Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 8, REUNIONhas finally been released on Disney+,
and with it, we got the return of a certain bounty hunter that everyone has been waiting
for, and many believed was dead . The episode also has some awesome connections to the Star
Wars games, and the upcoming Book of Boba Fett, which give us some hints about what’s
coming in the near future.
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So, the action begins back on Kamino with Crosshair receiving information from the Scrappers
guild of Bracca, telling him that his old friends of Clone Force 99 are there.
Lamu Su, prime minister of Kamino, of course wants them back because they consider Clones
to be their property of Kamino , and for some darker reasons, but Admiral Rampart, the man
in charge of the Project War Mantle has no patience for them anymore.
As a result, he orders their immediate termination.
Back on Bracca, Wrecker is giving Omega a real trial by fire, asking her to disable
a live blast device after they had been practicing for some time…
Omega doesn’t quite get it right on her first go and is forced to go into hiding,
leaving her terrified.
Luckily, Wrecker isn’t THAT crazy, and while the blast device is real, it only emits smoke.
Unfortunately their training can’t continue any further, as the scrapper’s guild is
on their tail once again, keeping tabs on their location.
Wrecker does try to chase the Scrappers down, but with no luck.
While this does worry the Batch pretty badly, Hunter knows that they are in debt to Cid
and need to make some money immediately, or they’ll be back out on the streets.
Knowing this, he decides to raid the armory of the Jedi cruiser, hoping to uncover some
old Clone Wars Weaponry to sell.
Tech also wants to get to the bridge of the Venator to extract intelligence from the Jedi
generals who served on this ship…
On the bridge, Omega notices the ship’s proximity sensor activating and Tech brushes
it off as just a short circuit considering the whole ship is literally being scrapped…
but he’s wrong.
Multiple imperial vessels roar past the Jedi cruiser and land very close nearby, with Crosshair
and his Elite Squad on board.
While this is happening, Lama Su and Nala Se are seeking further assistance from a bounty
hunter, because they know that their situation is quickly getting dire, and the Empire are
getting closer and closer to disgradering them…
That bounty hunter is the man we’ve all been waiting for, and one that many people
thought was dead because of the deleted Scenes, Cad Bane.
Cad Bane was mentored by Jango Fett himself before the Clone Wars, and after his death
on Geonosis, Bane was quickly elevated to the status top bounty hunter in the Galaxy
during the Clone Wars.
Throughout his time hunting bounties, he worked with the likes of Aurra Sing, Bossk, Darth
Maul and many of the Galaxy’s most notorious figures.
During the Clone Wars, Bane even managed to infiltrate the Jedi temple on Coruscant to
steal a list of the force sensitive children in the Galaxy.
For those of you who don’t know, Cad Bane is featured in a deleted scene where he gets
into a heated argument with a young Boba Fett over the treatment of their captives.
Boba is sick of Cad Bane putting innocent lives in danger and causing them to live in
constant fear, so he speaks up, causing Bane and the other bounty hunters with him to turn
and draw their weapons.
Eventually, Cad Bane and Boba Fett become locked in a tense western standoff with their
hands firmly placed on their blasters, ready to fire, eventually resulting in them both
blasting each other at the same time.
Cad Bane’s blaster bolt hits Boba Fett in his helmet, giving him the infamous helmet
dent, while Cad Bane was considered dead as soon as he hit the bricks.
These scenes were considered Canon behind the scenes at Lucasfilm for many years, despite
not being official Canon and we can obviously see now that they are overwritten.
This now leaves the door wide open for Cad Bane to appear in the Book of Boba Fett as
one of the many bounty hunters which will be showing up in the series.
The Book of Boba is literally the perfect show for him to appear in, along with the
Mandalorian because Cad Bane is the embodiment of a western cowboy.
Either way, we’ll get more into Cad Bane’s connections to the Book of Boba Fett later
in the video.
Following this, Crosshair lands in front of the Bad Batch’s venator and immediately
realizes that they are jamming his signal.
At this point, the Batch are rushing to get their new supplies off the ship and to avoid
the Wrath of Crosshair at all costs.
