It's not about efficiency or competency.
Spoilers Bad Batch Season 2 - This Fall
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It's not about efficiency or competency.
Yes, that's the point. Bureaucratic decisions are often illogical and arbitrary. So if this situation is illogical and arbitrary, that does not reflect on the credibility of the story.
It seemed to be more a means to get as many clone troopers killed as mundanely as possible. No glory in battle. Unlikely early in the season when the Empire would send in a small force of clones to do the hard work, than send in the Stormtroopers for clean up and occupation duty.
I use to think the Empire would be a little more practical with the retirement of the Clone Army. Stop production but use all the clones for as long as practical, including training the kids to be troopers. That way they would still have a relatively effective force for the first ten years of the Empire and those would fade over the next ten years so by Yavin you wouldn't have many left.
But no the Empire is both pety and evil without reason.
I use to think the Empire would be a little more practical with the retirement of the Clone Army. Stop production but use all the clones for as long as practical, including training the kids to be troopers. That way they would still have a relatively effective force for the first ten years of the Empire and those would fade over the next ten years so by Yavin you wouldn't have many left.
But no the Empire is both pety and evil without reason.
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To project power and control.
Bingo.
Another great episode.
Damn, the Empire really turned on the clones quick, they went from being The Grand Army of the Republic, to guarding armor on a frozen turd of a planet.
I had assumed this was all going to lead to Crosshair also turning on the empire and rejoining the Batch, but it looks like they're going somewhere else with his story.
Damn, the Empire really turned on the clones quick, they went from being The Grand Army of the Republic, to guarding armor on a frozen turd of a planet.
I had assumed this was all going to lead to Crosshair also turning on the empire and rejoining the Batch, but it looks like they're going somewhere else with his story.
It reminds me of the scene of Temuera Morrison as the bearded, homeless 501st Legion vet seen asking Obi-Wan for spare credits in Obi-Wan Kenobi and what somebody said. Anakin Skywalker would never have let anybody from the 501st fall that low and be forgotten. Darth Vader would.
And that's the Galactic Empire.
Some will still go on and teach at the imperial academies. At least one will still be serving at the battle of Hoth if the books are to go by.
Bad Batch isn’t the first story of the new canon to imply clones were phased out relatively quickly. One of the earliest new canon novels ‘Tarkin’ was set 5 years after ROTS, and there was only one Clone serving Vader and that was treated as unusual.
Bad Batch isn’t the first story of the new canon to imply clones were phased out relatively quickly. One of the earliest new canon novels ‘Tarkin’ was set 5 years after ROTS, and there was only one Clone serving Vader and that was treated as unusual.
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Wasn't that a video game?
Also in the original Battlefront II game, as the Battle of Hoth was titled "Our Finest Hour" in the 501st journals.
Of the pieces of media illustrating that transition from clones to stormtroopers I think that game captured a lot of it quite well. Bad Batch has potential with this as well.
The original Battlefront 2 had the 501st still made up of mostly clones and participating in many battles post-Prequels including hoth. In Legends one of the reasons they shut down the Kaminoan cloning was because they secretly created their own batch of Clones to fight against the Empire, which was also depicted in the same game. After that the Empire focused on regular recruits and clones from different genetic sources.
The book I was referring to just had a singular clone at Hoth IIRC.
Well that was a refreshingly wholesome episode. Kinda saw the tsunami coming though, what with the high sea wall, the old destroyed ruins down by the waterline, and the "we recently expanded the village" bit. Still, good environmental storytelling though production design!
Guess this means we're done with Ord Mantel as the homebase for the show, at least until the Empire shows up to build . . . oh I don't know, maybe a top secret facility for archiving it's most sensitive technological blueprints, perhaps even somewhere to relocate a certain in-progress construction project from Geonosis. I mean it's just the island that's called Pabu, not the planet, right? I'm not saying it's definitely Scarif, but I'm not saying it's definitely not Scarif either . . .
Guess this means we're done with Ord Mantel as the homebase for the show, at least until the Empire shows up to build . . . oh I don't know, maybe a top secret facility for archiving it's most sensitive technological blueprints, perhaps even somewhere to relocate a certain in-progress construction project from Geonosis. I mean it's just the island that's called Pabu, not the planet, right? I'm not saying it's definitely Scarif, but I'm not saying it's definitely not Scarif either . . .
Pabu's design was very interesting. It reminded me of a spiral ziggurat. This was a good episode.
Pretty good episode, but I did find it contrived that a huge natural disaster coincidentally struck just after our merry band of heroes arrived. I was expecting that Cid would turn out to have had a tracker on their ship, or that the Empire would find them, and the danger to befall Pabu would've been a consequence of their arrival instead of just dumb luck.
I'm also surprised they stayed at the end. I thought that after seeing the people of Pabu work together to save each other, Hunter and the gang would've realized they have a responsibility to help people out in the galaxy and would've chosen to leave paradise behind in the name of duty. I mean, I'm sure that whatever happens next week will compel them to leave again, but I expected it here.
The animators did an excellent job building a visual striking location and creating the tsunami.
I'm also surprised they stayed at the end. I thought that after seeing the people of Pabu work together to save each other, Hunter and the gang would've realized they have a responsibility to help people out in the galaxy and would've chosen to leave paradise behind in the name of duty. I mean, I'm sure that whatever happens next week will compel them to leave again, but I expected it here.
The animators did an excellent job building a visual striking location and creating the tsunami.
Yeah, but this is a common plot.
