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episode of Darth Amine's Rule of

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Puzzle, aka Anthony Mays. This

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Star Wars. they come out reviewing

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the final season of the

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bad bats 12 and 13 this week the

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juggernaut bitch

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and into the breach. Same O2. I

2:12

actually didn't think of that but yeah

2:14

classic love a juggernaut bitch. We are

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hurtling towards endgame

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status ladies and gentlemen only

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two episodes left after this one after these

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two that we're going to review here and

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the story is definitely ratcheting up. A little

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bit later we'll talk about a new Star

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Wars video game Star Wars Outlaws. It's coming

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up. Looks pretty cool. Start

2:35

with episode 12 juggernaut dark and

2:38

ominous tones mazes. Omega's

2:41

back on Tantus and Hemlock telling her that

2:43

hey turning yourself in that was the wise

2:46

decision that was the right thing to do

2:48

kid. You saved a lot of time and

2:50

energy here. She sees Dr.

2:52

Carr asks her not to do this

2:54

as far as taking her blood sample

2:56

and Emery says you're safe.

2:59

Omega says am I? That's a great question. Is

3:01

she? Isn't she? Welcome to

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Cinephobe. Hunter meanwhile is

3:05

having some recaps position with crosshair and wrecker and

3:07

everyone's like we don't know how to get to

3:09

Tantus how are we going to get there. I

3:11

can't believe we missed the homing beacon tracking beacon

3:13

whatever and crosshair veils either is another way I

3:15

might know another way and everyone's like dude you've

3:17

got to help that close to your vest. I've

3:19

been holding out on that crosshair. And he admits

3:21

like yeah I didn't say shit because I didn't

3:23

want to go back to Tantus. I don't like

3:26

it there. I'm a handshaken by the way it's

3:28

a good point. Oh wait we got to save

3:30

all the other clones across here is like I

3:32

don't know those. I got to go

3:34

back. I'm not going back. But now that she's there

3:36

he's like I know another way and it's

3:39

Admiral Rampart from the beginning of the

3:41

series. Oh yes. Remember Admiral Rampart got

3:43

to bring him back. We definitely need

3:45

him. He might have the coordinates and

3:48

he's not exactly trustworthy. So we don't

3:50

know if he's a viable source of

3:52

information to recap for the people who

3:55

don't remember did not watch. Admiral Rampart

3:57

was the admiral in charge of the.

4:00

imperial fleet that basically destroyed

4:02

Topoka City, which is where

4:04

the Kamino cloning facilities is,

4:06

not only the hometown of

4:08

all the clones, but the

4:10

place where the people that made them are from. And

4:13

so they in essence destroyed that thing

4:15

under a ramparts orders. Obviously

4:18

it was an imperial thing, they didn't want clones

4:20

anymore, they wanted to destroy the clones, but they

4:22

kept it a secret. In season

4:24

two when it's revealed, the

4:26

Empire destroyed Topoka City and

4:28

destroyed the cloning facilities and

4:31

all the people who were on there, including

4:33

imperial personnel and Kaminoans, it

4:36

was a big uproar in the Senate and

4:38

so what the Emperor very shrewdly did is

4:40

he, what's the term mays

4:43

from curvy enthusiasm? He sloughed the

4:45

blame, he sloughed the blame, he

4:47

sloughed the blame onto Rampart and

4:49

said, acted on his own volition,

4:51

the court marshaled his ass

4:53

and sent his ass to prison. This is

4:56

the Admiral Rampart the guys are talking about.

4:58

That's great, I mean how are we gonna

5:00

get to Admiral Rampart? They don't have a

5:02

ship, the Marauder was destroyed, except

5:05

aha, he shows

5:08

up from a secret elevator underneath

5:10

and they're like how'd you get

5:12

here? A trap door! She

5:16

docked a ship in the hidden cavern that

5:18

everybody uses, that everybody knows

5:20

about. What is happening? At some point we have

5:22

to accept that this is not a hidden cavern.

5:25

It's not hidden and there's got to be a

5:27

traffic jam trying to get to the secret parking

5:29

spot at some point, too many people know about

5:31

it. They're driving around the lot, I

5:33

see a spotlight, nope, taken, handicap, that's

5:36

where I echo it for. Tech

5:39

told V all about crosshairs

5:41

sparkly personality and so they're

5:43

headed to an imperial labor

5:45

camp on Erebus and

5:48

we are doing the prison break

5:50

from a labor camp just like in

5:52

Rogue One I mean. Just like in

5:54

Rogue One and just like in Mandalorian

5:56

season two and just like in

5:58

Andor. this a

6:01

million times but Star Wars does not get

6:03

tired of it. I love Star Wars politics.

6:05

I mixed bag on Star Wars prison break.

