Last night's Bad Batch was okay. Not quite as interesting as last week's but a nice enough retelling of a pretty standard adventure story. It was written by Moises Zamora, creator of Selena: The Series.
It's really Oliver Twist, or at least, the thieves' plot from that book, with Bill Sikes/Fagin this time being a threatening enough big alien called Mokko. This is an often used story formula and we even saw it in one of the Star Wars movies, at the beginning of Solo, in which Han himself was an Artful Dodger.
The Bad Batch's Artful Dodger is Benni Baro (Yuri Lowenthal), who stole the Batch's ship in the previous episode. Can the Batch win over this little rogue who's never had anyone he could trust his whole life? Yep. I'd have recommended Zamora read Dickens' Hard Times.
This is is another visually nice episode, with all the backgrounds looking like paintings and all the characters well animated. The action scenes weren't very well conceived but were good enough.
The Bad Batch is available on Disney+.
Twitter Sonnet #1672
The drinkers divvy up the street for blood.
To choke the city, velvet cinched the throat.
A row of teeth emerged from crimson mud.
Beneath the altar bleats a snoozing goat.
Ferengi fingers fix the liquor air.
Assembled houses shade the slapping hand.
Aggressive waters move the salmon's care.
His startled face is shoved in river sand.
Her flimsy arms were straw and golden dust.
Another morning marks the field for grain.
Between the sun and sky accrues a rust.
A man in charge divides the wet from sane.
With crimson straps the ankles carry on.
Her arm conveyed the nameless, careless fawn.
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