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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

We got the third to last episode of the Bad Batch last night, and it was really a slow build bridge episode the finale.

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The episode breaks into two story line, Omega is returned to Mt Tantiss and she tries to dig for more information on why she's so special to Hemlok, and its actually a civil conversation. What she's learned in a vacuum doesn't mean a lot. All she knows is that her blood and the children in the vaults blood when combined reducing the degradation of M-Counts in clones. The question remains of whom they're trying to clone, though I don't think they're trying to make super troopers, this is a Palpatine project alone.

But it raises the question of how force sensitive Omega is, and it might be too late in the series to explore that, and why aren't all Clones high M-Count donors? At the end Omega gets locked in the vault with the other Children, so that leads to the possible question in the end of who Omega is willing to sacrifice to save Children, and does this lead to a lot of Clone Deaths including the Bad Batch? We know that Filoni likes his big endings, just look at the Clone Wars.

The Batch meanwhile are desperate to find the coordinates to the facility, and they manage to find former Admiral Rampart and they want to break him out of the prison and shake the information out of them.

This leads to a very good action sequence where we finally get to see Juggernauts in action, and they're awesome. They rescue Rampart and he says he doesn't have the coordinates but can get them.

Overall this was a slow burn, I expect next week is about getting the coordinates and doing an avenger team assemble moment, and the last episode feels like its bringing things to a tragic end.

Which clones survive, do we see the end of Cody and other familiar Clones? We know the fate of Rex, Wolfe and Gregor. And Rex in Rebels initially wants nothing to do with fighting the Empire, are we going to see the source of that trauma.

Is Trooper X Tech? It would be a gut punch and very Filoni.

Do we get Vader in the last episode, they seem to be hinting at it in teasers. And if we get Vader do we get Ventress?

Is there the choice of saving the clones or saving the children? It seems likely.

Overall it was a solid build up episode.

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I'm pretty certain Trooper X is (was?) Tech. And yeah I think within the larger lore what we're seeing in the early days of Palps 'live forever plan' which ties in with his eventual return and the vat of snokes we see in TROS and likely in that Mando episode.