{"id":278217,"date":"2021-06-18T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/star-wars-the-bad-batch-faces-a-stormy-turning-point-in-reunion\/"},"modified":"2021-06-18T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T16:00:11","slug":"star-wars-the-bad-batch-faces-a-stormy-turning-point-in-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-wars-the-bad-batch-faces-a-stormy-turning-point-in-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Star Wars: The Bad Batch\u2019 Faces a Stormy Turning Point in \u201cReunion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b4ab86708\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b4ab86708\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-wars-the-bad-batch-faces-a-stormy-turning-point-in-reunion\/#Formidable_Adversaries_and_Familiar_Faces\" >Formidable Adversaries and Familiar Faces<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-wars-the-bad-batch-faces-a-stormy-turning-point-in-reunion\/#Other_Thoughts\" >Other Thoughts<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#\u2018Star Wars: The Bad Batch\u2019 Faces a Stormy Turning Point in \u201cReunion\u201d<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-677566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/star-wars-the-bad-batch-reunion-700x296.jpeg\" alt=\"star wars the bad batch reunion review\" width=\"700\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This article contains\u00a0<strong>spoilers<\/strong>\u00a0for the\u00a0<\/em><strong>Star Wars: The Bad Batch<\/strong><em>\u00a0episode &#8220;Reunion.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is Crosshair a good luck charm? Because his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance elevates any <em>Bad Batch<\/em> episode to the top tier. Directed by Steward Lee and written by Christian Taylor, &#8220;Reunion&#8221; is exactly what the title suggests: Crosshair resurfaces into the plot to confront his Bad Batcher (Dee Bradley Baker) brothers. (There\u2019s also a meta reunion for the <em>Star Wars<\/em> fans, but we\u2019ll get to that.)<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-677535\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wrecker and Omega (Michelle Ang) bond over bomb-defusing lessons, and they\u2019re still thick as thieves after the biochip horrors last episode. Hunter is insistent that the Batchers must salvage valuable intact weaponry on Bracca in order to pay their debt to Cid. While he counts on the Scavenger Guild to be an obstacle, he doesn\u2019t realize they flagged them to the Empire, which sends Crosshair, his stormtroopers, and clone troopers to terminate them. The Empire\u2019s pursuit interferes with the Kaminoan clone scientists\u2019 secret scheme, their &#8220;contingency plan,&#8221; to capture Omega, so Lama Su (Bob Bergen) hires another bounty hunter. But before complications rain upon the Batchers like an aggressive meteorite shower, the rogue clone siblings contemplate and debate their place in the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Clashing interests are echoed (pun intended) by the resentment brewing in Echo. I complained last episode that the other Batchers were not present on Hunter\u2019s rejection of Rex\u2019s rebel cause. Turns out, Echo disagrees with Hunter\u2019s decision since bailing with Rex could have allowed them to disregard their debt and start anew. The argument speaks miles about their state of mind and morale. Hunter does not want false stability under a Republic that doesn\u2019t exist, while Echo perceives Rex\u2019s cause as their ticket back into Republic soldierhood, as clones were bred for \u2014 not because he believes it\u2019s the right cause.<\/p>\n<p>Tech and Omega also process post-war purpose with a strikingly generational dynamic. As the child clone holds her gaze on a graveyard of ships and realizes a weight she cannot put into words, she poses an important question: &#8220;What was the war like?&#8221; Tech blithely explains it was just a &#8220;primary mission objective.&#8221; Omega pushes on, &#8220;What was it like?&#8221; \u2014 her child brain needing to understand the war on emotional terms \u2014 but her guardian&#8217;s answer is the same and dissatisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Then you have Crosshair, the sole brain-chipped Batcher, who remains with the Empire due to his sheer obedience. Listen to the clinical rapport between Crosshair and his three gray-armored stormtroopers proteges, credited as numbers yet each bearing distinctive voices (Tina Huang, Ness Bautista, Daheli Hall), a contrast to the Baker-voiced clones. It\u2019s discomforting to discern that they are humans underneath the helmets, hardening into shells.