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** Well yes, they could do that, but that just brings even more risks. The group probably figured that it would be a lot safer if they went it themselves, especially since this looked like a suicide mission which could still go wrong in a million different ways already. Plus, if Hemlock so much as suspected that the Bad Batch was on their way to Tantiss, he likely would have tightened the security even more than it already was, making our heroes' odd even worse than they were already.
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** If Echo sends a transmission from the enemy ship, it would be detected, and thus the Empire would know that not only is there an enemy agent aboard their ship, but said enemy agent is transmitting their coordinates to his allies. Couple that with how the Empire realized that the Batch had infiltrated their station over Coruscant, and the end result is that you're looking at Tantiss being on high alert and way more heavily fortified.
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* If the Zillo Beast's armor is impervious to blasters, explosives, etc., basically anything that isn't the gas they killed the original one with in The Clone Wars or the stun beams that were used in TCW and this show, then why would Dr. Hemlock essentially just throw away ''two entire divisions'' of TK troopers that could've helped stop the Bad Batch's incursion? The Empire could always track down the Zillo Beast (which, I might add, was fleeing, not sticking around and causing havoc during the Batch's incursion) later. All that - and calling off air support - did was make it even easier for the Batch to carry out their mission.
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* If the Zillo Beast's armor is impervious to blasters, explosives, etc., basically anything that isn't the gas they killed the original one with in The Clone Wars or the stun beams that were used in TCW and this show, then why would Dr. Hemlock essentially just throw away ''two entire divisions'' of TK troopers that could've helped stop the Bad Batch's incursion? The Empire could always track down the Zillo Beast (which, I might add, was fleeing, not sticking around and causing havoc during the Batch's incursion) later. All that - and calling off air support - did was make it even easier for the Batch to carry out their mission.
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* Did the Bad Batch really have to follow the ship all the way to Weyland? Considering how careful they were trying to be in expecting security headaches since the previous episode, you'd think it would occur to them to let Echo go ahead of them and track him through his comm link, which he clearly used when he got on board the ship. If not that, they could've at least just detached immediately after exiting hyperspace and watch the science vessel enter Weyland from a distance to make sure Echo gets there. At least with either of these methods, they could've avoided most of the problems that happened in this episode even if news of their stunt got to Hemlock. Plus, Echo could still transmit them ''and'' Rex the coordinates.
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* Did the Bad Batch really have to follow the ship all the way to Weyland? Considering how careful they were trying to be in expecting security headaches since the previous episode, you'd think it would occur to them to let Echo go ahead of them and track him through his comm link, which he clearly used when he got on board the ship. If not that, they could've at least just detached immediately after exiting hyperspace and watch the science vessel enter Weyland from a distance to make sure Echo gets there. At least with either of these methods, they could've avoided most of the problems that happened in this episode even if news of their stunt got to Hemlock. Plus, Echo could still transmit them ''and'' Rex the coordinates.
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** The Batch have continued operating throughout the season, making it possible for the ISB to learn they are still alive. Additionally Nala Se did inform him about Omega, and we know Cid flipped on the Batch at some point. Additionally it's possible Hemlock just figured out he was lying in the first place.
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** The villagers saw a creature that was believed to be extinct by many people, and within just a few minutes of it chowing down on energy from their power plant and growing huge, the Empire conveniently shows up and captures it. You can put two and two together and assume that they have something to do with it - not only the fact that an extinct apex predator was brought back to life, but that the Empire showed up and captured it rather than killing it. As a result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the villagers are witnesses, and witnesses have a habit of telling others what they witnessed. That's something the Empire couldn't afford to have happen. A mass abduction of a small settlement on some backwater world, on the other hand, is way easier to cover up than the Empire's involvement in the return of the Zillo Beast species, and if you abduct all of the witnesses and no one witnesses ''that'', you're safe. Plus, as we saw a few episodes earlier in the midseason two-parter, the Empire covered up Rampart's actions on Kamino as a natural disaster, and the galaxy bought it until footage of the atrocity was shown to the Senate, so no reason to assume they couldn't pull something similar if they really wanted to.
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* Why would Tarkin send a probe to monitor the Bad Batch and ascertain how loyal they are, but ''not'' do so for the Elite Squad (who are arguably more of a wildcard than the Bad Batch - the latter were loyal to the Republic and were very efficient, but the Elite Squad are recruits that the Empire hasn't worked with before)? You would almost think that Tarkin and Rampart would actually want to ''see'' the performance of the Elite Squad, and whether they actually do as they're told, never mind evaluate whether or not they're competent replacements for the clone troopers.
