Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 4, Cornered has finally released on disney+,
and with it we were given a look at Fennec Shand’s early days in the bounty hunting
game, and her hunt for a very important target.
The episode was packed full of connections to the star wars films, books, comics and
games, so let's break them all down.
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The action begins with Hunter suggesting that the crew land on the planet Idaflor and go
into hiding for their own safety from the empire.
Wrecker and Omega are upset by this, because they want some action, but the decision is
quickly made for them as tech reports that their ship, the Havoc Marauder is running
low on fuel.
They will instead be forced to divert to the planet Pantorra, leaving Omega in amazement…
Idaflor is an anagram of Florida, where Galaxy’s edge is located, and combined with some of
the other Galaxy’s edge references in the episode it could hint that we’re going to
be visiting Batuu later in the series.
Although most likely, this is just a fun little joke from Dave Filloni and the writers.
In addition to that you will course remember Panotorra if you’ve seen The Clone Wars,
which is home to the blue skinned panotrran people, including Riyo Chuchi.
If you haven’t seen the Clone Wars, you’ll probably also know about the Pantorrans without
realizing, as George Lucas played the Chairman of Pantorra, Baron Notluwiski Papanoida in
Revenge of the Sith, and his daughter played Chi Eekway Papanoida, the senator who took
over after Riyo Chuchi.
Following this, the crew land on Pantorra and try to get their ship looked at by a shady,
local businessman, and they completely fumble their way through bribing him, not realizing
that they actually have to give him credits in order to stay out of the imperial databases...
showing that they really don’t have much experience in the dark underworld and being
on the run.
After this, the bad Batch are given another taste of the criminal underworld, when their
repairman almost immediately turns around to sell them out, to a very familiar face.
Although, they don’t yet know it.
The man, who belongs to the Sullustan species, quickly turns over their information to a
bounty hunter named Fennec Shand, who you will of course remember was on the run with
a large bounty on her head, after she arrested many of her former employers during the time
of the Mandalorian.
She was eventually shot down by Toro Calican and was thought dead by large parts of the
criminal underworld, until she was given a new lease on life, being saved by the man
himself, Boba Fett.
Boba gave her a brand new, mechanical lower abdomen, leading Fennec to swear her services
to Boba and team up with him.
She eventually helped Boba and Din Djarin’s crew to defeat Moff Gideon, allowing the safe
Rescue of Grogu by Luke Skywalker, before finally travelling back to Jabba’s palace
with Boba, where she sits beside him as he kills Bib Fortuna to take the throne…
And we’ll find out what happens next in her story in the Book of Boba Fett, releasing
this december.
Interestingly, Fennec Shand has a hologram of Omega, suggesting that the Empire OR more
likely, the kaminoans are after her, as they need a new clone Genome to replace the highly
degraded one of Jango fett.
On the repairman’s desk You can also see a mini Sorosuub 3000 luxury personal yacht,
which is a very cool ship, and was the model of the Lady Luck, piloted by Lando Calrissian,
and the Fortune and Glory, piloted by Hondo Ohnaka during the clone wars.
Definitely a nice little connection.
As the crew arrive in town, Omega, Echo and Hunter are greeted by a crowd of cheering
Pantorrans, all celebrating the end of the Clone Wars and the restoration of peace and
order to the galaxy, but are quickly scared off when they notice the same hologram of
Admiral Rampart, telling citizens to get their chains codes is playing, just like on Saleucami.
They eventually reach a goods broker and hunter attempts to sell a piece of military equipment
known as a Pyro denton, which was first introduced in the Force Awakens and played a pivotal
role in destroying Starkiller Base.
These are the same devices that Chewwie detonated during the death of Han Solo.
Following this, the goods trader sees Echo in his full body disguise and believes he
is a droid, making him offer quite a few credits to buy him.
Echo is quite upset at having to be sold off like a droid, but Hunter convinced him because
they really need the money.
While this transaction is happening, Omega’s attention is caught by a nearby cart of Voorpak
creatures, which first appeared in Canon, in Solo a star wars story which was literally
just its fur, and featured in Star Wars: Resistance.
The voorpaks actually also existed in Legends, being native to the planet naboo.
