![]() ![]() Trench tries to interrupt but Anakin saves the day and kills the spider-like Separatist. Windu makes his way to the bomb and Echo helps him disarm it. While Jedi Mace Windu and Obi-Wan are fighting off dozens of battle droids, Echo reroutes all of Trench’s forces to their location and neutralize them with an EMP.Īll signs point towards victory until Echo picks up another order from Trench to detonate a massive bomb at the facility that would destroy a large chunk of the planet. The crew makes their way to a mainframe where Echo plugs in and begins monitoring Trench’s moves. The Bad Batch escorts Echo, Anakin and Rex onto Trench’s dreadnaught cruiser while the Republic forces launch an offensive on Trench’s droid factory on the planet Anaxes. Echo offers a new strategy: with his knowledge of the Separatist network, Echo can feed the Republic forces information on all of Trench’s moves before he makes them. The final episode in the arc begins with the Jedi and Clones devising a plan to take down Admiral Trench. After the battle is over, Echo thanks Rex for coming to get him. With the help of local flying lizard creatures called Keeradaks, the group escapes Tambor’s facility, which the locals decide to help take down. Tech is able to safely unhook Echo from the Separatist machines and the team makes a hasty retreat into an exhaust vent. ![]() When he comes to, Echo is disoriented and still thinks he’s on the Citadel, but he is relieved to see Rex has come back for him. Tech opens it up to find Echo with a series of wires plugged into his head and mechanical contraptions built into his now grotesque body. After killing more droids, Tech and Rex move into a large room with a stasis chamber. Rex accuses Wat of holding Echo prisoner, but Tambor says it does not matter because they will all die soon. They make their way into the facility and fight their way through dozens of flying battle droids until Rex meets Wat Tambor. Anakin breaks up the fight and tells Rex to prepare to face the reality that Echo is dead. Rex gets agitated and starts punching Crosshair after he says that he would have left Echo to die at the Citadel. When the signal goes cold, the group starts to theorize this is a trap and that Echo is not alive after all. The crew follows Echo’s signal to a planet called Skako Minor, where they are pointed in the direction of Wat Tambor’s facility. They share a tender moment before Obi-Wan approaches Rex wanting to speak to Anakin, prompting a hilarious exchange where it is revealed that Obi-Wan already knows about Padme and Anakin’s relationship. Anakin vents his frustrations while Padme reminds him to trust Rex and be there for him. Rex and the Bad Batch worked with Echo and are eager to trace his signal, but they are halted by Anakin Skywalker, who insists that Rex come with him to guard the door to a barracks while he contacts Padme. Additionally, the group finds a signal from the Arc trooper Echo, a clone who was thought to have died on the Citadel during the rescue of the Jedi Even Piell. In their intro arc, Captain Rex and Commander Cody - a pair of higher-ranking clones who manage the Bad Batch - theorize that the Separatists are learning to adapt to the Republic’s military strategies and propose a plan to have the Bad Batch infiltrate a cyber security center to steal the Separatist algorithm held by Admiral Trench. The Bad Batch are a group of clone soldiers - Wrecker, Hunter, Crosshair and Tech - with an independent streak. Prior to getting their own show on Disney+, Clone force 99, aka the Bad Batch, debuted in the final season of The Clone Wars in a four-episode arc. Overall, a decent movie while the weakest of the Star Wars franchise.Photo: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episode 704 “Unfinished Business”. Plus John Williams' music was outstanding. Then again, Lee is an exceptional actor who can act anything you throw at him. There is no doubt though that the acting honours go to Christopher Lee as the villainous Count Dooku. Frank Oz is excellent as always as Yoda, and Ewen MacGregor is more at home here than he was in Phantom Menace. Natalie Portman is quite captivating as Queen Padma, and displays a lot of emotional depth. The battle sequences are well choreographed, the pace is somewhat brisker than in Phantom Menace and the performances with the exception of Christensen are very good. Still despite the major flaws, it is a marvel to look at with stunning sets and impeccable CGI. I will admit the dialogue is weak and gets nowhere at times, the plot isn't as well thought out and felt convoluted at best, Haydn Christensen does give a truly abysmal performance as Anakin and although the presence of Jar Jar Binks was toned down here his presence anywhere seemed jarring. I do agree that this is the weakest of the six Star Wars movies, but it wasn't by all means a terrible movie. ![]()
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