Summary: <p>“The Solitary Clone” and “Faster” (The Bad Batch S2, Ep. 3–4) are such beautiful love letters to the prequel era that we forgot we weren’t watching The Clone Wars for a second. </p> <p>In our recap, we talk about the many blasts from the past we get in these episodes: podracing (!!!!), callbacks to the Funding the War Arc with Mina Bonteri, hanging out with Commander Cody, more emotional trauma in front of the clone trooper memorial on Coruscant, and allllll the Separatist battle tech. On the less fun side, we also get a callback to the unfortunate prequel-era habit of killing off Star Wars’ coolest and most powerful women (more on that during Bae Watch).</p> <p>To skip to your favorite segments, check out the timestamps below.</p> <p>And join us next week to recap “Entombed” and “Tribe” (Bad Batch Season 2, Episodes 4–5). </p> <p>00:00:00 Plot Overview</p> <p>00:13:53 “The Solitary Clone” Discussion</p> <p>00:22:17 Calling Back to “Heroes on Both Sides”</p> <p>00:26:25 How Strong Is The Empire Anyway?</p> <p>00:31:07 The Bad Batch As a Samurai Story </p> <p>00:38:35 “Faster” Discussion</p> <p>00:50:36 Bae Watch</p> <p>01:00:54 End Credits</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/growingupskywalker/message
