Star Wars: The Bad Batch - S01E09 "Lost Bounty"

Taun We - condemmed to death from the minute this order was given.

Another highly entertaining episode injected with a degree of peril as Omega finds herself stuck between a battle of bounty hunters; Fennec and Cad Bane. We discover that Fennec was hired personally by Nala Se without the knowledge of the Kaminoan PM. This adds credibility to Fennec’s “caring” persona towards Omega in this episode and the previous time when one was unsure how sincere Fennec was back then. Turns out, she was actually more truthful than we thought. As she dramatically fights it out with Cad Bane, memories of The Clone Wars episodes are constantly reignited in my mind. Their jostling for advantage in battle is clever, as is their armoury and tricks of the trade. One might think Cad Bane has had it when tied up and sent flying over the edge, but alas those rocket boots save the day! His arm flame throwers also never fail to be dramatic. An absolutely delicious tussle in what can only be described as atmospheric (quite literally) and gorgeous scenery. The mist/dust/cloud effects were like butter melting on top a baked potato – absolutely dreamy. One assumes this is an old Kaminoan factory now abandoned for some reason? On a different planet? Different star system to Kaminoan? Whatever fell out one of those massive glass tubes looked a little Snoke like but think I saw big eyes on it so probably not, and it’s far too early for a Snoke wannabe to lurking about. Still, very intriguing. 

Cad Bane’s sidekick droid Todo was the star of the episode. As undoubtedly useful to Cad as he is, he’s also rather hapless at times, being totally misled by Omega initially, and failing at quite a few tasks subsequently. Still, he was a hoot and very much added to a great episode. The quick escape from Crosshair at the start was unexpected as one thought that had all been concluded somewhat last week but nevertheless that was the only minor oddity to the episode for me. Everything else was top notch entertainment. We also got even more reinforcement of Hunter becoming a father figure to Omega as previously it had really been only Wrecker shown to have the best relationship with her. Of course, one totally knows the end sentence is going to end up slapping him in the face with his promise of her never going back to Kamino. She’s SO GOING BACK TO KAMINO! 100% guaranteed now he’s said that. Also, given we find out exactly what it unique about Omega now, and it’s nothing to do with force power DNA as the conspiracy theories might have thought, but she’s essentially Boba’s sister? Alpha was Boba and Omega is, well, Omega. The only other last remaining clone of original pure DNA goodness. The likelihood of Boba showing up has now just gone up a big notch too. 

She's so going back to Kamino!