This week’s episode takes place shortly after the events of the last one, with the Batch having to wait it out a few days and survive while Cid sends them help. But as we’ve already seen on Andor and in this episode, looking the other way and helping when it’s convenient is not enough in the time of the Empire, and a reckoning is coming sooner rather than later. The Batch only helps when it’s convenient, but they are mostly just content with looking the other way.

Whenever they’ve done something that’s unequivocally good for others - saving people from danger, rescuing Gungi and returning him to his people, rescuing Hera Syndulla’s parents - they’ve only done so at the behest of Omega. And, yes, they did the occasional favor for Captain Rex. Then, once the immediate danger was out, they started going on missions in order to earn money to stay alive, working for Cid doing small jobs that were honestly kind of beneath an elite squad of clones, heroes of the war. At first, they had to escape from the Empire and do whatever it took to not be captured. Throughout both seasons of the show, Hunter and the others have been driven mostly by pure survival instinct. It’s not goodwill, it’s because they (sometimes) listen to Omega. They really only do decent things when they’re forced to. The protagonists on The Bad Batch are hardly characters who could be considered heroes.

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