Ryan Shoots First: The Bad Batch (S1 Ep5) “Rampage”
We pick up with the Bad Batch after last week’s attack from Fennec the Bounty Hunter. They are running down leads to try and find out who has the bounty on Omega. They are looking for Sid in a small underground gambling bar. The bar owner tells them to get lost but Omega is perceptive enough to know that the lady is in fact Sid. Sid agrees to get them info on who hired Fennec but she needs them to do a job for her, cause that is how this whole Merc thing works. They need to get a kid from slavers on the other side of the planet. The plan falls apart fairly quickly resulting in the Batch being captured. Back at the ship the slavers are trying to infiltrate the ship where Omega is. She manages to escape and now will have to figure out a way to save the team.
Omega is captured while trying to infiltrate the camp but not before she is able to free a young Rancor that terrorizes the camp. While freeing the slaves they learn that Moochie is actually the Rancor’s name making this operation much more difficult. As Hunter and Echo take out the slavers Wrecker and Tech try to capture the Rancor with Wrecker taking Moochie on 1V1. The two eventually tucker each other out to the point they can get Moochie back to who in fact was Bib Fortuna. Sid tells the Batch Fennec’s name and that she has a direct contract but doesn not know who her employer is. She pays Hunter for their efforts and offers him more work if they are interested. Hunter says he will think about it as the episode ends.
Another action packed episode with some beautiful animation. Fans are getting antsy waiting for the main plot to move forward but as I said last week there is still a lot of season left. We are only a third of the way through.
Observations
- Tech getting upset cause someone else left out information… yea how does that feel.
- Wrecker immediately giving Omega a high five after Sid said she was the brains of the operation… This is good content.
- Ugh Wreckers head again… I’ve been saying they are going somewhere with that in regards to his inhibitor chip.
- It’s weird we haven’t seen the Batch’s ship become a bigger part. Dave is big on the main character’s ship, almost being a character itself, the Ghost, the Razor Crest, Anakin’s Bucket of Bolts. As far as I know I don’t think this thing has a name.
- I get they likely won’t put Omega in danger but it’s funny all the grownups put their helmets on and the kid they’re just like naaaa you’re good.
- That Bib Fortuna? Is he in cahoots with Lobot?
- I like how Omega is in the custom figures.
- Again quick thinking from Wrecker with the rock to distract everyone. He is not just a big oaf.
- The tracking shot of Moochie rampaging through was stunning, it was at the 14 minute mark.
- Wrecker just has no bones about throwing down with a Rancor, that’s pretty badass.
- So now we have to wonder if that is the Rancor Luke kills, I have to assume it is.
- I have zero theories who Fennec is working for, shot in the dark says the Kaminoians but there is little evidence other than they are some of the only ones who even know of Omegas existence.