Our Bad Batch season 2 episode 12 breakdown is here! This is the best episode of the Bad Batch and serves as a perfect bridge between the two eras of this show, and the Clone wars and Age of rebellion.

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Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, and Brianna McLarty

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Okay, they cover most of this in the recap and in the episode–and we’ve also talked about the history of Mangalore in our recap video. But I’m going to go over everything very quickly, skip to the next chapter if you already know everything about the history of Mandalore.

People settled on a planet called Mandlore, a field with giant monsters called the mythosaur–that’s the beast we see at the end of the episode. The early mandalorians learned to ride them [your people rode great mythosaurs]. The planet is also the galaxy’s only source of a super hard metal called beskar. They were all unified by tarre vizsla, wielder of the darksaber, which is why it’s a symbol of mandalorian rule. But then the mandalorians fight civil wars for several hundred years, until finally they choose a pacifist government.

The non-pacifist group, called death watch, is exiled to mandalor’s moon Concordia. Bo-Katan, from this episode, is a member of death watch, while her sister Satine ruled mandalore as a pacifist state. The clone wars happen, death watch and darth maul conquer mandalore, Bo Katan teams up with Ahsoka Tano to reclaim it–and like BoKatan says [i ruled here briefly]. Because the empire forced her out when they took over the planet.

Years later she’s given the darksaber by another mandalorian, she leads her people against the empire, and then this happens [explosion]. Scattering mandalorians across the galaxy, with Bo katan losing the saber to moff gideon, which is all the backstory before this show begins.

There’s a bit more to it than that, but we’ll cover more lore as we go along.

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The Armorer’s previous monologue is from an episode of the Book of Boba Fett. I’ve said it many times, but it was really silly to haveDinand Grogu reunite on that show, just sayin’. Anyways, her dialogue is key [foretold mythosaur heralding a new age]. Now we talked about this last week, but the Mandalorian seems to be moving away from the western and samurai influences of season 1 and 2, and now expanding into a story that is a full-on biblical epic.

Which is a good band name.

Chapter 17 was titled the Apostate, which is a person who has left or been exiled from a religious community. It begins with the baptism of a child, and this episode ends with a baptism. And the stone tablet that Sin has contains a passage from the Book of Exodus–and to paraphrase, it’s about the Jewish people being promised a good land to live in, after they escape slavery in Egypt.

And, in a very brief summary of the book of Exodus–the Jews were enslaved in Egypt, Moses was the chosen one who God appointed to lead them out of slavery and lead to their new home. There's a lot more to it than that, but for the purposes of this episode, that’s what you gotta know. So all of this comes together in this episode.

There’s a prophecy of the mythosaur rising from the waters–and here we see the mythosaur still exists. The real question for the series is, who is going to be the Moses figure in the show? The armorer says [bo katan wanted to rule by blood]. See, the darksaber works like the elder wand–you can only win it by taking it in combat. Bo Katn didn't come by it honestly.

In the canon we’ve seen, Pre Vizsla had it in the clone wars [clip]. The darth Maul on it formed pre vizsla, and left it in a temple on Dathomir. There it was found by Sabine Wren, who just sort of claimed it for herself, and eventually gave it to Bo-Katan [clip]. Because bo katan didn't win the saber, she failed to unite the mandalorians under her rule–because groups like the children of the watch don't recognize its legitimacy.