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On The Bad Batch's Final Season

Ok, ok, I am aware this sounds like a massive dose of copium but hear me out.

I've been prepared from the start for The Bad Batch to have a tragic ending. How could it not? We know what comes next. We know the Empire prospers. We know that Rex, Gregor and Wolffe end up alone, having given up the fight.

But just look at that release schedule:

Not a peep of promo since the strike ended and all of sudden we're premiering within a month? With a three episode premier? And two extra multi-episode drops? And the series finale airs on May 1st?

It sure seems like they're determined to get the series concluded by May the 4th, doesn't it?

Now look at the episode titles:

The Cavalry Has Arrived. That's an odd name for a series finale. There isn't exactly a sense of...finality to it. Compare it to the series finales of TCW and Rebels: 'Victory and Death'. 'Family Reunion and Farewell'. 'The Cavalry Has Arrived'.

I'm telling you, they're gearing up for a May the 4th announcement of something, and that something will be directly related to the Bad Batch's fate.

I have no idea what it will be. A new series? A movie? Something else entirely?

Now obviously, even if this is true it doesn't mean we won't get a hefty dose of tragedy. I still expect a number of my favourite characters to die. But a number of my favourite characters survived The Clone Wars, and that ending was bleak. This time, it's starting to feel like they're gearing up for something hopeful. Like maybe (just maybe) this won't be the last time we get to watch the clones fighting the good fight.

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UM...GUYS?

ABOUT THAT...

IMPERIAL COMMANDER FROM THE TRAILER...

I HOPE I'M DREAMING IT, I HOPE I'M DREAMING IT, IT'S A HOT TAKE BUT I HOPE I'M REALLY DREAMING IT, PLEASE

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I am rewatching Rebels as I often do and there is a scene in season 2 episode 18 that really freaks me out after having seen Ahsoka.

Basically there have been theories that Ezra turned to the dark side between Rebels season 4 and Ahsoka, which could end up being true, especially after taking this scene into consideration:

It happens when Ahsoka, Ezra and Kanan have gone to the Jedi temple on Lothal and Kanan has entered the doorway. There he encounters a Temple Guard. The dialogue plays out like this:

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Guard: I wondered when you would return.

Kanan: A temple guard. I’ve come for knowledge. I need to know how to defeat Vader and his Inquisitors.

Guard: Try to fight, and you will fail. The Rebellion will be destroyed. You will die, and your apprentice will become a servant of evil.

Kanan: What are you talking about?

Guard: The dark side. It pulls at him, it calls to him. Eventually, he will be consumed by it.

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The guard could of course be referring to Ezra falling towards the dark side at the end of season 2 and beginning of season 3. However, he clearly says that Ezra will be consumed by the dark side, this did not happen in Rebels.

Furthermore, the Rebellion has become the New Republic by the time Ahsoka takes place, which we all know is a corrupt system already. Kanan of course meets his demise in season 4 of Rebels. These things happened because the Rebellion tried to fight against the dark side. There was balance in the force, Vader and Palpatine on the dark side and Luke and Leia on the light. Freddie Prinze Jr. made sure we all understood this.

So by defeating the two dark powers, the force needs to balance out. Perhaps this will be done by turning Ezra to the dark side, or perhaps nothing will happen at all.

Food for thought…

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I found this photo while scrolling through my camera roll last night….

This random ass fake quote generator predicted the Bad Batch finale back in november…

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May the 4th be with you all!!

I hope y’all have had or will have a good may the 4th, I sure did😁

Now go back to crying about whatever it is you cry about

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just saying, Din Grogu: broke my heart.

tore it out of my chest.

dangled it in front of my eyes.

put it back.

onions? cut.

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all the rebels fans are rising from the trenches and i’m so excited

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Rebels fans are really living life at its finest right now, every other week we get something or someone from rebels in the Mandalorian (Purgill, Zeb, Meiloorun), we got our first real looks at live action Hera, Sabine and Ezra this weekend, we got our first look at live action Thrawn, LARS MIKKELSEN IS RETURNING AS GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN

I am having the best time, oh to be a Rebels fan in 2023

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Okay, I promised I would discuss my thoughts on the Bad Batch season 2 finale. It has been 5-7 business days and I feel like I can form coherent thoughts about this now. So here it is.

The Bad Batch season 2 finale: my thoughts

To begin with, the Bad Batch means so incredibly much to me, it is difficult to put into words. As someone who has always lived with one foot outside of the group, I felt like I must have been from a bad batch myself. When I was young, I was the strange girl with huge glasses, a weird name, a big belly and a strange younger brother. When I got older I was the weirdo who played that one sport that nobody ever heard about, I still had huge glasses and I wasn’t skinny. Now that I’m 18 years old, I am the strangely quiet guy in the corner of the classroom with three different names that people call me, still huge glasses, piercings, tattoos and I am still not skinny.

I have always been weird, foreign, different.

When I first saw the Bad Batch’s arc in the Clone Wars, I immediately felt at home. I had only been a Star Wars fan for a short while when I reached the end of the Clone Wars, and the moment when the Marauder first opened and showed these four clones was when I knew I had finally found my place.