6:08

Obviously the Andor one was

6:10

the best one. Yes, because it was a

6:12

different kind of prison, but this is almost

6:16

exactly the same kind

6:18

as Rogue One. Pop the truck

6:20

open, get them out. Yep. And

6:22

also these planets tend to look

6:24

very dirty and muddy and

6:27

kind of like not a lot of vegetation,

6:29

et cetera, et cetera. Rampart

6:31

is a prisoner there and he has a

6:34

beard and long hair to show the time

6:36

has passed. I also didn't recognize him with

6:38

the beard. Really? It's like when a player

6:40

gets traded from the Yankees, like Nick Swisher

6:42

and all of a sudden he's got a

6:44

big beard and it's a completely different guy.

6:46

It can change a man. I also like

6:49

that. Rampart is in prison alongside

6:51

like people that he would never ever,

6:54

ever associate with like ugnaughts and Rodians

6:57

and shit like that. This is his hell.

6:59

Yup. But yeah, remember the empire looks down

7:01

on nonhumanoids, right? This is like taking a

7:03

grand wizard from the Ku Klux Klan and

7:06

putting them in jail with a bunch of

7:08

black people. Yeah. It's not a cushy white

7:10

collar prison where you have your

7:12

own cell and you get to drink

7:15

sparkling wine, which is funny because they

7:17

kind of committed to the bit too

7:19

much, right? Isn't this classic emperor though?

7:21

He doesn't take care of his officers.

7:23

My Lord, we've got the plan. We're going to

7:25

send it all on to Admiral Rampart. He's going to

7:28

take the blame and we'll put them over a club

7:30

fed and empress now that

7:32

he's like, you know, he's funny. What

7:34

do you mean? Why didn't we, we said it

7:37

to real power me in the ass prison. He

7:43

has a hookup that can get them in. They

7:45

put together a plan and

7:47

the cells approach to the planet is

7:50

basically shutting down all the engines and

7:52

free falling. Tom Petty. So it's pretty

7:54

cool. The unload. She dips as

7:57

they're approaching. You got like storm

7:59

troopers walking. doing their sentry work and

8:01

something that's tickled me since the very first

8:03

time I saw New Hope. The

8:05

hallmark of Stormtroopers is these are

8:07

regular ass dudes and

8:10

they're always bored. So bored. Quite as

8:12

usual. Hopefully the next assignment we'll see some

8:14

action. They just want to shoot shit

8:16

which is one of my favorite scenes from the Mandalorian

8:18

Season 1 which is Sudeikis and

8:21

Adam Pally and they're practicing what they

8:23

do if they were actually in a

8:26

gunfight. Adam Part and the Ugnaught

8:28

are arguing and then we

8:30

get them in the prison transport that

8:32

is reminiscent from Rogue One. The Bad

8:34

Batch locate him. They need

8:37

to intercept him en route from the

8:39

mine to the prison. They're

8:41

going to sneak onto the turbo tank from below.

8:44

They use magnet grappling hooks to

8:46

climb up on the roof and

8:48

they easily infiltrate the bridge. We've

8:50

got a door that's magnetically sealed crosshair

8:52

ass wrecker if you remember plan Yep.

8:57

Plan 55. Get up. It

8:59

is get up by basically shooting

9:02

one blaster bolt letting the

9:04

magnetic seal kill everybody in there because

9:06

again crosshair is so good

9:08

at aiming. He can aim ricochets

9:10

off of ricochets off of ricochets

9:12

and then whatever's left wrecker

9:15

takes out with his like bazooka guns or

9:17

whatever. They buy Paul Rampart and get

9:19

ready to extract him. He says if

9:21

you're not here to execute me and you're not letting me

9:23

go then you must need something and he realizes

9:26

he has bargaining power,

9:28

bargaining position. Leverage! And

9:31

he says I'll talk once you get me off this

9:33

planet. Crosshair asks about Tantus

9:35

and he says ahhhhh. Tantus.

9:38

Poisonous. Snake. On

9:42

a plane. Mateo!

