take care of and then when rebels come they just surrender maybe even showing them about to be sentenced but the ones they took care of speak up for them and they I don't know become part of the new republic just to show they weren't all bad
@@lightdarksoul2097the empire are fascist. They’re not supposed to have a good side.
@@LegoTim82 I know but in a galaxy full of people I just figured at least some are better then the rest of the scumbags. I suppose we saw that in Battlefront two in the beginning or Finn's story at least at first. Or Starkiller if you take legends stuff
The first canon thrawn trilogy does a good job of showing this. Some of the imperial officers from those books are actually really good people.
The Empire usually promoted or brought in Officers that would be Ideologically Loyal to the Empire, not because they were good Officers. This is what Governments that are Ideologically driven do in order to guarantee the loyalty of the Command Structure and to make sure they will do whatever they are ordered to do. In Communist countries there is usually an entire branch of Officers, called the Political Officers or Commisar, who's job it is to ensure that Military units, members and officers align Ideologically with the party....
“This guy, man..”
MY EXACT THOUGHTS THE WHOLE EPISODE. I H A T E THIS GUY.
This lieutenant reminds me of General Krell.
"Fate sometimes steps in to rescue the wretched." -Boba Fett
"No one is ever really gone." -Luke Skywalker, _The Last Jedi_
I LOVED this episode so much!! I absolutely adore the character development on Crosshair, and the love he had for his brother!! He actually had a friend! Until.. he didn’t have a friend :(
I think the reason for making Crosshair lose his helmet and some of his computer-assisted sights for a moment was to justify why he didn't land an immediate kill shot. The plot needed the guy to leave a blood trail for them to follow, and Crosshair doesn't leave targets alive enough to do that--unless he's not at full capability.
god I love this show so much - the writing is refreshingly deep and multi-layered. Pair that with phenomenal animation that can show every emotion on a characters face without saying a word as well as a composer that can evoke an insane range of emotional contemplations… GEEZ this is a killer and severely underrated team and I honestly hope they do so many more projects together, in and out of the Star Wars universe.
The moment I first saw the Lieutenant and his horrid personality, I was immediately like, "Is Crosshair gonna kill him?" I'm glad I was right.
I think it was implied that they were some kind of Tusken. Their faces are covered, they never speak and they do get called Raiders at some point.
15:47 Crosshair did the Clones and the Galactic Empire a favor. That guy was sh1t as a lieutenant.
This episode made me so unbelievably pissed at the Empire. and at the very moment crosshair snapped i was thinking "He should shoot him but probably won't for some reason." and then *bam* a body drops.. i was genuinely shocked and not shocked at all, i was stunned for a moment, this is the first time he's CARED for another clone since his chip activated. Now that very clone dies and gets left to be eaten for some ice vultures? This is the best damn fucking way for him to snap. I fucking hate how disrespectful and entitled the imperials are, no one, disrespects a clone.
Crosshair at Mount Tanis -- this is going to be horrible. Have you ever heard of the Dark Trooper project? It was started in Mount Tanis.
The first ones were actually featured in a previous episode of "The Bad Batch", a pure robotic variant that didn't live up to Tarkin's standards since Clone Force 99 took them down with no casualties. We also see a third generation Dark Trooper in "The Mandalorian" at the end of Season 2 (some guy with a green lightsaber destroyed them) but there's a secret about this group that I worry is going to be featured in this series -- and if so, we're going to see probably the most tragic, and horrific, thing the Empire has ever done.
This show does a really good job of showing how different the Empire are from the Jedi and they're appreciation for clones. Mayday was a fantastic character and I really loved seeing Crosshair's final wake up call. Seeing him feel strongly about wanting to help him hurt my soul. Especially as he's always seen as someone without a soul or a heart. What a phenomenal episode. This season has really stepped it up and I'm loving every single second of it!
The light outcome will be that crosshair ends up saving omega. The dark outcome is tech ends up getting sacrificed to save omega and crosshair OR crosshair is the first candidate for the Dark Trooper project.
This Episode Just Hits You In The Feels 😭
RIP Mayday. You may have had more of an impact than you know.
Things are looking _darker_ and *sadder* for Crosshair 😰😱🥺😣😔.
I'm so happy that these last two bad batch episodes have been hitting just as hard as mandalorian season 3 for me.
Thanks, Omni! 🉑 Indeed, seeing 'Crosshair' go through a slow evolution of character is very compelling. #Omn1Media #StarWars #TheBadBatch
This ep had me so emotional 🥺
I did like the ending. It confirmed that they're bringing all the disconnected threads towards Tanis
Your insights are right on.....
It was perfection, simply perfection
I also thought they were going to pull an Umbara and make the ‘raiders’ other clones. Incredible episode nevertheless.
I have a very bad feeling about this.
If what I think is happening to those troopers at that Imperial genetic facility is happening, this is about to turn into a horror movie. I just hope this isn't the last time we see the Crosshair we care about.
Emerie, she looks at Nala Se in the previous episode when Dr Hemlock finishes with his visit to her cell 🤔. For some reason, I have a feeling that she's a sympathetic character maybe secretly a rebel 🤔🤯?! (I could be wrong, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see 🤔.)
