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Vocal isolation of Rampart screaming in S3E14 🤣

Noshir Dalal hit it out of the park with this performance. I would kill to see a behind the scenes of him doing this episode.

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i wish i was social media me in real life

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Regardless of how the Bad Batch will end I'm just gonna say that I'm gonna miss them so much. I'm gonna miss seeing Omega grow up. I'm gonna miss Wrecker enjoying his mantel mix. I'm gonna miss Echo and his adventures with the batch/Rex. I'm also gonna miss Crosshair being so snarky. Even though we said goodbye to Tech I'm gonna miss our nerd. Last but not least I'm gonna miss Hunter being the leader. These characters came into my life a year ago (I know. I'm late to the game) and since then I've enjoyed watching their adventures. I know that I can always go back and watch from the very beginning but it's not the same as watching the episodes the minute they drop. All of them will have a special place in my heart and if I have kids one day I can't wait to introduce them to the batch.

I'm holding out hope that we get a new series with a clone rebellion so that we get more of the batch and our favorite men

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Crosshair - across the seasons

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I guess I'm trying to manifest a good ending for season 3 with these doodles, I just want them all back together :((

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slipping through my fingers all the time…

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“Oh God I want to feel again”

This scene was so wholesome

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hoping for a ventress spin off

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Staring at my own work and giggling bec what I did was funny but I have zero regrets and zero plans to apologize.

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✨ Royce Hemlock (Amalthia's Version) ✨ And this is so funny to me because I cannot bear to stare at his face for long so I decided to yassify him because this is my draw series and I can.

So Redneck Doug called him Jimmy Neutron and I wanna add to that and say this is Jimmy Neutron if he's the one who inhaled the megalomanium potion instead of Libby in the S3 episode 'The Tomorrow Boys' (which is the best imo).

Link to the rest of this series:

1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10 || 11 || 12 || 13 || 14 || 15

And omg there's only one art left it makes me cry.

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A schoolmate of mine posted "I drew a portrait of my crush and he was pretty impressed by it and asked me to teach him how to draw. I taught him. And I found out he used his newly acquired skill to draw his crush."

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Eric Lee Johnson

Cat Nap (Cat sleeping on porch), 1950s

New Zealand

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Assorted clone doodles from the past week or so LOL, feat. longer-haired Rex (gives off surfer dude vibes) and mohawk Tech (I MISS HIM)

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I have two theories: it's either we get a soft sequel or a secret 16th episode to be released in May 4th. The first one I had explained before, and the second is because istg i once read an interview with one of the people involved and they mentioned having 16 episodes for s3.

The Bad Batch Finale and Joel Aron’s cryptic tweet

Okay so Joel Aron, Director of Cinematography Lighting & VFX at Lucasfilm, tweeted this:

Initially, I thought that this was going to be the runtime of S3E15 The Cavalry Has Arrived. This episode being longer would make sense as it’s the finale of the show and it’s close in length to S1E1 Aftermath. However, I saw a screenshot floating around the other day that says the runtime of the final episode “spans 24 to 25 minutes”.

If this episode is the typical length then this timestamp must be referring to a different piece of media. The question is, what media? In an effort to determine what could happen in the finale, I went to that point in the films to see what I would find. None of them strike as much fear in me as what’s happening in A New Hope.

The Phantom Menace - Anakin has just won the pod race and they are celebrating his victory.

Attack of the Clones - Jango Fett and Boba Fett have just attacked Obi-Wan with seismic charges.

Revenge of the Sith - Anakin is looking out over Coruscant from the Jedi Council room. He has just revealed to Mace Windu that Palpatine is a Sith.

A New Hope - Before leaving to disable the tractor beam on the Death Star, Obi-Wan delivers a line which may foreshadow what’s to come in The Bad Batch.

Empire Strikes Back - Luke is trying to lift the ship out of the swamp on Dagobah.

Return of the Jedi - Luke, Han, and Chewbacca, along with the droids, are captured by the Ewoks.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Anakin and Ahsoka are heading towards Tatooine to deliver Jabba’s son back to him.

At 01:09:56:01 in A New Hope, or as close to it as I could get (Disney+ sucks) this is what we see:

Sorry it’s a photo of my computer, I don’t know how y’all take screenshots of Disney+.

“Your destiny lies along a different path from mine.”

Many people have been theorising that the show could end with the Batch and Omega surviving but being separated, either by choice or by circumstance. This line from A New Hope, as well as the fact that Omega’s voice actor, Michelle Ang, has described the ending as “bittersweet”, definitely make that a solid theory.

Maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree though. There’s also speculation about whether Omega is force sensitive, so maybe Luke using the force in Empire Strikes Back is the real clue. Despite Ventress not believing Omega to have a high m-count, and her not being one of Hemlock’s designated m-count specimens, we have seen characters with a low m-count who were capable of wielding the force. Sabine Wren, for example.

Still, Omega being force sensitive doesn’t prevent the theory that she gets separated from the Batch from being true. It could actually be a reason for that separation because she may pursue training or decide that her proximity to the Batch endangers them.

But wait, there’s more!

At this timestamp in S1E1 Aftermath, Omega is on the Marauder with the Bad Batch (minus Crosshair) and they’re setting off on what will be her first big adventure. Omega’s Theme is playing and she’s gazing out at space with child-like wonder. While they’ve just parted ways with Crosshair, the overall feeling in this scene is hopeful.

If the tweet is referring to this episode, it could mean that we get a wholesome Bad Batch family moment. Whether Tech is there or not may rely on CX-2 being unmasked. Perhaps it’s bittersweet because Tech truly is dead or because he’s alive but they cannot save him from the Empire. Or maybe it’s bittersweet for a whole host of other reasons.

Honourable mention

@kiffobaby also looked into what is happening at this timestamp if you combine the runtimes (including credits) of all episodes in clone relevant story arcs and didn’t really find anything of note. If credits were removed then it would put at us a different point in the arc, however it’s unlikely that we’d be looking for a timestamp in an arcs combined duration anyway.

If you’ve read this far, I love you and don’t worry, we’re almost done.

Secret 16th episode?

Seasons 1 and 2 each had 16 episodes which leads me to speculate that this timestamp could actually be the runtime of the final episode, a secret 16th episode.

Is it likely? No. Can I dream? Yes.