9:48

The imps realize that transport one has

9:50

been compromised and so they send transport two

9:52

after it. We get a cool chicken

9:55

scene here, maze. Yep. Where

9:57

they're two hurtling at each other. They're shooting. Gun

10:00

ships are trying to take them out. This is

10:02

actually a really really well done Action

10:04

scene, you know, usually I'm like, let's

10:07

just get through it. Whatever. Okay, Star Wars

10:09

fight or whatever But like this

10:11

was actually pretty cool. Yeah, they got

10:13

the ballistic missiles I always love the

10:15

shot of ballistic missiles all spreading out

10:18

crazy firefight Hunter tells record to take

10:20

out the wheels that works they

10:23

vault off the other tank catch some air

10:25

Rampart tries to grab a

10:28

blaster after the tank lands and crosshair shoots

10:30

it out of his hands and stuns them

10:32

Coopers are landing on it. They're trying to

10:34

shake them. It's getting bad. But

10:36

here comes fee to save the day Last

10:39

them off. This is another Star Wars staple,

10:41

right? I mean, this is Millennium Falcon showing

10:43

up on the trench run We're

10:47

about to go off the skinny road on

10:49

the side of the cliff and at the

10:51

last second There's a ship to the

10:54

rescue that we thought was gone And

10:56

then there was one more thing where it's like record is

10:58

the last guy who's gotta go he throws Yep,

11:01

ramparts lifeless body onto the onto the ship

11:03

and then he's got to jump up there and

11:05

he makes the jump and I'm like It's

11:08

just afraid of heights. Didn't they have like played at

11:10

least played that up a bit cuz

11:12

he didn't play it up I thought oh

11:14

for sure he's gonna die here. That's what

11:16

it felt like It's one of those things

11:18

that it's such a trope that you always

11:21

expect them to make it the last second

11:23

except when tech died Exactly. And

11:25

so I thought you know how Rogue One We

11:28

went into Rogue One and I didn't know

11:30

anything I literally walked into the red carpet

11:32

premiere and I said they're all gonna die.

11:34

They have to die there's no

11:36

way you can have these people running

11:38

around living happily ever after and Sure

11:41

enough they died but like it's the way they

11:43

do it one by one. It wasn't

11:46

until like Chirrut dies

11:48

where I'm like, oh They're

11:51

killing them all they're cleaning them all off now

11:53

and the last two are gonna be and

11:56

or and jinn erso So because they didn't

11:58

play up the whole year He's afraid of heights

12:00

thing. I was like, Oh, this is how they do it. They

12:03

catch us off guard, but nope. Spoiler alert.

12:05

Everybody's still live after episode 13 as well.

12:07

They finally wake this dude

12:09

up. He's like, no one knows the coordinates of

12:11

Tantus. I know my no work around. And

12:13

it's like, okay, we're going to do this shit again. No

12:15

one actually knows that. I know a guy who knows a

12:17

guy. It's the same thing that Fennec did.

12:20

Yep. It's how it goes.

12:22

You string people along. Tantus is basically the

12:24

club. Do we know anyone at

12:26

the door? Like not exactly, but I know someone who

12:28

works in the back cross air

12:30

says, if you don't tell us, we'll

12:33

send you back to prison, which strong

12:35

leverage in return on him. Now, now

12:37

no need for threats. After all we're

12:40

in this together back on Tantus. Omega's

12:42

blood is processed to glows, gold or

12:44

yellow again. Favorable M count replication. Omega

12:48

asked what that means. Hemlock's going to show

12:50

her an individual's M count cannot be directly

12:52

replicated. Each experiment, the level is degraded. Now

12:54

he's taking her to the vault. Nothing

12:57

worked until they combined her sample with an

12:59

M count specimen. You're a vital piece to

13:01

our work here, Amiga. And then he puts her

13:03

in the vault with the rest of the puzzle. AKA

13:06

the four sensitive children. This is your new

13:08

home. By the way, this is all walk

13:10

and talk position. That term comes through criticism.

13:13

Cinephobe check it out. Wherever you get podcasts.

13:15

We have many terms like

13:17

that to describe these tropes

13:19

when characters are walking down the hallway and

13:21

just expositioning. The walk is just so that

13:24

the exposition does not occur for them sitting

13:26

and talking to each other. So it's walk

13:28

and talk position and

13:30

episode roll credits. Go to episode

13:32

13 into the breach. When

13:42

the week ends for me and I know that there's

13:44

no more work to be done, I have to go

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patrol ounces. Start

14:48

off with Tantus, dark and ominous tones, Amiga's

14:50

in her cell. I will admit that I

14:52

do think the design of Tantus is very

14:55

cool and I am enjoying all these shots

14:57

of it at different, you know, in

14:59

the last episode it was raining. In this

15:01

episode we got birds chirping and it's a

15:04

little bit of sunshine this time, but yes,

15:06

dark and ominous tone. She comes out to

15:08

the common area. She's the scientist, she sees

15:10

droids, they're observing from a deck above over

15:13

the common area. She introduces herself to

15:15

the fourth sensitive child, Eva. She sees

15:18

the little toy. She says, oh, where'd

15:20

you get that from? Which is exactly

15:23

what I'm talking about. Well, Avatar show listeners will know

15:25

this reference. This is exactly how the president

15:27

of Mountain Dew talked to Tony as he's

15:29

holding the Mountain Dew ball that I

15:32

urged him to take from the Mountain Dew party because

15:34

when are we ever going to see any of these

15:36

people again? We ended up seeing the president of Mountain

15:38

Dew. Tony didn't realize it was him.