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-677580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/the-bad-batch-reunions-700x296.jpeg\" alt=\"the bad batch reunion\" width=\"700\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Formidable_Adversaries_and_Familiar_Faces\"><\/span>Formidable Adversaries and Familiar Faces<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Fennec Shand may have been a formidable adversary, but Crosshair is tiers above her talents because he knows his old brothers&#8217; move \u2014 every strategy, every tool, starting with deducing Tech&#8217;s scanners would try to throw them off path. And once Crosshair is on planet, blasters are fired. But when Hunter and Omega scurry back to the ship, someone who is decidedly not the Empire military is waiting for them.<\/p>\n<p>Fennec? Nope, it\u2019s a new bounty hunter, or a fan-favorite familiar for <i>Clone Wars<\/i> viewers: that guttural Duros Cad Bane (Corey Burton, excellent as always) with a Clint Eastwood swagger, cued in by Kevin Kiner\u2019s music composition pulsating hard on the strumming Western theme \u2014 so on-the-nose that you\u2019d expect Kiner to round it out with the iconic Western whistle, whoops, and hollers utilized by Ennio Morricone once Hunter and Cad Bane have their blaster showdown, which Hunter does not stand a chance against.<\/p>\n<p>The hype-provoking trope of &#8220;beloved franchise veteran popping up to kick ass&#8221; has been banked upon through <em>Star Wars<\/em> to varying and debate-worthy effect. By being upfront about its status as a direct follow-up to an existing <em>Star Wars<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> from &#8220;Aftermath,&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Bad Batch<\/em> never made any pretense about not being a standalone <em>Star Wars<\/em> story, so it has more story license to slot in <em>Clone Wars<\/em> alumni. This sets it apart from, say, the earlier episodes of <em>The Mandalorian<\/em> and <em>Rebels<\/em>, which both came off as standalone narratives that were incidentally situated in the <em>Star Wars<\/em> universe while branching off the world-building, until the franchise veterans like Boba Fett and Luke Skywalker began to shake up \u2014 or disrupt, depending on who you ask \u2014 the story. Knowing Cad Bane and his future beyond <em>Clone Wars<\/em> is what fans have been thirsting for. Not unlike Maul in <em>The Phantom Menace<\/em> or hand-drawn <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Grievous in Genndy Tartakovsky\u2019s 2003 <em>Clone Wars<\/em>, he\u2019s a swaggering example of a consummate antagonist by mere presence, not by backstory or potable tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>And what a hell of an (re)introduction for Cad Bane in <em>The Bad Batch<\/em>! That\u2019s regardless if a viewer is acquainted with Cad\u2019s hardcore bounty hunter professionalism (this is the guy Emperor Palpatine hired to snatch Force-sensitive babies). But while fans would be buzzing about Cad \u2014 obviously not to the firecracker level of Luke Skywalker\u2019s one-man cavalry in <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 &#8220;Reunion&#8221; is most commendable for its multitudes: the rapports that unveil how much the war has transformed and challenged its soldiers and ex-soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Not that <em>Clone Wars<\/em> and <em>Rebels<\/em> avoided displaying bodily damage, but the often-bloodless CGI renderings of <em>The Bad Batch<\/em> is the least shy on the grime of all Lucasfilm Animated productions, and it accentuates the tension. The Bad Batchers\u2019 strategic escape attempt results in the battery of Crosshair and the camera focuses on him writhing in agony, his eventual bandaged head, and his mouth muzzled by an oxygen mask. Those are a series of disconcertingly humanizing shot that forces us to watch a shell of a man, who committed brutal acts, undergo human pain. Omega wonders if a brain-chipped Crosshair could be so zealous to incinerate his own brothers in a ship\u2019s booster. We want to hope like her that a chip can easily explain away Crosshair\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>The Batch may have outwitted their brother, but Hunter could not outgun a bounty hunter stranger to save Omega.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_Thoughts\"><\/span><b>Other Thoughts<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I normally would be bugged by the comedic cutaway to Cad Bane\u2019s service droid sidekick (Seth Green) before the dramatic shot of Omega running to Hunter\u2019s body, but Green delivers his woe-is-me line humorously, almost as if fan-boyishly giddy he got shot in a Cad Bane\u2019s showdown. It unintentionally works.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post &#8216;Star Wars: The Bad Batch&#8217; Faces a Stormy Turning Point in &#8220;Reunion&#8221; appeared first on \/Film.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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