Hello I still haven’t gotten to watch the new TBB episode yet but I had the overwhelming urge to come on here and say how much I adore Batcher and hope nothing bad happens to her ever OKAY BYE.
Yeahhhhhh I had a hunch that Omega would pull a Plan 99 this season and I hate being right 💀
So this latest episode of Bad Batch should have been called”Plan 99” because that’s exactly what Omega did. They were trapped, no way off the island. Hunter failed to secure a ship. Crosshair and Omega were pinned down and Wrecker was still unconscious. Pabu was about to be burned down.
Personally I think they’re going to pick up where they left off. The Empire is still on Pabu looking for them and they still have no way of contacting Echo or Phee as long as their comms are being jammed. Plus, they’re not gonna let the people of Pabu get off that easily since they were “harboring fugitives.”
If the Empire does an orbital bombardment I will riot.
The fact that they’re probably going to skip the moment where Wrecker wakes up, realising the Marauder and Omega are gone, the moment where Crosshair grieves for Omega and blaming himself and the moment where Hunter races up the hills of Pabu to find Crosshair all alone knowing that Omega was last seen with him makes me very annoyed.
STOP CUTTING OUT IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF DIALOGUE AND ANGST
“I tracked down the Trandoshan and pulled some intel out of her.”
Now, hear me out.
I know we’re all still mad at Cid, and rightfully so. She sold them out for some credits at the end of last season, literally right after they’d lost Tech and almost died themselves. It was low, even for her.
But listen.
We don’t know what went down this time. CX-2 tracked her down. He interrogated her and “pulled” information out of her. We don’t know how much it took for her to give them up a second time, to put Phee in potential danger. Maybe it didn’t take much; maybe all he did was threaten her and it was enough for her to talk. But maybe she’d been determined not to talk but was forced to through rather violent measures. Remember in Rebels when Hera told Sabine, “The Empire has ways of making you talk”? Remember when that was demonstrated in morbid detail in Andor?
I’m not saying we should just give her the benefit of the doubt. If you hate Cid, you have every right to. But it kind of bothers me when people say that she’s “beyond redemption.” I think we’ve seen through Crosshair’s growth in the show that nobody is beyond redemption. So in my opinion, it’s probably not the most productive thing in the world to pile on the Cid hate and wish death upon her when we didn’t even see her side of things in that moment with CX-2. We haven’t seen her since last season, and we don’t know if she’s going about her life like a soulless rat or if the guilt is eating her alive, with the final nail in the coffin of her dignity being her forced to give up the Batch again.
Maybe it’s my empathetic nature and my desire to see the good in everyone (hence why Omega is my favorite character), but I’m willing to give Cid a chance to make her case before I write her off completely.
I really feel like one of the best things about Star Wars is the theme of second chances and giving people who are willing room to grow and improve. It’s what we’ve seen in this show so many times, and I really think there’s more to Cid’s story than just greed and betrayal.
(P.S. It’s a canon fact that Trandoshans can grow entire limbs back if they get one severed. We’ve also seen how evil the Empire is and how they will do anything to get what they want. Just some things to think about.)
I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."
It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"
It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.
It’s the way the season started with Omega telling him, “Maybe you don’t trust enough,” and now he’s trusting her to help him with his healing journey.
It’s the way many of the breaths we heard him take last season were labored from trying to survive harsh conditions, being brutally tortured, etc. And now we get to hear him take deep, calming breaths.
It’s the way for the two previous seasons he was put under such harsh, artificial lighting, and now he’s bathed in the warm, gentle light of an island sunset.
It’s the way I’m chewing through drywall because he’s healing.
Everyone has their theories on who they think the Clone X introduced in yesterday’s new episodes really is. I feel like it could swing in different directions, but my most likely guesses are either Tech or Cody.
Personally, I really hope it’s not Tech. Now hear me out. It’s not that I think it would be a bad thing on the writers’ account if it were; it’s that I don’t think I would be able to stomach the thought of Tech being used in ways that completely strip him of who he is. As heartbroken as I was watching Plan 99 and his death, I just think it would be so much worse if he were being forced to do all these terrible, horrible things in the name of the authoritarian regime he’d fought so hard to resist. And the pain it would bring the other batchers (especially Omega) would be so horrific. When I think about this, I think about the Grand Inquisitor in the Rebels finale saying, “There are some things far more frightening than death.” To me, the writers Winter Soldier-ing Tech is a much worse thought than keeping him dead.
Now for Cody, as much as I would hate to see him brainwashed by the Empire, that would honestly serve really well as a bridge between current TBB-era Rex and Rebels-era Rex. Could you imagine your best friend—whom you hadn’t seen in years and not knowing they were still alive or not—being revealed as a brainwashed puppet? Could you imagine having to k*ll your best friend who is but a husk of who they once were and will take you out with a blaster bolt if you don’t act?
It’s a very terrifying thing to think about either way, and there’s so much more I could say, but for now this word-vomit post will have to suffice.