Episode 89: The Bad Batch — “The Solitary Clone” and “Faster” (Season 2, Episodes 3–4)

“The Solitary Clone” and “Faster” (The Bad Batch S2, Ep. 3–4) are such beautiful love letters to the prequel era that we forgot we weren’t watching The Clone Wars for a second. 

In our recap, we talk about the many blasts from the past we get in these episodes: podracing (!!!!), callbacks to the Funding the War Arc with Mina Bonteri, hanging out with Commander Cody, more emotional trauma in front of the clone trooper memorial on Coruscant, and allllll the Separatist battle tech. On the less fun side, we also get a callback to the unfortunate prequel-era habit of killing off Star Wars’ coolest and most powerful women (more on that during Bae Watch).

To skip to your favorite segments, check out the timestamps below.

And join us next week to recap “Tribe” and “Entombed” (Bad Batch Season 2, Episodes 4–5). 

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Plot Overview

00:13:53 “The Solitary Clone” Discussion

00:22:17  Calling Back to “Heroes on Both Sides”

00:26:25 How Strong Is The Empire Anyway?

00:31:07 The Bad Batch As a Samurai Story 

00:38:35 “Faster” Discussion

00:50:36 Bae Watch

01:00:54 End Credits