15:40

The president of Mountain Dew says, oh, that's a

15:42

cool basketball. Where'd you get that from? And Tony

15:44

says this thing and he received to spit it

15:46

on his finger like a f***ing globe trotter. It

15:49

is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Eva

15:52

says Dr. Carr gave it to me. She's

15:54

the only nice one. We

15:57

also got Jax, the green boy, Sammy,

15:59

the blue girl. and the cat-like

16:01

white baby creature, Baron? Yep, little intro's

16:03

position. They don't like when the kids

16:05

talk to each other and Sammy tells

16:07

Amiga she'll get used to it. Amiga

16:10

starts chasing this joint hard, asking

16:12

are they always watching? Yes, the

16:14

droids too. She's

16:17

starting to figure this whole shit out. Meanwhile,

16:19

Rampart is bitching. He's bitching about

16:21

this, he's bitching about that, Hunter tells him you get

16:23

your freedom when they find Tantus.

16:26

Marco shows up in the shuttle that he stole

16:28

and I won't lie, I didn't look this up,

16:30

but Maze, do you remember in

16:33

Rebels when Ahsoka first

16:35

reunites with Rex and

16:37

they're in like this big walking jalopy?

16:40

It looked a lot like this shuttle, which

16:42

is a row class shuttle, but

16:44

with legs on it. So I don't know, I'm

16:47

interested to see if this shuttle

16:49

continues or if I'm just mixing things up.

16:52

Yeah, I mean this definitely seems like a

16:54

burner that they're using just for this mission.

16:57

But that would be interesting if they hold onto

16:59

it. Could it just be that it's a similar

17:01

model? Similar model, could be. That was the first

17:03

thing I thought about, oh that looks like Rex's

17:05

thing. Rampart says they

17:07

gotta go to this space station that's hovering

17:10

above Coruscant, that's where they get the coordinates

17:12

from, but it's on a direct download to

17:14

the nav computer. So it's

17:16

not anything you can intercept or anything

17:18

like that, so you have to go to this thing. So

17:21

they come up with a plan that they're gonna have

17:23

Rampart impersonate an officer and then they'll

17:25

accompany him as a security detail. And I'm

17:27

looking at these freaks, you know, one

17:29

dude is seven feet tall. You got another dude doesn't have

17:32

a hand. You got like a skomp link for a hand.

17:34

And I'm like, this isn't going to work. And

17:37

I guess Rampart feels the same way. They hand

17:39

him the uniform and he looks at it and

17:41

he says, I can't wear this. It's a captain's

17:43

uniform and everybody just stares at

17:45

him deadpan. And he says, I'm vice

17:48

Admiral. Well you've been demoted. Boom.

17:51

Roasted his ass. I mean, TGT. Oh,

17:54

from echo. I hate clones.

17:56

I hate clones. That's

18:00

nice little Saturday morning cartoon clip there

18:02

at the end by rampart Mays was

18:05

this Cobra formula, even though he

18:07

didn't get an actual question back. He got

18:09

a blank stare back. Yeah. It's kind of

18:11

double Cobra formula. He says, I can't wear

18:14

this. The captain's uniform is waiting for them

18:16

to say, why can't you wear a captain's

18:18

uniform? He's baiting them. He's setting them up.

18:20

They refuse to participate. But then also I

18:23

was a vice Admiral while you've been demoted

18:25

of, I hate clones. That's also Cobra formula.

18:27

It's definitely altogether. You got

18:29

yourself a stew going. There's some

18:31

Cobra formula action happening here. Cut

18:34

to Tantis Omega and Dr. Carr

18:36

together. She's doing some sort of test.

18:38

Omega steals something. Did not see what

18:41

it was made when she still, she

18:43

put up her sleeve, a stylus for

18:45

the tablet. Essentially. Seems like something that

18:47

Dr. Carr would notice immediately.

18:49

Seems like it. I mean,

18:51

she's a little preoccupied. Also

18:53

we've got the droid coming

18:55

out of the wall to

18:58

do the centrifuge. The thing is

19:00

a little unnecessary. Seems like you could just take

19:02

the sample and bring it to the lab, but

19:04

no, we got to have in cell

19:07

pneumatic tube systems. I wonder why

19:09

we need that in cell. It

19:12

doesn't anybody. Not by choice.

19:14

So the other part of it is

19:16

I thought about is do you think

19:18

Imperial facilities have like a drawer full

19:21

of spare styluses because people keep losing

19:23

them for sure. This place is well

19:25

funded. Tantis says stylus budget for days.

