{"id":289622,"date":"2021-07-02T19:18:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/star-wars-the-bad-batch-common-ground-review-film\/"},"modified":"2021-07-02T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:18:30","slug":"star-wars-the-bad-batch-common-ground-review-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-wars-the-bad-batch-common-ground-review-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Star Wars The Bad Batch Common Ground Review \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a35ca7056700\" 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-6a35ca7056700\" 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-common-ground-review-film\/#Other_Thoughts\" >Other Thoughts:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Star Wars The Bad Batch Common Ground Review \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-680639 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Star-Wars-The-Bad-Batch-Common-Ground-Review-700x296.jpeg\" alt=\"Star Wars The Bad Batch Common Ground Review\" width=\"700\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Star-Wars-The-Bad-Batch-Common-Ground-Review.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Star-Wars-The-Bad-Batch-Common-Ground-Review-360x152.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>\u201cCommon Ground\u201d<\/strong> opens, it flaunts the scale and flavor of a <em>Clone Wars<\/em> episode sans Tom Kane\u2019s narrated montage. It begins not on the Bad Batch (<strong>Dee Bradley Baker<\/strong>) pondering an issue, but on a planet in peril and a worried senator, Avi Singh (<strong>Alexander Siddig<\/strong>), looking over his civilians in an Imperial gunpoint situation. This time, we\u2019re witnessing the post-Republic era where the Republic-turned-Empire is the antagonist with the clone army unambiguously serving the oppressors in a tyrannical occupation. And this is the first <strong><em>Bad Batch<\/em><\/strong> episode where a Separatist plays an active supporting role.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the <em>Clone Wars<\/em> days from 2008, much of the classic episodes involved circumstances that challenged the clones\u2019 perspective and views \u2014 often Rex\u2019s \u2014 especially since injecting the clones\u2019 <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 since <em>Attack of the Clones<\/em> cast a veil of moral grayness in the prequel-era. In the script written by Gursimran Sandhu, \u201cCommon Ground\u201d invokes a material-rich scenario where Cid (<strong>Rhea Perlman<\/strong>) assigns the ex-Republic clones to extract the Separatist senator from the Imperial-occupied Raxus, a Separatist planet which debuted in \u201cHeroes on Both Sides\u201d on <em>Clone Wars, <\/em>at the request of her client: the senator\u2019s droid (<strong>Sian Clifford<\/strong>, channeling droid humor). Recall that \u201cHeroes on Both Sides\u201d further developed Ahsoka\u2019s \u2014 and the viewers\u2019 \u2014 perspective on the war outside of the \u201cRepublic are the good side [on a spectrum]\u201d scope. Naturally, living with the physical and psychological consequences of the Separatist army altering and violating his will, Echo voices dissent and grits his teeth to go along with the mission. But for all the material to mine here, something\u2019s missing.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post -->Under Saul Ruiz\u2019s direction, the thick-with-action operates at <em>Clone Wars <\/em>tier with a stunning use of scope and scenery, complete with the hijacking of an Imperial walker. The Bad Batch are a four-man army (we\u2019ll get to Omega\u2019s absence) facing a barrage of enemies \u2014 that aren\u2019t droids. It\u2019s nothing new that the Batch shoot back at their reg clone brothers, but distinctively and conspicuously here, the Bad Batch\u2019s blasters are set to stun, not to kill, in contrast to their past approach when regs cornered them. But the cut-to-the-chase pacing doesn\u2019t allow a breather to verbally acknowledge what motivated this crucial shift.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting character aspects dissolve as well. Sure, the Batch brothers help and eventually trust someone who is considered their enemy and Echo warms up to drop advice for the downcast Separatist senator to \u201clive to fight for his people.\u201d But illustrating their change because a senator was simply being a trustworthy individual on the battlefield rather than realizing he\u2019s a soul fighting for his civilians against a tyrannical rule \u2014 essentially the Batch\u2019s common enemy \u2014 is dissatisfactory. And this is coupled with a dismissive \u201cForget politics. We\u2019re here to do a job\u201d to Echo without unpacking his trauma-fueled sentiment. By the end, the Batchers do little to weigh out the incidental moral benefits of their mercenary assignment to save a particular planet and group of people from the Empire\u2019s rule. \u201cCommon Ground\u201d also forgoes its potential for the Batch to gaze intensely at complexities about the Republic\u2019s role in the war that ultimately were the makings of Darth Sidious\u2019s Empire. Internal analyses may as well be evoked later, but <em>The Bad Batch <\/em>has a bad habit of exploring idiosyncrasies in hindsight, like how even superb episodes \u201cReplacements\u201d and \u201cReunion\u201d picked up slack on compelling points, rather than working on solid groundwork. (I think about the shot in the \u201cSiege of Mandalore\u201d arc when Bo-Katan and Ahsoka stare disapprovingly at Republic clone soldiers occupying Mandalore.)<\/p>\n<p>As the boys are out, a much more defined arc is found in the smaller story of Omega (<strong>Michelle Ang<\/strong>) unlocking a life lesson that there are ways to function outside of the field, even if the tool to demonstrate such is oblique. Hunter leaves Omega behind with Cid and the two develop their own business dynamic. Cid begins as Omega\u2019s callous babysitter until Omega helps Cid make money by being a good <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/starwars.fandom.com\/wiki\/Dejarik\">dejarik<\/a> player and worth betting on. This is the first mission where Omega is booted to the sidelines, shut out from an opportunity to heroically save the day in action as she did in \u201cRampage\u201c, though she does (too) conveniently resolve the Batch\u2019s debt situation with Cid. However, Omega\u2019s talents at chess-esque dejarik are vague, passed off as her having a knack for strategy when most of Omega\u2019s onscreen competency chalked down to sharp instincts. The script and direction don\u2019t telegraph the specific strategies and rules of dejarik so we have to take Omega and Cid at their word that the former knows where pieces should go.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of \u201cCommon Ground\u201d could have been a classic like \u201cReplacement\u201d and \u201cReunion.\u201d But when you spy the summary on Disney+ \u201cThe Batch has their ideology challenged\u201d and finish the episode, you\u2019ll wonder, did that actually happen to begin with?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-680625\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Star-Wars-The-Bad-Batch-Common-Ground-Breakdown-700x296.jpeg\" alt=\"Star Wars The Bad Batch Common Ground Breakdown\" width=\"700\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Star-Wars-The-Bad-Batch-Common-Ground-Breakdown.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Star-Wars-The-Bad-Batch-Common-Ground-Breakdown-360x152.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_Thoughts\"><\/span>Other Thoughts:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fun fact: Raxus was also a setting in Christie Golden\u2019s novel <em>Dark Disciple<\/em>, which adapted eight unproduced <em>Clone Wars<\/em> episodes, incidentally where Dooku received the Raxian Humanitarian Award and made a speech about the inhumanities of the Republic breeding clones for war.<\/li>\n<li>If you watch the Disney+ <em>Clone Wars<\/em> line-up in order as they aired, you\u2019ll have the weird experience with the last installment of the three-episode arc, \u201cSenate Murders,\u201d slotted in the second season, while the <em>beginning and middle <\/em>of said arc was placed in the <em>third <\/em>season. 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