The Batch versus Monsters

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A decent episode of The Bad Batch last night, not as good as last week's but not bad. It was written by Tamara Becher, who is credited in the episode as Tamara Becher-Wilkinson. Interestingly, if I'm not imagining things, I think her imdb page was labelled Tamara Becher-Wilkinson when I looked at it last night. She was credited as just Tamara Becher in projects before 2013 and now it looks like she's Tamara Becher again. Did she decide the release of last night's Bad Batch was a good occasion to finalise her divorce?

This was her first Star Wars project but she's written an episode of Netflix's Daredevil series and two for Iron Fist. Like the hiring of Kari Skogland for Falcon and the Winter Soldier, this shows Disney might be looking at the Netflix Marvel series as a proving ground for writers and directors. It also shows a difference in the kind of writers being hired for The Bad Batch--so far there have been no writers whose top credit is writing for Rugrats, as there was on Rebels. Last night's episode was good, but I suspect Mike Michnovetz received a prominent story editor credit because there were some glaring plot holes, one of which was too prominent not to receive a bit of lampshading at the end.

( Spoilery review behind the cut )

The Bad Batch is available on Disney+.