19:27

We know it's well funded as evidenced

19:29

by the conversation between Tarkin and Hemlock

19:32

a few episodes back. All

19:34

right. Dr. Scaldor, who

19:37

by the way is hot. Let

19:39

me just say this right now. Wow.

19:41

Dr. Scaldor disagrees with Carr about her

19:43

methods about letting Omega mingle with the

19:45

other kids. I didn't really

19:47

pay attention. I was like, who is this?

19:49

Tell me more. Got to

19:52

have another lady scientist for

19:55

Emery to pull rank on cause she's the

19:57

chief scientist. Don't tell me how to live my

19:59

life. And I said, shut up, every tell me

20:01

more, Dr. Scalder. I might have a little bit of

20:04

a fever. I really warmed

20:06

up to Dr. Scalder here. You're scalding

20:08

hot for all their, huh? Omega starts

20:10

asking about procedures and protocols. So the

20:12

kids that she's escaped before, she's going

20:15

to do it again. And

20:17

guess what? You're coming with me. That's

20:19

making a plan with the toys. This

20:21

is so pointless. I mean, it's not

20:23

pointless. If you've seen escape plan with

20:26

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, which

20:28

does not qualify for Cinephobe, but

20:31

man, I cannot urge you enough. Mays, have

20:33

you watched escape plan? No. Are you happy?

20:35

It was on Tubi last time I watched

20:38

the best one. Marrakesh. It's

20:41

such a fun movie, dude. It's

20:44

so fun. You'll be angry that it

20:46

doesn't qualify because we would add a

20:48

ball with this one. But it's

20:50

very similar. Like she's doing the Stallone role where

20:52

she's sitting here and grabbing random things and showing

20:54

everybody how we're going to break out of prison.

20:57

Sure. All she does is make a circle with

20:59

these blocks. I mean, it's not complex layout. Oh,

21:01

you mean the circular room that we're in right

21:03

now? We're in a circle. We get it. We

21:06

had the overhead shot of how Tantus is a

21:08

circle and then there's a circle. It's not the

21:10

circle of the circle. We get it. But also

21:12

the kids kind of can look up and say,

21:14

Oh, you mean this room right here? Okay. Yes.

21:17

She says there's tubes that the droids use

21:19

to take their samples. That's why they're there.

21:22

She shows off that she has the

21:24

stylus. Maybe don't tell them

21:26

that. I don't know. She's trusting the kids

21:28

to keep their mouth shut. I'm going to

21:30

tell you right now, as someone who has

21:32

children, whenever you tell them, keep a secret,

21:35

don't mention this, the best you'll get

21:37

is the old. I'm

21:40

certainly not going to mention anything that might,

21:42

they cannot keep a secret to say their

21:44

last. The

21:49

bad bats are stripping down their armor

21:51

of markings, but it's still

21:54

completely different armor than anyone has.

21:56

In the whole galaxy. They are

21:58

the most conspicuous. looking ass group of

22:01

clones ever. I thought they were gonna get

22:03

some old clone armor that

22:05

they had in tow and

22:07

leave wrecker on board. Yeah. Nope. Everybody

22:09

knows what a clone force 99 is

22:11

by the way. It's not

22:13

like because of the tattoos they got on

22:15

their goddamn armor. You got a guy

22:18

with a scumpling for a hand. Make

22:21

him wear a glove or put his hands in

22:23

his pocket something. No, no, not

22:26

necessary. Ramparts worried. He says

22:29

you guys are gonna stand out like

22:31

overheated gomorrhines, which is a great

22:33

line. Gomorrhines are of course those

22:35

weird lizard green pig guards from

22:37

Java's palace that get snatched

22:39

up by the rank core. He also says

22:42

I didn't just make a device Admiral on

22:44

looks alone. Brushes some dirt off his shoulders.

22:46

Yeah. I'm not just a piece of meat

22:48

working for the Emperor. I also have a

22:51

brain. People often forget that Hunter reminds him

22:53

that the empire screwed him over and we're

22:55

the ones that broke you out. So don't

22:57

let your allegiances get screwed over here. Yeah,

23:00

right. Like that's gonna stop him from betraying

23:02

you at some point. Of course. Yeah. They

23:04

step off the shuttle and instantly the dude

23:06

is like, what the hell is this? This

23:09

nerd, this Lieutenant nerd. You're

23:11

not on my schedule on your

23:13

uniforms. They aren't on regulation. Rampart

23:15

walks out, pulls rank on him

23:18

and ask them, take it

23:20

up with target. If you've got a problem,

23:22

which is expert name dropping by Rampart, the

23:24

kind you only get to do if you've

23:26

been a vice Admiral, Rampart dismisses two troopers,

23:28

sending guard is citing Imperial code. He tells

23:30

him to go back to the barracks. There

23:33

are a lot of little touches

23:35

that I enjoy. So for instance, a battalion

23:37

of stormtroopers walking by and they're led by

23:39

a single clone commando indicating they're being finned

23:42

out, but there are still a couple. There's

23:44

management roles, right? Now this might be my

23:46

favorite part of the episode. They open the

23:49

door. There's a tech guy with

23:51

the big doofy helmet like dad on the

23:53

desk star. I'm going to need to

23:55

run your code captain because you guys

23:57

are not on the manifest or whatever.

