Canonical Star Wars is bendy. It's not the sort of thing that one can keep difinitive tabs on without periodically checking in with the latest "official" Star
Star Wars.
Hunter found that out the hard way, as his burgeoning fatherly relationship with the clone child Omega reaches a heart-melting zenith with the second episode of
The Bad Batch. “Cut And Run”, so titled for reasons that soon become patently clear, is rife with chain code intrigues and deep-cut guest appearances, but it’s all in service of underscoring what we were already beginning to suspect by the end of the premiere episode: Hunter and Omega are
Star Wars’ latest found family unit, Din and Grogu version 2.0.
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We’re probably still weeks away before the braintrust behind
The last time we saw them in the premiere episode of
Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Hunter and the Bad Batch (Dee Bradley Baker), sans Crosshair, had become guardians to the child clone Omega (Michelle Ang), an ingenue to the galaxy. In this second episode, titled “Cut and Run” (directed by Steward Lee and written by Gursiman Sandhu), the trouble with Crosshair on their trail takes a backseat in favor of an introspective glance at the shifting galactic order. The developing Empire is registering civilians. And this puts one clone in special danger since he has long deviated from his Republic service.