Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.

Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.

Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin, and welcome to this

week's episode where we are here almost at the end of the Bad Batch. We are covering episodes 12,

13, and 14. And these were some excellent episodes, guys. So good. I feel like the season of the Bad Batch, the back half of it is just

so dramatic and super well done. And I'm just really excited to talk about it because I think that

these three episodes have a thematic link, but also are just, I don't know, the back half is so good

of the season.

It's so good. And if you've been following along with our Bad Batch coverage, you know that

we did receive screeners for pretty much this whole season back in, I don't know when, January,

end of January, February. Girl, no, no, no, no, December. Literally December. I, like, can't keep

track. But the first, when they sent the screeners initially, they sent episodes one through

14 and said, they're going to expire in three days. And Charlotte and I were like, oh, my God,

like freaking out. And so we were able to watch all of them at that time.

All of them except for the finale. It needs to be said. We still have not seen the finale.

We have not seen the finale. And anyway, but back in December, we watched all 14 in kind of a fever dream, to be quite honest.

It was like a beautiful bad batch fever dream.

But as we've been recording the bad batch in these chunks, these batches, more or less throughout the season, we've of course been revisiting them each time.

And I got to say,

rewatching these episodes in preparation for this recording, it was like watching them for the first time again. I remember like the highlights of each of these episodes, but there was so much

nuance and detail that I think I just hadn't realized. I hadn't allowed myself to really soak in because

we were watching pretty much the whole season in such a condensed time that it was. And of course,

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