Topic: The Unoffical TV Show Mega Thread

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I agree, I hope that it stays this way too, I love these kinds of episodes!

@Colonel_Mustache The writers ability to get your hopes up while knowing something bad is going to happen is incredible. This is a prequel yet you somehow still think the Heros will win and it gets yanked at the last moment as per usual when the empire is involved

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Yep it's pretty amazing how they're able to do that considering it's a prequel!

@Colonel_Mustache it’s good writing and characters you want to root for. Unfortunately they are then placed in one awful situation after another. I really want to see this side of palpatiene more because he effortlessly destroyed hope and turned it into a a predestined tragedy

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Seriously! Like even though it messed the poor clones up, I kinda dig how Palpatine finessed the whole situation... I know he's always been portrayed as a schemer but I also want to see more of that...

@Colonel_Mustache that is peak palpatien being able to take victory and turn it into defeat. I would not be surprised if rampart lands on his feet commanding some imperial black site. It just makes his death many years later more powerful someone finally rejecting his manipulation and killing him.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Yeah that is peak Palpatine... Also I think you have a more, eh... optimistic view of what happened to Rampart then I did... Yeah, and for it to have been someone close to him than somebody else defeating him...
Like George Lucas said: "It's like poetry, it rhymes"

@Colonel_Mustache I hope he ends up punished but this is the empire we are talking about. They have already faked crosshairs and Anakins death whats another officer that should be deceased? That being said if this is the last time we see rampart he got what he deserved

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika You know, I never thought of it that way, that Anakin "died" on Mustafar, and Vader was born there...

@Colonel_Mustache both figuratively and the empire literally kept his death a secret. Don’t be suprised if rampart shows up a few years later eith a new squad he earned for unwavering loyalty to his emperor

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Huh I didn't know about that... You learn something new every day! Yeah I guess Rampart WAS pretty loyal, maybe that was enough for him...

@Colonel_Mustache plus with the thread of the empire trying to restart cloning I wouldn’t be suprised if that’s where he pops up next. Just another stunt by the empire to look just just while slowly transitioning from a senate to dictatorship

God the new Bad batch episode was great the show is clearly hitting its stride. It deals wirh tensions garnered from the previous episode in a satisfying way that fits these characters. It also basically spells out Tech is autistic which was done really well in addition to him kind of being the MVP all season long. Overall it was a great episode and I would recommend giving the show another try for those who may have given up on it

@Eagly They handled that better than Ninjago they just made Zane a robot instead... Though Season 5 is amazing and if he wasn't a robot that amazing Season wouldn't be real and I'd be sad.

@Kermit1 to be fair they forshadowed zane was a robot and they never treated him as anything other than human after the episode

Tech is still better though he is the star of season 2. He has basically been the MVP all season long

@Eagly Kinda like Zane in Season 3. Oh, btw I got the Season number mixed up, it's Season 4 not 5.

@Kermit1 season 3 is probably the last universally great season after that tge shows still good but the writing starts to decline

@Eagly the second reboot after the Movie was a real decline imo

@Kermit1 which is disappointing because I’d argue Ninjago is probably the best looking cgi animated show on cable right now. In fact it’s only real competition is streaming exclusive bad batch

@Eagly and it's original (kinda). One of the new Seasons had crystals as a gimmick and that showed they can flex the style a bit.