Meanwhile, in episode 9 of season 3 of Bad Batch We discovered that Ventress was not dead. She has become a premium hunter again in 18 BBY where this season 3 is taking place.
The index that would allow us to define the temporality of Underworld would be the armor of Stormtroopers which are those of the TO. In Bad Batch the TK soldiers have an armor that will not be that of the originals (and I am not even sure I would remember if there was a classic Stormtrooper armor in the series. )
Where it gets stuck for me is that I find it hard to imagine Ventress to come back to life and immediately become a premium hunter again. The idea that she is starting again for the third (or fourth?) Time her life by becoming a guard at a toll after the whole galaxy was completely turned upside down around her. But suddenly no, because continuity requires.
There must therefore be events that took place between Bad Batch and these three episodes. But not too much either. Because we discover that the Venator cruisers are still in deconstructions and that the start of the construction of the new imperial cruisers have just started. In addition, there are still republics Gunnship in service! (Instead of the Patrol Gunship Imperial) I would be tempted to place it a year after the events of Bad Batch, because this is what seems to me to be the most prudent. So somewhere in -17
It would imagine a story in which Assaj withdraws from the life of a bonus hunter definitively to land quietly away from everything.
On the other hand … In Bad Batch we don’t tell us that she became a bonus hunter again, I think? Just that she was contacted by Fennec to find Omega and investigate her Midi-Chlorian rate? Suddenly, other question, how could Fennec learn that Assaj returned to life? Or else, she contacted her as if it was normal, because she had never learned her death?
I would be surprised that Assaj after returned to life under the Empire, simply resumed his usual routine of a bonus hunter. It would be far too dangerous. So that means that Fennec had to find her differently. But again: how? That really assaj between the moment when she returned from the dead and the first episode of this tales of!
I do not come back to: how was it resurrected so easily lol ??? It is just a scene present to justify the coherence between the book and Bad Batch, but the magic of the sisters of the night is not supposed to go so far normally. This is why when they fight against the separatists, some are just living dead, bodies agitated by the magicians of Dathomir. Otherwise, I find it a little cheaté. (I still haven’t swallowed the “Somehow, Palpatine Returned.”) This is also the reason why this scene of a few seconds actually last several years in my opinion. But suddenly, it’s only several months, because it is present in Bad Batch in 18 BBY …
The return of Assaj is for me as the return of Dark Maul. It remains anything, but we almost don’t care, because the stories they created then are so excellent that it almost justifies that we can forgive inconsistency.
Edit2:
In fact, Assaj returns thanks to the power of wholesale love? We press the tear of your who falls on Ventress’s hand then Talzin says that the last words of Quinlan are “a gift” for her. The last words being “I love you”. But when Assaj asks what is the cost to come back to life, Talzin replies that this will be what his heart wishes the most.
I like the metaphor that is woven around that. By living, but without ever finding the love of her life, it is as if she only lived only a half-life. A life without his half, an incomplete life, a life of suffering (if his love turns into an attachment). To see, if it is necessary, it’s just me who smokes at 6 a.m., I should go to sleep rather x)