24:00

One of the bad batches pulls out his gun

24:02

and just shoots the dude. And

24:04

when he does, I urge everybody to go

24:07

back and watch this. This is amazing animation.

24:09

Rampart is like, what the

24:11

f*** did you just do? But he doesn't say anything.

24:13

It's all his face and his hand gesture. Very

24:16

funny, very nice detail. Meanwhile,

24:19

Wrecker gets accosted by the

24:21

lieutenant who comes up asking

24:23

more questions. He says, oh

24:25

yeah, sure, let me show you something. And then he

24:27

knocks him out, which again is very

24:29

New Hope-ish, right? Yeah, this whole sequence

24:32

is... Except New Hope, they had the

24:34

decency to disguise themselves in Stormtrooper armor.

24:36

These are all homages, obviously, to New

24:38

Hope. Rampart's hassling Echo for taking too

24:40

long. There's a vessel headed to Tantus,

24:43

but they can't get the coordinates until

24:45

after it launches. So the only way

24:47

to do it is to stow away

24:49

on the ship. And Rampart says, we're

24:52

all gonna die, basically. Because

24:54

this part of the planet is insane.

24:56

Science missions are among

24:58

the most heavily guarded, especially ones

25:00

going to Tantus. There's no way.

25:02

We're gonna get caught. They're gonna kill us all. So

25:05

I got confused here. I don't know

25:07

if this happened to you. I thought Hunter

25:09

was saying that he was the one who

25:11

had to get on board, but it ended

25:13

up being Echo. No, I knew it had

25:15

to be Echo because they need the scumpling.

25:17

Okay. I thought at first, they'd say, oh,

25:20

we're gonna sneak on board. And I said,

25:22

that's pretty ambitious. I thought it was Hunter

25:24

because he's the sneaky one. He is the

25:26

sneaky one. But Echo's going solo. They'll follow

25:28

behind, hit your ride to Tantus. Rampart starts

25:30

to protest. Their plan is for him

25:32

to go on board, turn

25:34

off the proximity sensor, have

25:37

their ship glom on

25:39

to the side of

25:41

this shuttle without anyone

25:43

noticing. It's batch of

25:45

crazy. Cut back to Omega trying

25:47

to do her plan. I

25:50

thought there was supposed to be a distraction.

25:52

No. They did absolutely nothing. The hottie,

25:54

Dr. Scaldar, sees her and gets

25:56

a little suspicious. Still my heart.

25:59

So, Omega. a tile loose and

26:02

then a bunch of them fall down clatter

26:04

to the ground. Loud as shit. She does

26:06

see that there is a elevator shaft or

26:08

some shit I don't know, some open space

26:11

behind the wall. But when

26:13

Scaldor comes into her cell, Amiga's

26:15

chilling. Yep. Posing.

26:17

Oh hey! Oh! Didn't

26:19

see you there. She came down like my man Tug Speedman reading

26:21

a book down the stairs like,

26:24

didn't see you come in there. Oh. Just

26:26

catching on with some reading. Didn't see that. She

26:29

just fine ass walks out like, oh my

26:31

god. Then she tells the other kids, found

26:33

our way out. We got this. This

26:35

isn't quite Cobra formula, but it's Cobra formula ask. Did

26:37

it work? Uh huh. What

26:40

did you find? Our way out. He definitely

26:42

stopped and waited for them to ask the

26:44

question so that she can hit him

26:46

with a Cobra formula. Got to the space

26:49

station. We're in the science

26:51

vehicle docking bay. We got Echo sneaking

26:53

around. He bumps into some R2 units.

26:55

Astromix. And then he sees them

26:57

get sucked up. Someone got sucked onto

27:00

the ship. Using that

27:02

fantastic little Hoover vacuum

27:04

extension that all ships have

27:06

to get the droids loaded on. So

27:09

he's hopping on a cargo pallet

27:11

and then he's hiding behind boxes

27:14

and the troopers to any guard

27:16

don't notice. And he

27:18

manages to get sucked up into the

27:20

tube before anybody notices. Sure does. The

27:22

bad batches are trying to follow on

27:25

their shuttle. They dumped the nerd lieutenant

27:27

out. The record just drops his limp

27:29

ass body. It says about time. I

27:31

like the idea of him just being

27:33

annoyed with them for a change as

27:36

opposed to everyone being annoyed with him.