When I had gotten through six seasons of a show where the greatest and most powerful soldiers all look the same, sure they have different characteristics but it doesn’t matter which squad they’re with, they could be mixed and matched and they would always be a unit. The clones were like all of the people I never truly fit in with, I shared traits with them, but I was never one of them. And then, all of a sudden at the very end of the show, there are clones that look completely different, sound completely different, act different, and even then they are the most efficient unit in the GAR. This Bad Batch is the best even though they are different. I can actually remember tearign up when I saw them fight the first time.

From the very beginning, Tech was very fascinating to me. Here was a clone trooper, a soldier, who was all skinny and scrawny, he wore a helmet that didn’t completely cover his face, he had bad posture, he wore glasses; and even with all of these things he was extremely efficient and a very valuable part of his team. This guy was so different from not only the clones but generally he wasn’t what anyone would call soldier material. The biggest thing for me was that he wore glasses.

It sounds silly, I know, but I have always been and still am very insecure of my glasses and my bad eyesight. Because of this, whenever there is a character that wears glasses not because they look good or because they don’t have the energy to put contacts in, but purely because they can’t fucking see, I am immediately hooked. Especially with a character like Tech. I realise now, two years since I first saw the Bad Batch, that I also felt a connection to Tech because of his autism. I didn’t realise I had autism until very recently, and so to have a character, and a main character nonetheless, that is autistic means a lot to me.

Now, when season two started airing, and I noticed how much screen time Tech got, I was immediately terrified. It was clear very quickly that something was going to happen and I was not going to like it. We were being spoiled with as much Tech as possible, simply to make the loss all the worse for us. He got his own episode, he got character development, he got to bond with Omega for real and he got to get a glimpse of what his life without war could look like. And then he was ripped from us, all because he wanted to save his brother.

Not only was Tech, the now developed and interesting character, ripped from us. Tech, the first character in Star Wars that truly made me feel at home, the character who made me feel like there was a place for me too in this fandom, like I wasn’t going to jump out because I was not a cute skinny girl, was ripped from me. I lost so much more than even I think I understand. I had formed such a deep connection and comfort in this character, and the fact that he was taken away just as he was starting to really flourish made me feel physically and mentally sick for days.

The day after the finale aired, I had to push myself to get out of my bed in the morning so that I could get to school and do my tests. I had cried so much for so long that I had literally no feelings left. I was completely numb. I have never felt such emotional drainage before, and it was because of losing Tech.

My mom told me ”It’s just a character, he’s not real, you can’t actually mourn him” but the thing is that with the bond I formed between myself and this character, the extreme emotional ties I had to him, they made him real. The pain was real, the loss was real, and I had no idea what to do with myself.

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So yeah, these are my thoughts, and I know it’s not just on the finale, but it ties together.

I still don’t reallt have any idea what to do with myself, I actually teared up when I wrote his name the first time in this post. So yeah, I’m doing just fine:)

Anyway, livea-action Zeb was really cool, I loved that.

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Okay let me just say that they did REALLY WELL with live action Zeb.

Like we have had cases of animated characters not turning out that great in live action *cough* grand inquisitor *cough*

It really shows tho that Dave is involved with the Mandalorian because he DOES NOT fail with the live action version of stuff. Like???? ZEB LOOKED SO GOOD???? It was amazing. I fully gasped. I jumped off my bed. I was so excited.

And also they got the goat Steve Blum back to play Zeb, which is literally the only way to do it, so props to that.

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DUDES WE GOT FUCKIN ZEB IN LIVE ACTION WHAT??????!!!!!!!!!

also no I will not be commenting on tbb finale for 5-7 business days.

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Alrighty, the last Bad Batch Eve of season 2, how we doin’?

Anyone afraid to open Disney+?

I am.

I am terrified.

I have school, a life to manage.

How the hell am I supposed to do that if literally anything goes wrong in the finale?

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I just thought about what Clone Wars would have been like if they had the very expressive, clean and shablam animation that the Bad Batch has right now.

Imagine arcs like Mortis and Umbara with the animation from season 2 of the Bad Batch.

It would have been even more horrifying

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Guys when I tell you I am TERRIFIED for next week there are -15 lies in that statement. I am SO FUCKING SCARED for whatever is gonna happen next and I almost don’t even wanna find out.

I am especially scared of what the fuck Plan 99 could be(the name of episode 16) cause you know it has to be something utterly horrifying if it’s 1. The name of THE LAST FUCKING EPISODE OF THE SEASON(OR MAYBE EVEN SHOW) and 2. The number that literally has everything to do with this squad.

I bet 99 is the last plan they came up with and it’s gonna be something terrible like ”sacrifice yourself right fucking now” or ”whatever it takes to complete the mission, do it” or ”save your brothers before you save yourself at all costs” and I am so scared because I just know either Tech, Hunter or Crosshair is gonna die this season, and it’s happening next week.

Lord have mercy

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The new episode’s thumbnail is Crosshair and I am fucking terrified

Let’s do this

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Okay don’t get me wrong, I love seeing Tech smile so much, but I do NOT like the whole thing with him and Phee.

Keep yo hands off my man, bitch

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A Master List of Rex/Anakin Fics

Every fic from my ao3 bookmarks that have Rex and Anakin together. There will be some polyamory in there with Padme or Obi-wan as a warning

I will be warning you if a fic ain’t complete I just don’t want to write out all the way, if polyamory is involved I will say with who and stuff. If there’s a trigger warning I’ll try to catch them here instead of not including them but I’m not perfect so be careful please.

Also unless stated otherwise, each fic is rexwalker and complete.

happy browsing :)

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