As a whole, I prefer the three seasons of The Mandalorian over the two we have seen of The Bad Batch, however despite the most recent Mando episode which I really enjoyed, I so far prefer the second season of The Bad Batch over the third season of Mando. This is kind of crazy to think about, considering The Bad Batch receiving only a fraction of the budget that Mando received, each season runs for relatively the same length of time and the success of the previous two seasons of Mando.

I’ve got to admit, I’m not digging the themes/soundtrack in this third season of The Mandalorain. Ludwig Göransson set a high bar in his composition for the first two seasons and frankly, his apprentice (Joseph Shirley) hasn’t been meeting the standard Ludwig set. I don’t know why Ludwig wasn’t composing this season, I assume he just costs to much. 

On the other hand, I’ve loved the soundtrack/themes to this season of The Bad Batch. Kevin Kiner has really leveled up is composition game and it makes me confident in his soundtrack for Ahsoka. Kevins songs from this season that stand out to me are 'The Good Soldier' from The Outpost when Crosshair shoots that Imp and 'The Sacrifice' from Tech’s death scene. He nailed it on the two most emotional and important scenes in the entire show imo.

Both Mando S3 and TBB S2 have had their fair share of 'filler' and 'shit', particularly the episode 'Pabu' from TBB and 'Guns for Hire' from Mando. In my opinion, nothing in TBB has ever been as bad as chapter 22, 'Guns for Hire'. Due to it being the only Mando episode with a name not starting with the word 'The', I’m just gonna pretend it therefore doesn’t count as a Mando episode. 

We also have to factor into account that fact that it was recently revealed that we are only getting three seasons of The Bad Batch, unlike the several more we will see of The Mandalorian. I was quite shocked by this annoucement, previously imagining that it would run as long as The Clone Wars or at least Rebels. 

I believe however, that we are recieving a sort of 'trilogy' approach to the series (one season = one film). Alike with the second part to the Original Trilogy, the second part to TBB triliogy has ended with one of the main, good characters in captivity by the enemy. This is why I believe the third season will open on Hunter, Echo and Wrecker (sounds odd that there are so few) attempting to save Omega and Crosshair from Mt Tantiss. Perhaps they’ll have to do some kind of mission to figure out were they are first or something. This should leave the rest of the season to be dedicated to some kind of big finale involving other clones and hopefully setting up another animated series in the same animation style. 

Its also interesting that both seasons of The Bad Batch ended on Mt Tantiss, possibly indicating its future importance. 

I was beginning to think Paz Visla was a spy for Gideon, however The Armourer being the spy is looking like a far better theory, considering the spikes on Gideon’s helmet. 

Thoughts?

(btw if I don’t reply for a while, its because I’ll be off-grid for the next week and a half)