The Bad Batch Season 3 Premiere: Confined + Paths Unknown + Shadows of Tantiss (S3, E1–3)
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The Bad Batch Season 3 Premiere: Confined + Paths Unknown + Shadows of Tantiss (S3, E1–3)

The Bad Batch Season 3 premiere (S3, Ep. 1–3, "Confined," "Paths Unknown," and "Shadows of Tantiss”) is a confident, thrilling, beautiful arc that thrusts us back under the Empire’s boot. In our discussion this week, we covered our first impressions of this gripping first installment, the disturbing implications of Project Necromancer, and the loneliness of being Hunter and Wrecker rattling around the Marauder. 

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Episode 80: The Bad Batch: “Cut and Run” and “Replacements”
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Episode 80: The Bad Batch: “Cut and Run” and “Replacements”

“Cut and Run” and “Replacements” (The Bad Batch S1, Ep. 2–3) continue to illuminate a changing galaxy. The Empire is rolling out chain codes to register and track citizens, sending elite forces to wipe out insurrectionists, and scheming to make the former Republic’s clone troopers obsolete. At the same time, the Bad Batch is skittering from one hidey-hole to the next, never able to stand still.

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Episode 79: The Bad Batch: “Aftermath”
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Episode 79: The Bad Batch: “Aftermath”

The 70-minute pilot episode of The Bad Batch, “Aftermath,” smash-opens with another view of Order 66 (like we needed to suffer this pain again). Then we follow the Bad Batch as they navigate a changing galaxy — one that isn’t exactly giving them cakes and wishing them a fine day.

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Episode 10: The Malevolence Arc
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Episode 10: The Malevolence Arc

In a triple-header recap of The Clone Wars Season 1, Episodes 2-4, (“Rising Malevolence,” “Shadow of Malevolence,” and “Destroy Malevolence”) General Grievous pimps his ride, Sam talks about WWII naval warfare (somehow it’s relevant) and you’ll never look at can openers the same way again. Come for Ahsoka’s backseat driving, stay for the giant space manta rays.

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