Padme’s niece, Ryoo actually owned one, who was named Sanani, and she would often
dress it up to go on adventures.
unfortunately one of the creatures steals her clone trooper doll, causing her to rush
off after it….
And get separated from Hunter and Echo, with Fennec firmly on her trail…
She also says hello there to the creature, which is an awesome little nod to Master Kenobi.
The Clone trooper doll is also a clear nod to both Jyn Erso’s stormtrooper doll from
Rogue one, and Rey’s rebel doll from the Force awakens.
Omega is then found by Fennec, and she acts like a friend in order to capture her and
take her back to collect the bounty…
Omega has absolutely no clue that anything is wrong, until the hunter thankfully arrives
and comes to save her, getting into a heated battle with the bounty hunter and eventually
causing hunter to lose Omega.
You can really hear the pain in Hunter’s voice as he reports the young girl’s disappearance
to the rest of the batch, which shows you just how good Dee Bradley baker can be…
The rest of the crew then leap into action to rescue Omega, but Fennec is still giving
chase.
After this happens, tech hacks into the city’s surveillance systems and manages to see Omega
enter the sewers, allowing wrecker to finally rescue Omega… but this time he’s going
to fight Fennec Shand… that is until he is flung straight into a wall and is knocked
into a pretty shape, hitting his head yet again…
Hunter gets absolutely bodied by Fennec, really showing you just how tough of a bounty hunter
she is.
I’m really getting worried for that inhibitor chip after 2 bad hits.
Luckily he had his helmet on this time.
After wrecker is left in a very bad state on the ground by Fennec, Omega rushes up a
nearby ladder trying to escape, and eventually comes out at the top of a massive tower, hanging
high above the pantorran skyline…
She is then knocked over the ledge, and manages to hang on for dear life, but her grip is
quickly slipping.
Luckily, she is saved by Fennec Shand, who obviously still wants to capture her, but
this time Omega is able to shake the bounty hunter off and get back onto Hunter’s speeder.
Honestly, this whole scene really had the feel of the Attack of the Clone Speeder chase
scene, and I’m pretty sure some of the sounds from the film were actually used in some parts
of the chase here, so that’s another awesome little connection.
This then leads to a massive chase through the city between Fennec, Omega and hunter,
while Echo pulls together his own droid squad from the back of the dealer’s shop, before
freeing them and taking them back to the ship to perform the repairs they need to get off
Pantorra.
In the group is also an LE-series droido named Clink, which is a droid introduced in the
Star Wars: Resistance series, he’s honestly a really cool little droid, and given the
screen time the whole droid squad got this episode, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get
another cameo from them somewhere else in the series when Echo or the batch are in need.
Throughout the chase we see just how ruthless Fennec Shad really is, as she throws a civilian
off of his speeder, killing him instantly and using it to continue the chase.
She also has no problem shooting a pantorran officer right through the chest, also killing
him in order stay in the hunt for Omega.
None of this is really surprising, considering the Reputation she had gained by this point
in time in the bounty world.
Eventually, Fennec pays a visit to the Sullustan man from earlier and he believes he’s about
to be killed off for failing to keep Omega and the Batch Batch on Pantorra, but instead
of putting a blaster bolt between his eyes, Fennec calmly pays the man for his work and
tells him to contact her if he ever hears anything from the bad Batch or omega again
in the future…
A very honorable act compared to the ruthless, cold blooded killings she was committing before.
And to end the episode off, Fennec walks out to her ship and contacts her mysterious boss
through the comms device, warning the unknown figure on the other end that she was not successful
in capturing Omega, but will not be stopping.
She will do anything in her power to track down Omega and the Bad Batch…
This leaves us with big big question to close out the episode.
Who is the dark and mysterious figure on the other end of the line.
Is it Lama Su and the kaminoans, who we know are tying to get omega back, or have the Empire
finally figured out the truth behind Omega and now want her for their own cloning experiments?
Could it also be just another ruthless bounty hunter, higher up the chain?
Whichever one it is, this marks a pretty dark mission, and one that but Clone Force 99 and
Omega especially in severe danger for the near future…
I can’t wait to see what’s next.
So that is my full breakdown of Star WArs: The Bad Batch Season 1 episode 4 cornened.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!