Last night's Bad Batch was really satisfying. It was solidly written by Brooke Roberts, a woman with a long career in television writing including Boston Legal, Family Guy, and The Flash. Before that, she was a linguist for the US Army specialising in Arabic. So she would seem eminently qualified to write for a show about a former military squad.
The episode was also notably better looking than other episodes. The Batch land on a planet that looks like Monument Valley in order to extract some valuable ore from a mine Cid purchased. They find the mine with less ore then expected and, meanwhile, their ship gets stolen. And that's just the start of their problems.
I loved how logical everything felt. Every problem felt credible and the steps the Batch take to deal with each obstacle felt plausible, good ideas or bad. The fact that Wrecker didn't think to keep the ship in sight when he was on watch seemed like a plausible mistake for him to make, especially considering he couldn't keep the mine and the ship in sight at the same time. Simply put, the episode wasn't stupid, which made me happy.
Also good was the ongoing tension between Omega and Tech. I've known plenty of people like Tech who can't understand why a logical explanation doesn't "fix" the emotional reaction someone else is having.
The only part I didn't like was when Tech told Omega at the end that his way of dealing with things doesn't mean he feels them less than she does. The show should have simply acknowledged that some people have stronger emotional reactions than others. It bothered me because that's a big problem in modern culture--people who simply can't believe that other people have different internal emotional landscapes to themselves.
But, on the whole, this was a great episode, certainly one of the best in the series.
The Bad Batch is available on Disney+.
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