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* He used the "dogmatic loyalty" excuse but the issue was that the clones were increasingly showing signs of independence and second guessing their nominal employers. Not all of them to the extent of the Batch or Rex's operation but enough that a clone uprising could be dangerous and difficult to put down.
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* Yes it's the empire and it's evil, but why exactly do the Imperials abduct all the citizens just for discovering seeing the Zillo Beast clone? It's not like anyone on the planet would discover Emperor Palpatine's secret cloning facility and a mass abduction would raise more questions than if they just annexed it under the pretense of helping them rebuild their cities.
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* Yes it's the empire and it's evil, but why exactly do the Imperials abduct all the citizens just for discovering the Zillo Beast clone? It's not like anyone on the planet would discover Emperor Palpatine's secret cloning facility and a mass abduction would raise more questions than if they just annexed it under the pretense of helping them rebuild their cities.
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* Yes it's the empire and it's evil, but why exactly do the Imperials abduct all the citizens just for discovering the Zillo Beast clone? It's not like anyone on the planet would discover Emperor Palpatine's secret cloning facility and a mass abduction would raise more questions than if they just annexed it under the pretense of helping them rebuild their cities.
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* I might've missed something in the previous episodes, but it certainly wasn't established in this one - how did we go from the Empire believing the Bad Batch was KIA on Kamino, to Dr. Hemlock asking Crosshair about them as if we're back in Season 1, where the Empire knew the Bad Batch had escaped. Only three major characters in this season - Crosshair, Rampart, and Wilco in the season premiere - knew, except Crosshair and Rampart, as far as I know, never told anybody, and Wilco ''was'' going to put it in his report before he was killed by Rampart. That just leaves Crosshair and Rampart, who both knew that the Bad Batch survived, but they never mentioned it to anyone (something like that would've/should've been shown on screen) and yet the Empire somehow knows that the Batch is still alive. How?
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* I might've missed something in the previous episodes, but it certainly wasn't established in this one - how did we go from the Empire believing the Bad Batch was KIA on Kamino, to Dr. Hemlock asking Crosshair about them as if we're back in Season 1, where the Empire knew the Bad Batch had escaped. Only three major characters in this season - Crosshair, Rampart, and Wilco in the season premiere - knew, except Crosshair and Rampart, as far as I know, never told anybody, and Wilco ''was'' going to put it in his report before he was killed by Rampart. That just leaves Crosshair and Rampart, who both knew that the Bad Batch survived, but they never mentioned it to anyone (something like that would've/should've been shown on screen) and yet the Empire somehow knows that the Batch is still alive. How?
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* He used the "dogmatic loyalty" excuse but the issue was that the clones were increasingly showing signs of independence and second guessing their nominal employers. Not all of them to the extent of the Batch or Rex's operation but enough that a clone uprising could be dangerous and difficult to put down.
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** Palpatine only wanted the clones for one purpose -- kill all the Jedi. They've served that purpose. And in his arrogance, he decided they no longer had any place in his new Empire. [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Luke did say]] that his overconfidence is his weakness, and Palpatine thought that with the Jedi gone (or at least wiped out enough to where it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to recover fully), he didn't need a army of trained Jedi killers to enforce his regime when an army of conscripts could be cobbled together much quicker and at a far greater number than any clones could, especially since said clones would die within a few years given their accelerated aging. The Empire [[WeHaveReserves could just recruit more men]] to replace the dying clones from any number of systems, conquer another world, then recruit more, rinse, repeat.
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* After the atrocity Rampart committed on Kamino is made public, Palpatine appears, and condemns first Rampart, then the clones, claiming that they were blindly loyal and carried out Rampart's orders without hesitation, and he used that as ammunition to discredit them. Was that not what he wanted this whole time though - a fanatically loyal army that would obey their orders (even ones as extreme as bombing their place of creation to the bottom of the ocean?) no matter what? Why would he use the very thing he sought in the Imperial military (loyalty to the regime, which he did get with the stormtroopers that succeeded the clones) to paint the clones in a negative light?
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* After the atrocity Rampart committed on Kamino is made public, Palpatine appears, and condemns first Rampart, then the clones, claiming that they were blindly loyal and carried out Rampart's orders without hesitation, and he used that as ammunition to discredit them. Was that not what he wanted this whole time though - a fanatically loyal army that would obey their orders (even ones as extreme as bombing their place of creation to the bottom of the ocean?) no matter what? Why would he use the very thing he sought in the Imperial military (loyalty to the regime, which he did get with the stormtroopers that succeeded the clones) to paint the clones in a negative light?