27:38

And now Echo's hacking. It sets off an

27:40

alert. He has to take out a trooper that comes

27:42

to check on him. He fakes the voice and gives

27:44

the all clear. Now Hunter is

27:46

hanging back in the shuttle and Mays, I

27:48

don't know if you noticed this, but the

27:50

shadows and the light coming across their faces

27:54

as they're like following but not getting

27:56

too close. SRL suspicions

27:58

again. artwork,

28:00

amazing animation on

28:03

this show. This is truly the peak of Star

28:05

Wars animation if you compare it to where

28:07

they were at the beginning of

28:10

the Clone Wars. Ramparts, Naysing, just

28:12

gotta go. We can't do this.

28:15

Coming down to the wire. And

28:17

Hunter, Hunter does the quarterback

28:19

move of throwing to the

28:21

open space before the

28:24

guy is open. He flies under the

28:26

science vessel. He flips around at the

28:28

very last second. The proximity sensors are

28:30

deactivated. They latch on and everybody

28:33

jumps into hyperspace together. I got

28:35

to drop this one line

28:37

because Rampart is panicking and he

28:40

says abort mission. Like he finally just says it

28:42

like an order and rather than

28:44

everyone telling him to shut the hell up, Hunter

28:46

very coolly without making eye contact. It says negative.

28:50

And that maze that's TGT right there.

28:52

Yeah. That is tough guy talk from

28:54

our guy, Hunter. So we did it.

28:57

We're headed to Tantus. I mean, they

28:59

figured it out. They figured it out.

29:01

They still don't know where it is,

29:03

which again leads me to believe that

29:05

Project Necromancer will continue. I've

29:07

thought about it. They might get Omega out. They

29:10

might do the prison break, but the

29:12

important thing is they have her blood

29:14

samples. They've got enough at least to

29:16

continue to work on this. Yeah. I

29:19

wonder how often they need it. They're

29:21

basically taking samples every day that would

29:23

require her to be kept around, but

29:25

who knows? I do think

29:27

there will be clearly a prison

29:29

break combined with a rescue mission

29:31

in the next two episodes combined

29:33

with a double cross, right? Like

29:36

Rampart will get them over. Rampart

29:38

is inevitably going to cause trouble,

29:40

try to ingratiate himself back into

29:42

the empires, good graces, and turn

29:45

his prison sentence into an opportunity. An

29:47

opportunity to get his own ship back

29:49

called the forever. Yeah. His star destroyer

29:51

named live forever. He will double cross

29:53

him. There's no chance this will end

29:55

up positively for him. You don't think

29:57

he's gonna show up any. A

30:00

new hope? Yeah. We're not

30:02

gonna remember the name Rampart forever? This is

30:04

the best part. He actually gets his own

30:06

Star Destroyer and then Vader force chokes him

30:08

for like missing an exit on the hyperspace

30:11

plane. That's

30:15

it for Bad Bats, the other news

30:18

we've got. The trailer a couple weeks

30:20

ago, Maze, for the new video game

30:22

coming out later this year. It's available

30:24

for pre-order. Star Wars

30:26

Outlaws! And it is the first

30:28

true open world Star Wars game

30:31

and it is set in the age of the

30:34

Empire and the age of the

30:37

crime families. The Pikes are

30:39

in it, the Huts are in it, Crimson

30:41

Dawn, everybody's in it including a couple of

30:43

new ones. And you

30:45

get to play this character who is

30:48

a real piece of shit. Are

30:50

you a video game guy? I ask you this

30:52

every time. I haven't played video games in a

30:54

while. I enjoyed the Fallout TV

30:56

show that just came out. Oh yeah.

30:59

They released all the episodes because that was one

31:01

of the last games that I was really hooked

31:03

on, which is Fallout, Fallout New Vegas. Walt Goggins,

31:05

right? Walt Goggins is a noseless ghoul and

31:08

that's a similar thing where it's

31:10

open world and you can roam

31:13

around the wasteland collecting things. So

31:15

I do like this type of

31:18

game. Correct me if I'm wrong.

31:20

I feel like they've tried to do a Star

31:22

Wars open world game for a while and haven't

31:24

quite figured it out. Yes. For

31:26

a long time there's been a lot of rumors

31:29

about a Star Wars open world game. Different

31:32

iterations have been unsuccessful. So

31:34

this is a very moment

31:37

of great excitement for Star Wars

31:39

gamers. I'm like more Star

31:41

Wars than I am gamer. I

31:43

like story mode games more. I

31:45

just like falling into the character

31:47

or whatever. So Jedi fallen order, Jedi

31:49

survivor. Even Battlefront

31:52

2, which people think of as

31:54

kind of like a, what do they call them?

