IR TV Review: STAR WARS - THE BAD BATCH - EPISODE 9 (“The Crossing”) [Lucasfilm/Disney+-S2]
After the existential dread in a way that befell the clone ideology in the previous episodes, Episode 8 of "The Bad Batch" entitled "The Crossing" is more back to the context of keeping to the work while the impact peripherally of what has happened continues to sink in, especially for Omega. She has not been hardened by the elements of war and her origins create an interesting perspective, no matter what her destiny turns out to be. This episode follows the crew as they head to a planet to do a quick job on an acquisition for Cid inside a mine. Things don't quite go their way per se but again it filters back to problem solving. What is interesting her is the repercussions of what is essentially a family dynamic.
Omega misses Echo who left in the previous episode to join Rex in his work. And now she feels incomplete and she is also just a kid without the conditioning the Caminoans provided for most clones. Tech actually with his logic (not unlike another sci-fi maven) has to find a way to relate without alienating their young ward. The ideal is how to keep going when a piece of you is missing. The irony is that certain things can be fixed. For someone like Obi-Wan, the inability to fix not necessarily a wrong but a mistake that couldn't really have been avoided can never be redeemed. With The Bad Batch at least they have each other even if sometimes their different strengths and weakness can impede their judgment. As long as they come together, the fight is still alive. B
