Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 10, COMMON GROUND has finally released, and with
it we returned to the heart of the confederacy of independent systems, the separatist Capital,
Raxus Secundus.
So, lets break down everything that went down in the episode, and how the story will move
forward, now that we’ve seen almost all of the trailer footage.
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So, the episode begins on the planet Raxus, where the empire have firmly taken control
of the former Separatist capital.
The Senator for Raxus, obviously a true believer of the Separatist cause, is disgusted that
he will not have to follow the new Empire and become a puppet for it.
The senator’s droid tells him that if he refuses to comply, he will end up arrested
like the other senators.
Now this is actually a reference to a group known as the “Delegation of 2000”, which
was first seen in the Deleted Scenes of Revenge of the Sith.
It was lead by Padme, Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, Jar Jar Binks and many others, and they presented
a document called “the petition of 2000 to palpatine”, denouncing his refusal to
hand back emergency powers and his transition to imperial Governors.
Obviously this was a horrible idea in hindsight, as Palpatine now had a list of every single
one of his enemies in the senate.
As you probably can guess, Palpatine very quickly arrested and executed almost all of
them, just like the droid is referencing.
Following this, the senator for Raxus Avi Singh is asked to say a few words by the local
Imperial Leader, Captain Bragg, in support of the Empire, but deep down in his heart
he knows he can’t do it.
To separatist believers like him, The Empire is just the next iteration of the government
they despised, the Republic.
He is then dragged away by the Clone Troopers stationed on Raxus, and heavy armaments including
an AT-TE are brought in to brutally suppress the citizens.
Luckily however, the Senator has a dead man's switch, which his droid immediately activates
after he is taken away.
His droid sends out a message for help which reaches Cid Back on Ord Mantell.
Cid then delivers the missions objective the Bad Batch, but they aren’t too happy to
be helping out a separatist, since they were literally sworn enemies not too long ago,
but of greater concern to Hunter, is Omega’s safety.
Cid offers to watch over Omega at the den, but Hunter doesn’t exactly trust her either,
but really he has no other choice.
So after receiving the mission, they travel to the Capital of Raxus Secundus, Raxalon,
the home of the old Separatist Senate building.
When they touch down on the surface, Echo and Tech get into a bit of heated argument
about working with the separatists, and Echo is understandably disgusted by it, but again,
they really don’t have a choice.
Obviously, Echo was wayyyy more hard done by the Separatists than any of the others,
since they literally turned him into a cyborg to extract Republic strategies out of him.
You just can’t blame him.
Following this, they are greeted by the Senator’s protocol droid who begins to give a long winded
explanation about the situation, but having learned from Cid, the Batch tell the droid
that they just don’t care.
After this, they begin sneaking around the compound where the Senator is being held,
and they are forced to knock out and completely body quite a few of their fellow brothers
in order to get past the surveillance systems that have now been set up by the Empire.
It is good to see them use stun on their blaster, unlike a certain Coruscant Guard Trooper,
although they were throwing clones out of windows not too long ago…
So, when it’s a life or death situation, they’ll do what they must.
Back at Cid’s den, Omega once again shows off her ridiculously sharp intuition, beating
the two guys from the Prison on Oba Diah in the Martez arc, at a game of Dejarik, which
was of course first seen in a new hope.
Cid instantly gets the bright idea of using Omega’s intuition to start gambling, and
Omega ruthlessly asks for a 60% cut…
There are a lot of theories that say this sharp intuition could be hinting at light
force sensitivity.
And with all the connections to Palpatine, Snoke and force sensitive cloning from Mando
and now this show, it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some slight connection.
And just to add on top of this, we know from the Darth Plagueis novel that force sensitives,
and those with high midichlorian counts, were banned from Gambling in many locations around
the Galaxy because of their obvious advantage.
So this could be another hint at Omega’s true power.
Back on Raxus, the Bad Batch manages to bust into the room where Captain Bragg is about
to use an interrogation droid on the Senator, and manages to stun her to the ground.
The interrogator droid has been used in everything from A new Hope, to Rebels, to the Mandalorian
and even the Vader comics.
It’s definitely an iconic and threatening droid.
Interestingly, the senator says the word Draconian, which is based on the Greek legislator Draco,
who obviously didn’t exist in the Galaxy.
But because this is Star Wars, there is often a good explanation to patch things up.
In the universe, there is a language called Tionese, which was the language of the planet
Tion and that happens to be the Origin of all the Greek letters in the Galaxy, like
Alpha, Omega, Lambda, Delta and all the others.
But either way, that’s just a fun little connection to the real world.
After this, the Bad Batch’s position is quickly compromised, and they soon have the
entire city’s clone garrison on their tails.
The group are forced to make some pretty risky maneuvers, but they eventually commandeer
one of the AT-TE vehicles… but they don’t manage to get far before receiving some brutal
damage.
The Senator is eventually forced to throw his esteemed Vase at one of hte Clone Troopers
to help in the escape, but after he does so, he admits that he never much cared for it
anyway.
Following this, the group manage to escape back to their ship, but Senator Singh is having
second thoughts about leaving, wondering if he’s doing the right thing by leaving his
people along on Raxus, while he flees.
The others quickly reassure him that if he doesn’t leave, he’ll likely be captured
anyway, and won't be able to fight for them.
And to add to that, Echo even tells the senator that He should live to fight another day,
a nice callback to Hardcase’s line when he sacrificed himself above Umbara in the
Clone wars.
After this happens, the Bad Batch arrive back on Ord Mantell, and on their way to Cid’s
den they notice something strange.
There’s an awful lot more attention down this side alley than they’re used to, which
really can’t be a good thing.
They are then greeted by speeders full of people, dismounting and rushing into Cid’s
den to join the fun…
At this point the batch are deeply concerned, but they move inside anyway.
Inside, Cid is coaching Omega into winning game after game, after game of Dejarik, making
them both a lot of money, but more importantly, paying off the Bad Bathc’s debt to Cid.
This whole thing is reminiscent of the Episode of Avatar the Last Airbender called the Runaway,
where Toph and the Crew use their powers to beat notorious gamblers…
Either way, Omega and Cid see no problem with this, but Hunter on the other hand is concerned
that it might be teaching her the wrong lesson.
Wrecker on the other hand, is ecstatic at Omega’s new skill, and gives Hunter a very
dodgy look.
As the SEnator and Cid go off to discuss the terms of their payment, Omega tells Hunter
that she only started playing the dejarik games because she wanted to be useful, and
not left out of squad missions.
AFter hearing this, Hunter realizes his mistake at leaving Omega behind, and offers her a
deal.
He gives her the chance to play one game of Dejarik, and if she wins, Hunter promises
to never leave her out of another mission again…
And for some reason, the writers decided to leave us wondering, and not show us the result
of the Game.
With only 6 episodes to go however, I think Omega definitely won, because she can’t
be left out of any more missions with only 6 episodes remaining.
And that is where the Episode was cut off.
Next week's episode is called Devil’s deal, so we’ll likely see the bad batch come face
to face with someone they would consider on the bad side, and be forced into a deal with
him.
Put your bets down in the comments of which familiar face w might see who fits the description
of Devil’s deal.
So that is my full breakdown for Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 1 Episode 10 COMMON
GROUND.
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of the Bounty hunters comic series which is going absolutely crazy right now, and will
be tying directly into the Book of Boba Fett with Boba having flashbacks to the events
of the comics.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video Cheers guys, hope to see
you in the next one!