I enjoyed the episode overall, but also found some of it lacking in places.

Bringing back Ahmed Best as Kelleran Beq was a nice touch, especially to be one of the people who helped save Grogu, for the shit he got because people couldn’t tell the difference between JarJar and the actor playing him. But his fight scenes were flat, along with the choreography and direction too. Some cutaways of him swirling sabers, and then cut to a wide shot, then back to cutaways of him swirling sabers. The background to the Speeder chase thing looked weird and cheap too.

Did the big flying creature thing keep Vizsla’s son in his mouth overnight somewhere else? Instead of just feeding him to the 3 baby flying in the nest? Why would a carnivorous creature attack its prey and then wait an entire day before attempting to eat it or feed it to its young? Vizlas’s son got spat out very dry too, no spittle, goo or fluid on him at all. Is the budget a little tight? Or was it meant to be funny?

As others have said already, no lookouts or early warning system for these big flying creatures or swimming megacrocs that often come and try and attack the Mandalorians, then carry the kids off, or just eat them? Yet the Mandalorians continue to simply train out in the open and make lots of noise. These attacks have been occurring often and for a long time going on Vizsla lines of dialogues: “Follow it to its lair”, “It always gets away”, and “It will kill the foundling if attacked. It has happened before when it has taken others.”

Foundlings are meant to be important to this warrior sect, right?

Weirdly, this was still one of the better episodes so far. Though I think any hopes for this season to have tighter writing, better use of the Volume or cinematography, and less fan service, are long gone based on what he have seen so far. I’ve found the Bad Batch more enjoyable and higher quality across the board this year, despite a few “filler” type episodes early on.