You thought you were watching a kid’s show, a cartoon, but prepare yourself to witness a half dozen murders this week. The Emperor has tasked Tarkin with squashing resistance, and the Moff will do so with extreme prejudice and without remorse. Here is a time and place where hope feels impossible, and Princess Leia’s rebellion is merely a flicker in fandom’s eye. The new Disney+ series plunges the franchise into its darkest depths. A value that will cost the Empire a whole helluva lot less than Jango Fett’s children. These replacements have sworn allegiance and are eager to prove their value to Palpatine. While not named so in the episode, we meet four non-clone soldiers handpicked from across the galaxy. Star Wars: The Bad BatchEpisode 3, entitled “Replacements,” appears to introduce these Imperial beasts. These are the guys the Empire sends in when they want to salt the earth and leave no stories of their misdeeds behind. Death Troopers are known for their stealth and carnage. They often serve as bodyguards to high-ranking Imperial officers like Grand Moff Tarkin and Ben Mendelsohn’s sniveling Orson Krennic. They’re those nasty-looking Stormtroopers dressed head-to-toe in black, whose voices are garbled by a modulator. Death Troopers made their first appearance in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. So, the two business partners secretly scramble to bilk the other of their goods.įrom their backroom dealings, an elite squad is formed. If manufacturing is over, then their economy will collapse. They’ve halted clone production, and that makes the Kaminoans nervous. The Empire, desperate to cut costs while also tightening its grip on the galaxy, struggles to find new ways to use old soldiers. In this entry, we’re charging into Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode 3 (“Replacements”) and examing the darkest era in the franchise’s history. Welcome to The Bad Batch Explained, our new weekly column dedicated to those rough and tumble Clone Wars leftovers and their march through a bold, new galaxy far, far away.
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