If you think about it. The 2 mountains kinda look like wings on Cosshairs after he shot Lt. And he'll survive as the bird is
I'm curius what they want to do to Crosshair
Same here man I'm interested.
Probably gonna use him to get to Omega and Bad Batch. I'm sure they know on Tantiss, that he use to be in their squad.
same thing they did to Scorch im guessing
I think the raiders are like… the snow version of the tusken raider?
Mayday is technically Sub-Zero of The Clone Wars *BUT late era.* ❄️
Call me crazy but i liked this ep better then Mando one …
Two great Star wars episodes in one day. I'm a happy fan right now. 🙂
Same
100% agree
Love Mandos production value but the story first 2 episodes is too dull.
This episode was better in every way to the Mando Episode
Crosshair = Phase 1 Dark Trooper
I loved this episode and I knew Crosshair would have his redemption.
The bleakest episode of SW since the Fives arc back in CW.
This one really made me like Crosshair for the first time. That Imperial lieutenant deserved exactly what he got. I can see Crosshair teaming up with Saw Gurrera's Partisans.
End of TCW and the destruction of Kamino were pretty bleak too
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 oh, absolutely. I think we'll see the destruction of Raxus Secondus as well (based on Saw's dialogue in Rebels).
This episode reminds me of MetalGearSolid WolfHound. I would love to play ➕ 🐰 as a First person shooter.
I believe that you are very close to a possible theory. I also believe that his soldier mentality was broken by what Mayday said. He said how the empire didn't give Osik about Clones.
Crosshair took on bringing back Maydy and truly wanted to rescue his brother.
Also Did you ask yourself why Mayday? "The Mayday" has died at the end representing clones. And the ice vulture was the empire. Furious creatures but Magnificent. It was waiting for the death so it could feed on it... The empire was taking out the clones. A harsh life.
I knew I hated Nolan as soon as he started dehumanizing the clones, calling them *_used equipment_* 😠😡!
Kind of like Pong Krell.
@@SeanWheeler100 yeah, except human and not Force sensitive, just a pompous snob, unreasonable and incompetent 🙄😒🤦♂️, thinks he's entitled to be respected, when in fact, Crosshair showed him all the respect he deserved: *_none_* 😠😡!
@@erikolson4148 True. At least he wasn't the monster Krell was. Just a weakling who was killed with one shot. Krell needed to be unarmed and handcuffed for Dogma to kill him. And Nolan never went as far as tricking Troopers into fighting eachother.
@@SeanWheeler100 Thankfully Crosshair made sure he never got the chance to 😓.
So, the Empire finally broke Crosshair, and now he's a lab animal. A little late, friend. We've seen Crosshair start with a supremacist attitude towards the regular clones and every time we've checked in with him this season, he's been dragged a bit off his pedestal by the Empire's view of him as no different. Time to see the fate of a humbled Crosshair. I see a sacrificial death in his future.
i just realised maybe they made echo go away so there is again enough space for Crosshair to rejoin
I also thought they were clones, until they showed them pushing/fighting themselves at the camp.
I'm thinking they use his blood for a set 0f super troopers
8:27 No they aren't clones.
You are overthinking this way too much.
I had to double take on the woman at the end. Anyone else get a older omega vibe?
Definitely the same VA.
Just like the other woman.
Doctor Emerie Karr, introduced in last week's episode. She's not voiced by Michelle Ang but her VA is also from New Zealand.
@@khelatar It's Keisha Castle-Hughes, and despite the fact her breakout role was in a Kiwi film, she's actually an Aussie :)
(checking...) Australian-born, family moved to NZ when she was a small kid.
yo didn’t know Omni liked bourbon
A sad episode…🥺
Am I the only one that forgot this show was still going on?
Yes. This show is awesome
i did, i thoguht the episode with palpatine appearing and Echo leaving was the end of the season it felt like a finale
but turns out that was the halfway point
but the episode have actually been getting better though but ti sucks becausd its in the shadow of the Return of Mandalorian
Yes, it's just you.
Yes the episode titles already released, you could have easily searched it up
Yes.
Can we just get episodes focused on Crosshair, the Clones and the Empire please. The random missions with the Bad Batch are just filler and really not progressing the plot of the overall universe. Episodes 3, 7, 8, 11 and 12 are the best and most important episodes and we need more of those type of episodes.
🎯✨👍💫🧡😢
It is weird, cause it really did feel like they were dropping hints that the raiders might be clones, but I suppose it was merely us all reading too much into it in the end...Still, a fairly decent episode.
I will be brutally honest though, I'm not sure I buy the writer's choice to have Crosshairs betray the empire so easily. It feels like to me after everything this wouldn't really be his breaking point, at least not yet, not completely. But that's just how I feel about it...Just feels a little rushed in terms of a character arch, imo.
Not only have they had two episodes showing, pretty aggressively, why he’d stop believing in the Empire, but he only shot that specific guy. He hadn’t exactly turned all the way here
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 I don't think "I only shot that one guy" would hold up in court, especially when that one guy was your superior officer.
This whole episode trashes Andor don’t @ me