Who is the Wookie Jedi? – Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 2, Episode 6 recap initially featured on Ready Steady Cut.
There are spoilers in this summary of Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 6, “Tribe.”
Tribe is very much that episode for Season 2 of The Bad Batch. Every piece of Star Wars media, no matter when it’s set, is almost required to include a Jedi and a lightsaber at some point. However, to reduce it to just those terms would be an understatement. Since the Jedi are supposedly all dead at this point in the galactic continuity, having been eradicated by Order 66, it is an intriguing inclusion in any case. Even more intriguing, however, is the fact that the Jedi in question is a youngster from the Coruscant temple. It presents a new angle on an old subject.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 6 Recap
We’ve already met Gungi, the Jedi, in the Clone Wars. He fears Clone Force 99 in particular because, as is understandable, he finds it difficult to tell them apart from the clones who carried out Order 66. He also longs to go back to Kashyyyk, the homeworld of the Wookiees, but is unable to do so because he was taken from it when he was a very young age.
Right away, it becomes clear that there are numerous interesting angles to consider. Despite the fact that they were not involved in Order 66 and that it was primarily the fault of the Jedi Order that children were taken from their homes in the first place, the Bad Batch feels a duty to care for Gungi and guilt over his situation. This isn’t explored as thoroughly as it could be, but let’s be fair to a 30-minute episode of an animated series that airs in the middle of a season.
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When we return to Kashyyyk, a place defined by its customs and culture but razed both literally and culturally by Imperial occupation and the atrocities committed by Trandoshans who hunt the Wookies for sport, there are also a lot of illuminating details. Again, it isn’t really explored, but it is undeniably there.
The absurdity of totalitarianism is made all the starker when it is contrasted with Kashyyyk’s idyllic surroundings, which appear to have been spared from urbanization.
I’m glad Tribe included brief depictions of people praying to trees and even of animals defending themselves from oppressors. The visuals are classic Star Wars, with amazing action and cinematography, and the entire thing seems to amount to a valid point about the Bad Batch having a responsibility to the galaxy, not just to atone for the deeds of their own kind, whether they were intentional or not, but to fight back against tyranny for the benefit of that galaxy’s next generation, like Gungi and, of course, Omega.
Disney+ is the only place to see “Tribe,” the sixth episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch
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