In the premiere, Tipoca City already felt ominous as the post-Order 66 clones marched around like robots, and yet somehow the city that the Bad Batch returns to feels even more unsettling. Without spoiling anything yet (the episode title already reveals that our heroes will be returning to Kamino), the return to Kamino feels very grim. This is a very dark episode, dealing with a lot of the larger narratives at work in the early days of the Empire. Naturally, this installment is geared around that rescue mission but the show still managed to throw in some twists and turns and intriguing character beats as some of the season’s long running plotlines were wrapped up. We knew what the stakes were going into this first part of the finale – Hunter was captured by the Empire and in need of rescue. Return to Kamino was a fantastic episode of The Bad Batch, setting up an exciting final episode of the season with appropriate amounts of tension and drama.
