Warning: There will be spoilers for the Bad Batch Season 2 double episode finale.
If you haven’t seen it, proceed with extreme caution.
Never ever do I hold back.
Not even if there’s a fire.
Yeah…I’m probably going to make several videos on the Bad Batch Season 2.
Why?
Because it was that good.
No one I know in real life watches the show.
Wait… real life?
That makes me sound like a life a fake life, or something.
Unless the fringe is right, and we are living in a simulation.
In which case, meh…what’s the point?
The point is that you are my only outlet for thoughts and ideas I have when it comes to
the Bad Batch.
The emotional ups and downs the Bad Batch has brought me…all on your shoulders.
I know that’s a huge responsibility for you.
Such is the burden you must carry.
I’m sidetracked.
Just go with it.
Anyways, the Bad Batch Season 2 has a lot going on.
And it’s a prime example of not judging a book by its cover.
In the beginning of the second season of the Bad Batch, even I was questioning what the
heck was going on.
But I reeled it in and remembered how Dave Filoni creates.
Something that seems unimportant in one episode will become a major plot point many episodes,
or even seasons down the road.
Remember the Zillo Beast?
How many years had it been since it was captured in the Clone Wars?
I think Dave Filoni likes us to drift off and draw us into a false sense of apathy.
Then…BAM!
He draws us back in and makes us laugh or cry.
In the case of the Bad Batch season 2 finale…yeah…I think the stock prices on tissues just went
up.
Look at HIM!
Dave Filoni!
Driving the free market prices!
But contained within the Bad Batch season 2 are a great many hidden messages and meanings.
And one of which will change the way we view the Rebellion vs the Empire…forever.
Or maybe it has already been changed.
I dunno.
He may have just solidified it for us.
It seems this shift has been happening throughout the newer Star Wars stories.
From Andor to the Mandalorian to the Bad Batch.
And that’s the topic I’m going to be all chit chatty about today.
Confused?
Well, you won’t be by the time I’m finished.
So, stick around and let’s see what kind of trouble we can get into.
But before I put you to sleep with my Bob Ross-esque voice and bad jokes, a quick word
from the one who makes this all possible…me!
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Wait…no…I don’t want poop to smack Star Wars in the face!
I like Star Wars.
I don’t like poop.
ANYWAYS…
It’s like the saying goes, if you want to be a leader, then lead.
Don’t wait for permission.
Let’s get back to the emotional pain that is the Bad Batch.
I want to
focus on what Star Wars had been to us up until about 2006 before I move into the Bad
Batch stuff.
Why 2006?
I don’t know, I wanted to come up with a year that was post Revenge of the Sith.
The exact date doesn’t matter.
For all I know, it could have been 2012 when Disney bought Lucasfilm and Star Wars with
it.
Nope!
Scratch all that!
Let’s just go back to 2016, when Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was released.
It holds more significance to what I’m trying to say.
(Get on with it)
When Star Wars released in 1977 as just that…Star Wars…we were introduced to the good rebellion
that had been fighting the evil galactic Empire.
The premise was to eliminate evil from the galaxy.
Pretty cut and dry.
I mean, good vs bad.
DUH!
Who wouldn’t get onboard with that?
It’s like saying, “no!
I hate good!
Evil is way better!
I was thinking of a horrible utopia!”
But that’s what it was…good vs evil.
Contained within this rebellion were good people.
Princess Leia Organa.
She just wanted peace and love.
NOPE!
Not that kind of love!
Han Solo.
He was a scoundrel but a good person deep down, and he cared about his friends.
Luke Skywalker, who was actually a bit late to the party because he was stuck on a farm
and preferred to dick off with his friends.
But he became the embodiment of good.
Young, naïve, and really didn’t know what he wanted until he saw a beautiful girl.
Okay, let’s stop harping on them.
I mean, Luke didn’t know she was his sister….but Leia did!
Where was I before I got sidetracked again?
Oh YEAH!
Good vs Evil!
Okay, the point is that with such cool characters as Lando Calrissean there was never a question
of who they were at the present time.
Lando was a back stabber, but he had a plan all along to free those he betrayed.
And from that moment forward he was a rebel in the fight for peace.
We got the sense that the rebellion as a whole had this great idea to hit Imperial military
targets and defeat them through open combat.
And that, when the fighting was over, they had a plan for how the galaxy should be ran.
Giving all a voice and freedom.
But now we are learning something a bit different.
That what we were seeing was the icing spread across a big pile of doo doo.
Is that bad?
I mean, is it bad that we are seeing things differently now?
Not necessarily.
It’s about depth of story.
In the original trilogy, we were seeing a fight at the end of the war.
And we weren’t shown what happened after that war or just before that moment.
In the Clone Wars we were introduced to another character, under the watchful eye of George
Lucas himself.
A character known as Saw Gerrera.
A talent scout who hailed from Onderon.
Not really.
I mean, he was from Onderon, but he wasn’t a talent scout.
He was A resistance fighter trying to eliminate the corporate presence of the separatists
on his planet.
Also, during the Clone Wars, we were reintroduced to Wilhuff Tarkin.
The one day Imperial Grand Moff who would be in charge of some dirty deeds.
We know he’s evil.
From the moment we meet Tarkin to the time he blows up and everything in between.