31:57

Group gaming. I can't remember what the term is.

31:59

MMORPG. Yeah, massively multiplayer online

32:01

role-playing game and it does have that

32:03

but also has a story mode to

32:05

it. So that's what I that's what

32:07

I enjoyed and I played in again,

32:09

the story modes on all these

32:11

Star Wars games are

32:14

cannon. They like whatever

32:16

happened. So when Bill

32:20

Burst character in Mandalorian

32:22

talks about operations cinder,

32:24

like that's real. And that came from

32:27

Battlefront because Battlefront starts with your

32:31

first mission of Battlefront is on Endor and

32:33

then at the end of the mission, the cutscene is

32:35

everyone looks up and the Death Star explodes

32:38

and everyone's like, Oh shit. And

32:40

you know, in Return of the Jedi, you kind of feel

32:42

like, Oh, you know, and that's it. And then the Empire

32:45

fell. But Battlefront 2

32:47

really takes you to like, no, there

32:49

was a whole like contingency plan. And

32:51

you follow you kind of play the

32:53

game from the perspective of one of

32:55

these Imperial officers trying to execute operations

32:57

cinder. So all

33:00

that to say, really

33:02

excited for that game. When it comes out,

33:04

I still got to finish. The Jedi survivor,

33:06

of course, probably do that in the off

33:08

season. I do love the concept of a

33:10

Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto, where you can

33:12

rack up some, some

33:14

star felonies and get the storm

33:17

troopers chasing you or the X-wing police,

33:19

whatever it may be. That I think

33:21

is the coolest part is that like

33:23

every Star Wars game has been be

33:25

a Jedi, be the Empire, be a

33:27

part of this bureaucracy, right? And

33:30

now it's like, no, we get to be real

33:32

pieces of shit. And you know who I'm holding out

33:34

hope to see, man. Haven't seen them

33:36

in Mandalorian. Haven't seen him book a book

33:38

with fat. Haven't seen him in a silk.

33:41

I haven't seen him in

33:43

bad bats. My

33:45

guy, Hondo Naka man, old

33:48

pirates. Got to make it. Got to make

33:50

an appearance somewhere, man. That's crazy. That's the

33:52

one you want. That's the great white Buffalo,

33:55

huh? That's one of my favorite, all time

33:57

favorite Star Wars characters. I think I did

33:59

this right. a long time ago. I think

34:02

it goes one Vader, two mall,

34:04

three Sal Guerra and

34:07

four is like Hondo Onaka. I love

34:09

Hondo. No pure good guys near power

34:11

rankings. That's weird. I mean, it's almost

34:13

like we have a podcast about Sith

34:15

Lords. Well, it is

34:17

what it is. I think who

34:19

might my next favorite would be mean Han

34:21

Solo is not cracking your top

34:24

five. Han's cool. He's funny, but

34:26

not. I would definitely

34:28

put Ahsoka over Han. I

34:30

would put grief. Cargo. RIP

34:33

my guy. What does Cassian have to

34:35

do in indoor season two to climb

34:37

up into those power rankings for you?

34:39

Is he close? He's very close.

34:41

Absolutely. So is Luthan. That's

34:44

true. Luthan is probably the true gem

34:46

of that show. Here's what I need

34:48

from Cassian to be honest with you,

34:51

regardless of whether it's to climb my rankings or not.

34:54

In Rogue One, there's

34:57

a scene where he tells Jin we've

34:59

all done terrible things. Like you're not the only

35:02

one who's lost people. You're not the only one

35:04

who's been a real piece of shit in

35:06

order to see this thing through. And

35:08

yeah, we saw him shoot that guy in

35:11

the beginning. That didn't even feel earned because

35:13

it was a cold open, essentially. Yeah. I

35:15

need to see him. What is it? Bix

35:17

is his girl. Yep. Who's

35:19

another smoke show. Good

35:21

Lord. I need to see

35:23

him like have big sigh, but like have big

35:25

sigh because he crossed her over. So

35:28

you want him to hurt the people he loves and

35:30

that earned

35:32

him some credibility with you. Yeah, man.

35:34

Yeah. Got it. Anyways, that'll do it

35:37

for this week's episode next week, episode

35:39

14. And then we're back for tails,

35:41

tails of the empire. And then we're

35:43

back. May 4th. So until next time,

35:45

I remind everybody that when someone tries

35:48

to make you abort the mission, you

35:50

just say negative. When

36:43

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36:45

no more work to be done, I have to go

36:47

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