In a tense game of cat and mouse, The Batch do their best to avoid Crosshair and his men
from tracking the down inside of the Venator, but eventually there’s nothing they can
do.
They are quickly surrounded by Clones and Elite troopers, all because Crosshair could
predict the strategy of his former friends.
Luckily, Echo manages to scomp into the Canons of the ship, before firing them and making
them collapse onto the other Clone troopers, giving them one final chance to make an escape.
While the battle is going down, Omega sadly gets her first confirmed kill on a Clone Trooper,
showing you just how brutal the inhibitor chips are, forcing brothers to fight against
Brothers, and sisters in this case.
Following this, the Batch are forced to escape through the Ion engines are the Venator, which
terrifies Wrecker as we know he’s horrified at heights.
Their escape isn’t long lived however, as Crosshair again predicts their movements and
meets them at the escape point in the engines, ready to kill his old squad mates as soon
as he gets the chance.
He then goes a step further and orders his men to turn the engine one, knowing that if
he goes through with this the Entire bad Batch would be incinerated alive.
Luckily however, the Batch manage to put blast charges around the central ring of the engine,
causing it to collapse and send scorching hot energy right in Crosshair’s direction,
pretty badly burning him.
He urgently orders his men to shut the engine off, but he suffers horrific burns before
they manage to do it.
When crosshair Does starting waking back up, sounds straight out of the Republic Commando
game are used
While this is happening, Hunter and Omega notice that Clone Troopers seem to be dropping
off without any good explanation, pointing to the fact that some mysterious figure is
lurking among them.
This figure is of course the renowned bounty hunter Cad Bane and his awesome Techno Service
droid, Todo 360.
Bane is sporting a completely new outfit from his Clone Wars one, and even a different one
from the Deleted scenes.
Following this, Cad Bane enters another Western Standoff, this time with Hunter and easily
comes out on top, leaving hunter badly injured.
This terrifies Omega, but before she can fire on Bane with her energy bow she is stopped
by Todo and is stunned to the ground.
Now if you look at this scene, it’s almost a shot for shot match to the unfinished Clone
Wars reel where Cad Bane is thought to have died.
It’s cool to see them re-use this scene for this purpose, despite the stakes being
slightly lower with no deaths.
Bane’s line about having killed many Clones could also be some subtle foreshadowing to
his Death, either in the Book of Boba Fett of somewhere else, most likely being killed
by a Clone…
Boba Fett.
This would also be a pretty fitting way for him to eventually go out, as we know he was
great friends with Boba’s Father Jango until Mace Windu took his head off.
Thankfully, Hunter’s chestplate dissipates most of the blaster bolt’s energy, leaving
him alive, but not in a good state.
The Bad Batch then evacuated the area at a rapid pace, unfortunately missing Omega.
During this escape, we get an awesome scene which is a callback to the old Republic Commando
game, with the in-visor shot and using some of the old sound effects VFX straight from
the game.
Some of these details are pulled directly from the game and really add to the feel of
the episode.
Dave Filloni has also said on many occasions that Republic Commando is his favourite Star
Wars game, so it’s definitely no surprise to see some references thrown into the show…
He even gave the Delta squad a very small Cameo appearance in the Clone Wars episode
Witches of the Mist, but we didn’t get much information other than that about them.
Recently however, in the Brand New Clone Wars encyclopedia, their Canon stories were expanded
upon, hinting at a possible return for the Detlas, especially with these new references.
That just leaves one major question regarding the Delta Squad where will they fit into the
series.
Following that, the crew manage to make it to the Havoc Marauder just in time, escaping
Bracca and finally putting some distance between themselves and Crosshair.
On the ship, Hunter is in a deep panic and exclaims to the other members of the Batch
that “they” took Omega, with pure fear in his voice.
Wrecker demands to know if it was Crosshair that took her, but Hunter tells him that it
was a bounty hunter…
This puts us right back into the chase for the next episode, probably meaning this is
a three part arc.
So that is my full breakdown of Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 8 REUNION.
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Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!