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For the first two/thirds of Season Two of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, I was convinced that this show was actually two completely different shows. One show was a charming but relatively unambitious adventure-of-the-week pitched at thirteen-year-olds in which the Bad Batch + plucky teen clone Omega hunt for treasure in various locations across the galaxy, usually failing to get it but discovering along the way that the real treasure is friends. Then every four or five episodes the 'Omega hunts for treasure' show would inexplicably get replaced with an episode from the other show, a grim thriller about the fate of the clones post-Order 66 as the Empire begins the process of discarding them, and the various ways in which a military-industrial complex grinds its own gears into dust.

This was a wild experience, to me! I talked a great deal about how inexplicable it was! It's with some embarrassment, now that the end has come together and the long game of the season has been revealed, that I have to admit that I actually think that overall Season Two of the Bad Batch is actually ... well-structured .... and quite good .... or at least very effective at setting off my clone feelings ...

( more thoughts, some spoilers )