Crosshair is back! The third episode of season two, titled The Solitary Clone, is one of the best episodes of the series so far, exploring the continued spread of the Galactic Empire through the familiar lens of a Clone Wars inspired story. And it also brings along a familiar face…
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My only anger is that the separists governor didn't kill the imperial one before she was shot!
I honestly cheered for the battle droids the whole episode. The city was happy and peaceful before the empire came along and wanted to force a corrupt governor into power, but the current governor wanted nothing to do with the empire, but the empire decided to invade with hostility, and the battle droids were only protecting the innocent citizens. The governor and battle droids had the best interests of the citizens at heart.
Crosshair would be a world class darts player. He doesn't need to be a soldier
See, Star Wars can have more dark themes and still be for everyone, I hope you learn something from this, "IwanttohaveadultStarWars"-people!
I didnt expect much from 3rd episode… but god damn, I was in awe at the end as the whole episode just blew my mind. Such a master piece
I was honestly not sure who I supported during the battle, on the one hand I agreed with the seperatists, on the other hand we've always seen the clones as the good guys, and we still look at the battle from their point of view most of the time.
I still like that every clone has the same hair style
I am absolutely loving this tone
I have to say this episode hit all the right notes for me. It was executed beautifully in terms of dialogue, pacing, shot compositions, etc., and engaged me visually and emotionally from the opening scenes. The complexity and shades-of-gray of the SW Universe has never been more starkly portrayed. Then, like the cherry on top of an already delicious sundae, the whole thing culminates in some of the most enthralling and cleverly-staged action sequences in the entire CW series. Filoni and company continue to deliver excellence.
Something occurred to me while watch this review that ties to the Empires push to replace the Clone Troopers with Stormtroopers. When the new governor arrived on Desix, they were not likely expecting much resistance, much less an actual fight, so Grotton is escorted by TK troopers. When the Empire sends a team to fight a battle, and take casualties, they send CT troopers.
I really enjoyed this episode. I am hoping for a redemption arc because he is so miserable right now. I loved the familiarity he had with Cody I felt that for a moment he thought things were kinda going back to the way they were. Then Cody left and he is back to where he started since joining the empire. Alone.
Also, they really only eat one thing in the Clone Wars animation style: the strange chicken Orn Free Taa seemed to love so much in the Mandalore episodes of season 2. I just noticed it on a tray in the Clone cantina. Good to see that food is still around.
Thank you for great coverage of all new Star Wars episodes. Finally watched Andor and new Bad Batch and now enjoying your great videos. When you talk about different worlds in Star Wars Universe I keep wondering if any of the planets have countries!? Not only cities/villages but countries with different governments and political systems, like we have on Earth 🙂
Dessix is a city, not a planet.
That's not how a whole planet would respond
The empire values his skills, and he values his skills. They're well aligned
Tani's logic is flawed, though. A succession only sticks if you actually win your war for independence (or are actually peacefully recognized by the mother country). As such, countries like the United States, Haiti, and Panama successfully became independent countries, while others like the Confederate States and the Philippines (until later granted independence in the latter case) did not.
Since the Separatists lost the Clone Wars, they are indeed still subject to the Republic's successor government, the Empire. Of course, they're very welcome to try again on their own as they did here, but they can only blame themselves for it ending so badly.
I was LOLing at Tani's depiction of Dooku! While Dooku actually did start out that way before the Clone Wars, wouldn't she be surprised to learn that Dooku was actually in cahoots with the Supreme Chancellor to sacrifice the Separatists all along as a means for gaining enough power to establish the Empire?!
I’m surprised crosshairs didn’t execute Cody for disobeying a direct order. of course a POW has no authority to issue direct orders to anyone so Cody was under no obligation to follow it.
Does anyone know how Cody got that scar on his face? I thought it was plausible that he removed his chip but I don’t think that was ever established.
This was a great episode commando droids coming back with a bang. It felt like an episode of the TCW but this time you're following the "bad guy"
Fans of One Punch Man would recognize Grotton's voice actor.
Also, I like how we got and episode about Crosshair and Cody being back
8:07 A SW Kids video from season 1 said Crosshair's enhancement is eyesight.
I'm surprised i've seen very little chatter about Rampart assigning Crosshair to CC-1126.
Clone Commando Darman Skirata from Omega Squad in Legends.
Interesting squad name…
This episode felt like a polar opposite, of season 1 common ground, a Squad goes to a former Separatist Planet that Is Now positioned for a imperial officer (officer Bragg and Governor Grotton), A Clone Squad IS sent on a rescue misión, and brings a new light to the character on Their original belief's
only difference here is It Is the Imperial Who Got captured and your sort of rooting for the Separatist droids to win against the droids to win, and in the end you kind of feel like the episode was a loss for the clones either way
This really demonstrates how short sighted the Empire (and Fascism) really is.
Cody had won that confrontation. He defused the situation and now there was a door open for a dialogue about how to move forward together. But that's not what the Empire wants, the Empire wants power and control at all costs.
Sidious laid out several insidious (*shaps finger guns* Ey) long term plans to get himself where he is, but as soon as he got there he stopped thinking on that level because he figured now all he had to do was keep a strangle hold on the galaxy to keep winning. But getting power is a different process than maintaining it. Sure, violence is a useful tool but it doesn't make a place that wants you in charge.
If they had followed Cody's lead and negotiated, they could have found a way to have influence on the planet while keeping the Governor in her position to keep the people happy. Then the Empire uses this as a way to spread influence through similar set ups to expand their domain. Soft power builds and they become a benign part of life on all of these planets.
But they just kill and conquer and never think about what happens the next day, or a week later, or even 16 years later. They only want power now, and then they fall to everyone that crawled out from the beaten and broken path in their wake.
This episode was INSANE it’s so DARK
I think it's possible that even though the chip is removed, the damage the Empire did to his brain might need a "reinhibitor" chip to counteract. Cross hair willingly has a new chip made to make him loyal to squad 99 and the Republic, not the Empire. The Rebellion to Restore the Republic-its easy to understand how many clones probably did join the Rebellion, of course there weren't as many, I wonder if Cody will meet Obi Wan, or Ashoka after he's had his chip removed
The name of the episode is derived from the poem – "The Solitary Reaper". Both the poem & the episode depicted a lonely person & the world changing rapidly around them.
This was probably my favorite episode of the Bad Batch so far, it was just-haunting, and kind of reminds me of zuko alone