Oh boy, this one is just rough. Ventress is here. She's just here. Some people may not understand why that is bad but others know that she died in the novel "Dark Disciple", which took place during the clone wars, aka way before the setting of the bad batch. And do we get any sort of explanation as to how she's alive? Expect one cheap and lazy line about how she has lives left to live, nope. I do not care that she is a nightsister and they have the ability to resurrect the dead. It's ok to let characters die and stay dead guys, we don't have to retcon the death of any and every single fan favorite character, especially if you don't have a story to tell with them. Filoni could have at least shown her being revived by nightsister magic but that would also not make any sense since Vos and Kenobi buried her in the novel. I think Filoni just wants to try to copy the popularity of Darth Maul being brought back but the difference is Maul wasn't confirmed to be killed in TPM, just assumed to be. In Dark Disciple, Ventress definitely died.
Ventress shows up on Pabu to test Omega for M count by having her go through some tests to see if she's force sensitive. During these tests the bad batch realize who she is, think she's still their enemy, and try to fight her but get their butts kicked. Ventress tries to explain to them that she's not their enemy anymore but they won't listen. Omega comes back while they're fighting and of course she thinks Ventress has changed and she somehow makes the bad batch promise to let her do the tests with Ventress. Gotta love how Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair are basically her pets at this point, having to obey her every wish no matter how idiotic. And during the last test, Ventress accidentally summons a giant squid turtle monster with the force while she and Omega are out on the water, because of course the writing team wants to manufacture tension so we get ANOTHER monster of the week. At the end of the episode, Ventress tells Omega she's not high in M count but after Omega goes off with Wrecker, Crosshair says that she's lying. Apparently Omega DOES have the potential (for the force I guess?) and that would mean that she would have to be taken away from the bad batch to be trained but Ventress posses this as a hypothetical so who even knows.
All and all, yet another episode where nothing happens. There is no story for the bad batch apart from "OmG wE gOt To FiGuRe OuT wHy ThE eMpIrE wAnTs OmEga", which has absolutely no urgency since why does it even matter? I thought Hemlock wanted her found as soon as possible but it doesn't even feel like they're hunting the bad batch down for her. Ventress even tells them that they're not as safe on Pabu as they think so where tf is Hemlock and his troopers? Are they just sitting around waiting for some intel to come in about where Omega could be? And on the topic of that, if Omega does have force potential, why? Simply why? She's an unaltered clone from the Jango Fett genotype so does that imply that Jango, and following that logic, Boba too, are force sensitive? Or is Omega just special because of course she is? But hey, at least Ventress quips that "your blood doesn't make you a jedi. You'd have to be trained for that" so get bent Rey and sequel fans.
This show is a mess and needs to be put to sleep, permanently.
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