All right, so the bad batch season two episode five is now out.
In this video, we're going to be breaking down
the new episode,
talking about all the stowaways Easter eggs in it and the hidden details
you might have missed in the 20 minute entry.
There's clear allusions to Indiana
Jones, the fifth element, and even a bit of Horizon Zero.
Dawn, I think, and I can't wait to get into it.
First, though, blah, blah, blah, thumbs up, blah, blah, blah.
Well, now the wait.
I'm your host, Paul, a.k.a. Benedict Cumberbatch.
Now, let's get to the video.
The episode is called Entombed, and we start off
very much in the same way that we end.
We catch the bad batch in a junkyard,
which is later mirrored by the destruction that we see in the final few scenes.
Here we catch a mega and wrecker
hunting for Potts, which is when she comes across a doll that works as a compass.
This ends up being similar to a set we find out which we saw Kylo
using at the start of Rise of Skywalker, which we don't talk about.
Now, you might notice
that Raccah even has more color in his uniform in this episode
that shows how they're slowly diverging from their imperial mentality.
I've discussed this in our other videos, and the Empire very much
have the color dial down to being gray, black and white.
Even Commander Cody, who donned orange in the movies, has had his stuff scaled back
to being gray, whereas the bad batch have gained more color.
This shows how they're breaking free and becoming more rebellious, refusing
to conform to the lack of diversity in the Empire's uniforms.
And they also get a compress.
And this looks like it's from an 86 assault transport.
From here we get to sets Paula to catch Wanda Sykes is feeding Noah.
Noah goes, I don't know. I just met her.
Now she's spinning a yarn to the week
in Arthurian, who I only learned last week are actually called Catch and BOLO.
This idea of going off in a wild story is very much built into these character.
And come the end of the episode,
we see her back to her old tricks doing the same thing to Omega.
We learn she's a pirate there, refers to herself as a treasure hunter.
And this is very much mirrored in Doctor Aphra.
Aphra made her debut in the Darth Vader comics, and she's often
described as being star Wars as answer to Indiana Jones.
He tells them a story about an actor more pulling her down and the way
it's described makes it sound like an offshoot species of a die no guy.
These giant sea spiders grab
Luke in a new hope and even full on in shadows of the Empire.
She talks about how she managed to get a pearl from one.
And these being inside creatures is something
that we've also seen in the case of great dragons.
They have them inside their stomachs.
And at the end of the first episode of The Mandalorian season
two, we saw one being fished out after piling the scraps on the holodeck.
We hear they've got to regulate out,
which was a component in Star Wars that was used on jetpacks.
About what catches V's eyes is, of course, the compass.
Devices like these are, of course used throughout fiction,
and they're often put in place to help to progress the story.
We've seen it in the aforementioned Wayfinder and also the way this device
works reminds me a lot of the one from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It's spherical, and once the Droid shines a light through, it reveals certain
aspects like the stuff of RA, C-3PO and R2-D2 even appeared
in Woolmark in the movie, showing how it's all connected.
A physicist from the Cold War binary system, which is off the map.
She says the best treasures usually found on them.
And if you cast your mind back to Attack of the Clones
and you'll remember that Kamino was removed from the Jedi archives.
This is where the clones were from, making them the best treasures and it's
sort of like poetry.
They right now are trying to re system likely means three sons and in a new hope
we saw how tattooing Queen was located in the binary one.
They touch down and we can see that
the land has been raised and that it's now completely uninhabitable.
Scorch marks lay in the ground and these foreshadow the destructive power
that will see unleashed later on upon arriving there.
The compass activates
and it starts to lead the way back to the big giraffe horse thingy.
A huge.
It adds to Ed Marvel pointing out that the planet is very menacing
and echoes Dathomir, which we explored heavily in Fall in Order.
The markings on the tree and overall units mirror
that well, that being potential threats around every corner.
The episode also pulls heavily from the puzzles in that game, namely
the ones that you run into on Xapo and Ilium.
Weirdly, I was watching The Fifth Element the other night and the Stones,
and that all had lane markings on them to to know what it required to activate
these, to appear on the handles poking out the wall.
And it might not be intentional about, but it's just something I noticed because
I've been watching Ruby on my man Ruby Rod moment Comment Good women come in.
Woman
Heading back thousands of years ago.
This machine pre-dates the Jedi, possibly being around the time of the Jedi high.
This was the order that preceded them and its engine Technology was lost to time
and maybe before that.
But they delve deeper into the heart of the mountain with the music.
Even riffing on John Williams original writer score.
He, of course, also composed the music for Star Wars, so
his music lends itself very nicely to this scene.
The whole place is booby trapped and they get stuck inside
before a megabus, the compass to allow them to go further.
As they venture in, they're attacked by giant underworld creatures
who live in the caverns and stalk the landscape outside.
Kind of reminded me of the spiders from Lost in Space, which sorry
for reminding you that that movie exists.
I apologize.
Now, the tunnels themselves are also similar.
The caverns in Pitch black in aliens,
with these creatures moving in the shadows and chasing them through in and out.
To the last crusade.
We see Hunter making his way across a tile floor,
and this collapses, similar to the way it did in the movie.
This was then later adapted into the Tomb Raider games,
and it's become a staple of treasure hunting films.
If you ever watch any of them.
And the episode isn't too full of Easter eggs in all honesty,
and the ones I've mentioned before might not even be intentional.
But bits like this
and of course playing on the clichés are always pop up in those films.
In either way,
they have to place the compass in the wall in order to guide the way forward.
You then come upon the center and this activates upon fear, removing
moving the central idol again.
Indiana Jones Easter eggs in the place
with treasures being removed is what often causes things to start up
here, though, we see a death machine starting to walk across the land.
When the machine rose up and blasted its horn.
It reminded me a lot of the War of the Worlds,
especially because of the fact
it was buried in the ground for thousands and thousands of years.
The idea of destroying landscapes is something that's also been laced
throughout the season too, with us learning.
It happened on Duke's home and the Empire was threatening to do to D6
they've already done on Kamino too.
These attacks foreshadow the Death Star.
Seeing this destroy the planet so easily, it actually makes me wonder if the Empire
might even come across the machine and then use it as a way to harness
the power from it.
It's a long shot, but seeing this constant repetition of the land
being destroyed makes me think that foreshadowing the Death Star.
Anyway, rest in peace.
The oatmeal we barely knew.
The feed does say that meals, databanks, banks
are stored on the ship and that they can be fixed up.
So I have no doubt that will see the little guy back
be in the gang, fight the creature inside to place the treasure back.
And in doing so, it manages to destroy the machine and an uncharted esq ending.
They don't get any treasure, but
they do make some friends along the way, which is the most important lesson.
Working with Spears. Let them own too, so far.
But they've discovered the legend was real.
So we.
We had a good time.
I guess.
Now, Hunter says it's good that no one can ever activate the machine.
But I guess we're going to see because I'm thinking
they might do some stuff with it at Star here.
Anyway, we starts talking about a special chalice,
possibly giving
nod to the golden one that any discovers when looking for the Holy Grail
will not get into that, though.
And what we will get to is my thoughts on the episode.
And again, you know, this was a really solid one.
I know it's not the overarching story.
It's not ten out of ten.
But yeah,
I just like these nice little breaks that let's explore the galaxy
and get to know what the characters are like.
Isaiah spending some time with me and also
just a nice little cool treasure hunting adventure anyway.
And of course it's not going to reinvent the wheel as it's been
in the thousands of times before.
But you know, for a Wednesday morning, I'm on my phone, so we'll shoot me.
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