Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Episode Six review

As the old saying goes, “Practice makes perfect.”

In Episode Six, “Decommissioned,” the Bad Batch teach Omega how to fire her now blaster bow (which is designed like a bow and arrow), which she acquired in the last episode.

This training is to help Omega grow in her skills. Anyone who pursues something in life has to practice and grow, becoming more consistent and develop perseverance.

And unlike Tony Stark in “Iron Man (2007),” not everyone can “run before you can walk.”

After all, Tom Brady and Michael Jordan didn’t become the “greatest of all time” on Day One. They had to spend years training and practicing.

Even Luke Skywalker in the Original Star Wars Trilogy needed weeks (or months) of training with Yoda before he could become a Jedi Knight.

Besides, the military doesn’t throw raw and untrained men and women into combat. They require training and skill, or else they would become easy casualties.

The Bad Batch want Omega to have the skills and strength to defend herself and hold her own in a fight.

As scene in her target practicing, Omega needs all the experience she can get. She also needs to learn how to focus and not let distractions get in her way.

That combat training and experience are necessary given the fact that the five of them are still wanted by the Empire and a bounty hunter.

Looking for more money, the Bad Batch take another job from Sid to capture a Separatist Tactical Droid.

Tactical Droids were a real pain for the Republic’s Clone and Jedi forces during the Clone Wars, as shown in the “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” TV show. Their advanced AI systems and adaptation made it hard for the Republic forces to defeat the Separatists in several battles.

That tactical knowledge on how to fight Clones makes these Tactical Droids very valuable since the Empire is still using Clones.

The Bad Batch searches for the Tactical Droid on Corellia, an industrial planet where the Separatist Droids are being melted down and scrapped.

While on the job, the Bad Batch encounters Rafa and Trace Martez, sisters and smugglers who are also after the Tactical Droid.

During the scuffle, all of them must fight off police droids and escape from the security lockdown.

It’s a nice metaphor for Americans to get themselves out of the Covid “lockdowns.”

During the fighting, Wrecker suffers a concussion and gets knocked out. It is clear that his inhibitor chip was affected by his head being hit, and he starts uttering the words used by Crosshair due to his inhibitor chip malfunctioning.

The Clones and smugglers end up working together to escape. They use the Tactical Droid’s head to activate the intact Separatist Droids against the factory’s security droids. However, the Tactical Droid’s head is destroyed, leaving both groups with nothing to show for their efforts.

After escaping from the factory, Rafa and Trace reveal that they were hired to bring the Tactical Droid to someone who wanted to use it to fight the Empire.

Hunter gives them the information that Tech downloaded from the Tactical Droid’s head. He does it to show Rafa and Trace that he and the Bad Batch are different.