Star Wars Acknowledges The Franchises Oldest Spaceship Joke

Star Wars Acknowledges The Franchise’s Oldest Spaceship Joke

The Bad Batch uses a familiar stealth trick that jokingly references similar moments in The Empire Strikes Back and Attack of the Clones.

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Star Wars Acknowledges The Franchises Oldest Spaceship Joke

The sixth episode of Disney+ animated series The Bad Batch pays tribute to Star Wars’ oldest spaceship joke. While attempting to evade planetary sensors, the rogue Clone Force 99 employs a simple stealth technique that has been used by characters in past Star Wars characters over multiple generations. It’s a simple trick, and one that doesn’t seem like it should work at all, but humorously space ship scanners prove to be pretty easy to fool.

The Bad Batch takes place in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars, during roughly the same time period as Revenge of the Sith. Episode 6, “Decommissioned,” sees the clones trying to secure a defunct tactical droid from the planet Corellia. Clone Force 99 ends up having to fight their way out, with the help of the battle droid army left over from the Clone Wars and the Martez sisters, a pair of smugglers who were first introduced in the original Clone Wars series. But before that, they manage to successfully sneak onto the planet using a familiar method.

Clone Force 99 avoids detection as they enter Corellia by sticking to the bottom of another ship. Echo comments “This old trick?” and Tech explains “It gets us past the sensors every time.” This is a joking nod to similar incidents in The Empire Strikes Back and the prequel trilogy. In every case it is successful, so Tech’s comment is correct. On the face of it, hiding under a ship shouldn’t work very well in three-dimensional space, and shouldn’t fool complicated sensors–but in the Star Wars universe, a little bit of ingenuity beats technology every time. The joke references both the franchise’s fondness for repetition and the difficulty of thinking in three dimensions.

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In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo uses the same trick when trying to escape pursuit by the Empire, nesting the Millennium Falcon up against the underbelly of a Star Destroyer. This tactic allows Han to evade the Empire’s radar and make it to Lando’s Cloud City. The one person he doesn’t fool is Boba Fett. The bounty hunter presumably knows this trick because it was used against his father, Jango Fett, by Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Obi-Wan uses a similar plan to escape from the mysterious planet Genosis. Under the guise of being a client, Obi-Wan meets Jango and son, Boba, who is actually a clone Jango is raising as his son. Jango and Obi-Wan later engage in a chase throughout the Genosis asteroid belt, with Jango in pursuit in the Slave-1 ship he would later pass down to Boba. Obi-Wan eventually escapes Jango by hiding his own ship underneath an asteroid–the same trick that the Bad Batch used in the most recent episode.

Since Clone Force 99, like Boba Fett and all other Clone Troopers, are clones of Jango, there’s an added significance in their adaptation of the tactics that fooled their genetic base. Star Wars loves repeating tropes and plot points, even if it’s just in the form of a joke or stray remark, and this brief moment in The Bad Batch is the latest example of just such a homage.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/star-wars-spaceship-flying-planet-joke-trick-good/

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