In contrast to most Star Wars movies and shows, The Bad Batch is barely concerned with saving a far-gone galaxy.
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Even if Luke Skywalker weren’t weeks or months old when The Bad Batch takes place, this wouldn’t be the sort of series in which a Jedi from a famous family waltzes in to turn the tide. Instead, it centered on its core characters’ efforts to escape the sunken, disintegrating city-and, in the process, escape the lives they were intended to lead. Unlike the series finale of The Clone Wars or the season-ending episodes of The Mandalorian-a trio of tough acts to follow-“Kamino Lost” featured no combat, no cameos, and no massive surprises that could be spoiled for fans who didn’t watch right away. “Kamino Lost,” the 16th episode of the animated series (which was recently renewed), brought an end to a season that was mostly satisfying for its target audience, if a lot less sensational than The Mandalorian-or, in all likelihood, the live-action series in the franchise’s future. As Hunter tells Crosshair in Part 1 of the finale, “We’re loyal to each other, not some Empire.” By then, it’s become clear to all the clones except Crosshair that the Empire isn’t loyal to them. For Omega, who turns her back on Kamino after that last lingering gaze, home is where her brothers are. Over the course of its first season, they find a way forward without the Republic that gave purpose to their lives-and, in their case, gave them lives in the first place. The Bad Batch is about its protagonists’ struggle to make their own home in a galaxy where they’ve seemingly been rendered redundant, and where the institution they once served has turned twisted and evil. But we do get to choose where we go, what we do, and whom we love. As the story of the clone army makes clear, we don’t get to choose where we come from.
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Yet in the episode’s penultimate scene, Omega’s eyes are full of loss and sadness as she stares at the smoke spiraling from the spot where Tipoca City once stood.Įven an inhospitable planet like Kamino can seem special if it’s the only home you have. When the city, bombarded by the Empire, sinks beneath the waves in Friday’s first-season finale, it takes Omega and her brothers with it, nearly dragging them down to their deaths.
Less obvious, perhaps, is why she would mourn Kamino’s capital’s destruction. It’s also apparent why she would make Hunter, her brother and the leader of Clone Force 99, promise not to bring her back.
It’s understandable, then, that Omega, the enhanced clone created as a pure replication of Fett, would want to leave Kamino in the premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. It’s an artificial, antiseptic place without a solid surface-a soldier assembly line. Kamino, the homeworld of countless clones who shared the genes of Jango Fett, is where the future fighters were decanted, but not delivered trained, but not raised valued, but not loved tested, but rarely rewarded. You’d think it would be hard for clone commandos to get homesick.
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