Evil man.
Got it?
Yay!
Now, let’s move on to the Bad Batch.
I’m taking way more time explaining this than I should.
In the finale of the Bad Batch season 2, our heroes are on a mission to track Doctor Butt
face Hemlock’s shuttle, in order to locate Crosshair and save him.
While in the military installation they run into Saw Gerrera, who has plans of blowing
up the summit meeting.
By the way, have any of you picked up on the double meaning of the title “The Summit?”
The summit meeting was held on the summit of a mountain.
I just thought that was a nice touch.
Anyways, the Bad Batch tells Saw that he can’t just blow the place up.
They need that ship tracked to save their brother.
Saw Gerrera basically says, oh well.
Sorry about your luck We have to sacrifice innocent people for the greater good.
Okay…DICK!
Then we move over to Grand Moff Tarkin…or whatever his rank is at this time.
A man who enjoys Skiing and curling.
Not the weightlifting exercise…the ice sport.
As friendly as he may seem…no wait…he isn’t friendly.
He orders the destruction of the rail line entering the facility.
He is then warned that there are troops on that line and that they will be killed.
His response?
The same as that of Saw Gerrera…I don’t care.
Even Count Dooku got on General Grievous for how he treated his Battle Droids.
Okay, so Tarkin is another DICK!
But we expect that sort of thing from evil people.
Win no matter the cost.
I don’t agree with that mindset, but like I said…we expect it from someone with no
value on other lives.
Before I get berated with comments that Saw Gerrera isn’t the typical rebel.
That he’s on the fringe.
I know.
But then we have to look at other characters like Cassian Andor, who is sanctioned to do
dirty deeds by the rebellion leadership.
Or how the New Republic is turning a blind eye to pirate attacks on outlying worlds.
Or the fact that the New Republic disregards reports of the Empire growing again.
And there are many other signs of these things within the New Republic and the rebellion.
How about the Rebellion not wanting to act against the Death Star?
An evil weapon that could destroy entire planets!
Seriously?
You have someone willing to go take care of business and you’re against their willingness
to sacrifice?
Why?
Because it could endanger your own anonymity.
So, It isn’t just Saw Gerrera.
The Rebellion was willing to sacrifice entire planets to stay safe.
Jerk faces!
alright, I’m going to calm down for a second.
Okay…I’m good.
Let’s proceed.
One of the things the season 2 finale of the Bad Batch has shown us is that Saw Gerrera
and Wilhuff Tarkin are two sides of the same coin.
And when we put it into its simplest form, the Rebellion becomes the New Republic, apathetic
and unorganized.
Where the Empire is organized, yet still apathetic to outlying issues that don’t involve the
occupation of more worlds, nor do they care about loss of life on their own side.
YO!
How are you supposed to win a war if you kill off your own soldiers?
For the love of humanity!
Do these people think about this stuff?
How did Tarkin get so high in the Imperial ranks?
Calming down again.
We can still look at the Rebellion and the New Republic as the good in the universe.
Their intentions were true enough.
But the road to chaos is paved with good intentions.
And it’s this tale side of the coin that has led to the reemergence of the Empire.
And as much as many of you don’t want to hear this, it’s starting to make more sense
as to how the First Order came to be, when we all thought the Empire was wiped out.
It makes so much more sense than a line in a movie, “somehow Palpatine returned.”
But the Bad Batch really did hide that dynamic duo of Saw Gerrera and Tarkin kind of well.
There was so much chaos going on at the time we could barely notice the true meaning behind
showing both disregarding friendly fire as something that was necessary, making one just
as bad as the other.
But we continue to root for the good guys.
Why?
Well, because they are good.
At least they say they are.
They just don’t know how to govern a large galaxy.
But neither did the Empire nor the Republic before them.
But we can probably agree that the New Republic is a tiny bit better than the Empire.
When it comes to characters like Saw Gerrera and Grand Moff Tarkin, they are willing to
sacrifice everyone except for themselves in the Bad Batch.
But their end is the same.
Both meet their fates at the hands of the Death Star.
Fitting poetry…yeah…poetry.
For a lot of the Bad Batch season 2 I have been drooling for more of the change from
the Republic to the Empire.
More about the clones being decommissioned, and more about what got us to A New Hope.
But it’s right there.
Has been throughout the whole series.
So, my hat is off to you Dave Filoni, and the writers of the Bad Batch.
Good job!
You even made me shed man tears.
That isn’t easy.
Not because I’m emotionless, but because I was raised in a time when men didn’t show
their emotions.
I’m glad there’s a switch now.
But that’s all I have for today.
I really do enjoy these moments where I get to dive deep into Star Wars, and like I said,
there will probably be many more videos on the Bad Batch coming.
Let me know in the comments of a topic in the Bad Batch you’d like me to dig into.
And yes, sometimes things are deeper than they seem on the surface.
If they aren’t, then it’s just mindless entertainment.
Before I cut out for the day, a quick word from the man who has two thumbs and pays for
these videos…me!
Hit the subscribe button and give the video a like.
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Thank you all for hanging out with me today.
Until the next video, this is Gerald, a Star Wars Fanatic wishing you all great health,
happiness, and peace.
Thank you all for watching and remember, this is the way…and positivity in the Star Wars
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