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• Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Identity Crisis
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“Identity Crisis” takes the focus off the clones and returns it to the Empire’s secret laboratory on Tantiss where Emerie Karr (Keisha Castle-Hughes) is read into the truth of Project Necromancer (confirming events which you likely surmised quite a long time ago). Other than confirming the evil manipulations of the Empire in kidnapping children and turning them into lab rats, which is hardly new ground, there’s not much of note in the episode other than another fan friendly cameo from another Star Wars: The Clone Wars recurring character. Emerie gets a close look at the “subjects” in these experiments, and a better understanding of who she his working for, although that doesn’t stop her from continuing to perform her duties.

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• Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Harbinger
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In what feels like an awkward bit of fan service, Star Wars: The Bad Batch brings in the character of Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman) from the The Clone Wars series as the character to deliver the (rather obvious) news about what the “M count” stands for. While also bringing back one of the most divisive terms in Star Wars canon, the episode suggests that Omega‘s (Michelle Ang) high count allows for the possibility of the Force. While Omega has never shown any Force ability, and Ventress’ “tests” don’t show anything either, the need of a clone to have access to the Force is of course central to the events of The Rise of Skywalker.

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• Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Infiltration / Extraction
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Now with Omega (Michelle Ang) and Crosshair (Dee Bradley Baker) back in the fold, Star Wars: The Bad Batch turns its attention to working the other clones back into the larger story. After capturing one of the new clone assassins targeting both senators and searching for Omega, Rex (Baker) and his team contact Hunter (Baker) unknowingly putting them in danger of another assassin. While “Infiltration” lays the foundation of the episode and brings the characters together, “Extraction” centers around the heroes racing to stay one-step ahead of the Imperials on their trail. The episodes are solid, but not without some head-scratching moments in terms of the logic given events already laid out for the show.

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