They should have taken the droids with them
Omega is getting old in a hurry. I thought that she'd be some sort of idiot savant, but so far she's just been an idiot.
Listen, I know that Omega's inclusion is literally just a device to bring adventure and character development but I really hope we don't get a ton of these episodes of action and adventure sequences just because she's getting herself into mindless trouble. Not when I was fine with just Bad Batch activities alone.
loved this episode with Fennec Shand
We know that Omega is very important but I don't think it was on of the Kaminoans who hired Fennec. That would be too obvious, wouldn't it? It's someone we haven't seen yet.
So, there's a bounty on Omega... would be nice to know what's so special about her, since her being a child and always doing the exact opposite to what she's supposed to do gets old pretty quickly.
Love the end credits theme, though.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2021-05-23T02:44:05Z
[7.4/10] “Cornered” is a well-built episode of The Bad Batch. Our heroes’ objectives are clear: find some food, fix the ship, and get some money. And their obstacles are just as clear, mostly in the form of Ming-Na Wen’s Fennec Shand(!) hunting Omega down and a local mechanic who’s less than scrupulous. The way those missions conflict and intersect works nicely, and there’s some quality action to go with it.
I particularly liked the speeder chase through downtown Pentura between Hunter, Omega, and Shand. Speeder chases are, frankly, a dime a dozen in Star Wars, but there was a clarity to this one that’s often missing in others. Who was chasing whom, complications like a blaster stuck in a crevice or a tricky move from Omega, and the arrival of the cops to make the situation even hairier added some real beats to the pursuit that made it more than just another dose of fireworks.
Aside from the fisticuffs, it’s nice to see the Bad Batch having to scrape by without supplies from the Republic. This is a new world and a new mode for them, and I like that it doesn’t go 100% smoothly. The comic stylings of Wrecker and Tech being paired up together is well-documented at this point, and I enjoy the two of them working together to scramble their ship’s code.
But the peak of humor in this one is Echo having to pretend to be a droid to get his team the cash they need to keep rolling. His disgruntlement over what he’s “worth” as a droid, and the uptightness of the C-3 unit grousing about his deception and usurpation are funny moments. The way he uses his cadre of droid buddies to fix the scrambler issue is a nice way to bring everything together.
Likewise, the episode nicely sets up Hunter’s quest for food and cash, and the way that Omega is just excited to be seeing other worlds after being stuck on Kamino her whole life. Omega’s provincialism creates interesting problems for Hunter when she gets easily separated from him and then taken in by a smiling face with an ulterior motive in the form of Shand. There’s some good conflict there. Hunter wants to care for Omega, and she already sees him as a surrogate space dad, but she’s not wise to the ways of the world yet, and that produces issues.
On the whole, this plays like a pretty standard adventure of the week, but a well-constructed one, that brings back a cool character and actress from the Star Wars universe and sets up its obstacles, both practical and emotional, quite nicely.