The lieutenant scolds him for losing men and the cargo, which is being kept secret from the clones, in a facility that is in terrible conditions. From the get-go, the imperial lieutenant is rather hostile toward Mayday, despite the clone being technically the higher-ranking officer. Once Crosshair and the group arrive at their destination, they meet the clone in charge of the facility, a commander named Mayday. (That arc also boasts an episode directed by Walter Murch, the editor of Apocalypse Now.) “Battle of Umbara” served to shine a different light on the relationship between clones and Jedi, which had up to that point been rather friendly, even brotherly, and “The Outpost” is making the dark side of that type of relationship clear to Crosshair. Indeed, this episode feels like a spiritual successor to the “Battle of Umbara” story arc of the original Clone Wars, which follows a clone troop as they clash with a Jedi general with zero regard for their lives, one who uses them as expendable bait. Making matters worse, his commanding officer is some imperial lieutenant with about as much regard for the clones as Pong Krell. As for Crosshair, he is still useful to the Empire, so he’s being shipped off to his next assignment, retrieving some stolen cargo from a remote imperial outpost. We see a very unsympathetic officer dismissing concerns by the clones asking what they are supposed to do now that they’re being forced into retirement. Now that Palpatine duped the whole Senate into passing his conscription bill, the clones are getting the boot. In a staple of the Star Wars franchise, his redemption has been telegraphed from the very first episode of the show, so it is rather satisfying to finally see Crosshair reach a crossroads in his personal journey of discovering what makes a good soldier. This week we see the return of Crosshair, who has stealthily become the MVP of the season. Instead, they are being slowly left out to die with negligence, the Empire’s favorite weapon (give or take a Death Star). There is no giant declaration of a mass retirement for the clones, no ship transporting every clone to a farm upstate, or even a mass execution. What’s shocking is that, even now that the inevitable has happened, is how quiet and understated the whole thing is.
But, now it is clear that there is no going back - the age of clones is over, and the time of the stormtrooper is here. From the moment The Bad Batch was announced, everybody was waiting for the show to answer one big question: What happened to the clones once the stormtroopers were introduced? So far, the ultimate fate of the clones has been a slow affair, with various bills and propositions about a conscripted army being presented in the Senate.
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