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I’m the tin foil hat anon and I wanted to thank you for the response on my bb submission, you make great points. Although I was frustrated that some of them raised even more questions I didn’t think of myself… UGH… lol the S2 wait is gonna be painful

On the point of crosshair thinking his chip was removed a looong time ago(meaning before bracca or even as early as ep1) it wouldn’t make sense bc of his response to Hunter’s “you tried to kill us, we didn’t have a choice”. He says “and I did?”. So he seems to be aware he couldn’t control himself in all their previous encounters. Does it mean he knows his actions were due to chip then?

And you say crosshair avoiding the “when” question can be due to him not caring if the horrible actions he committed are chip or himself and it’s meant to show that he truly is despicable and evil. It could be the case because he shows absolutely no remorse or regret over slaughtering civilians, never apologizes to his brothers for not only trying to kill them but almost successfully incinerating(!!!) them. On top of that (apparently) without a chip he casually murders his own squad without a blink of an eye right in front of them.

On the other hand, he shows care for Omega’s safety in that episode and wants a better place in the universe for his brothers(even if it’s obviously a mistake). He sounds hurt and betrayed by them yet he still wants what he thinks is best for them. He seemed genuine and sincere in that moment. Even after they refused to join he protected them against the droids. He had multiple opportunities to shoot Hunter or others in the back but never did(and looked like didn’t even consider it). BUT after all of that he decides to raise his gun and try to shoot hunter who already has his gun drawn?! And in front of the whole squad holding him at gun point!!! WTF was he thinking?! WHY? I know they rejected his offer but still. Did his reveal completely change his plans? I just don’t understand. I know he is meant to be “complex and nuanced character with layers” but what a mood swing lmao

As much as I loved and enjoyed the bad batch overall I’m beginning to think that all these inconsistencies aren’t meant to be a crafty set up for next season. What they most likely are is just writers being vague on purpose so they don’t write themselves into a corner.

And as to why the batch and Omega didn’t even try to rescue their brother could just be so that Hunter and Crosshair would have this drama and disagreement at the end. Despite brad rau claiming their argument was over ideological differences. And Jen Corbett saying in that same cursed interview that the batch always love and support each other no matter what because they’re family. Well, I guess not crosshair, he doesn’t count anymore lol

And I agree with you I’d rather see the batch acknowledging they could have done more to try and rescue him than go into the chip details. However, I have a suspicion the real reason or explanation on why they never went back for him isn’t going to be brought up ever. Even *in universe* it simply does not make sense. Just makes me sad seeing how many people also try to come up with explanations. That should have been the writers job to provide something besides Hunter’s “you tried to kill us” bc that’s a weak argument and a total bs since he was SHOCKED to learn crosshair doesn’t have a chip.

Btw sorry for the long posts lol I just found your takes very intriguing

The season two wait is something awful and I only just started it lol. No worries about long asks though! My blog has become quite meta heavy over the years, so this is normal for my inbox. Besides, it’s a bit of a pot and kettle situation. It's not like my answers are particularly concise :D

Okay first, I have the unpopular (?) opinion that Crosshair was never planning to shoot Hunter, partly for the reasons you lay out here. You’re right, it doesn’t make sense, and rather than just accepting that he had that kind of “mood swing" (which would be pretty bad writing based on everything else we've seen) I think it does make sense that this was never his intention at all. Rather, it’s just a setup to make the audience think he’s about to shoot Hunter—that’s the obvious goal of that moment: the shock, drama, confusion, and then relief—but that doesn’t mean that in-universe that was ever Crosshair’s goal, even for just a split second. Omega leaves the pod. Echo, crucially, says that he can’t see her, setting up that Crosshair with his enhanced sight is probably the only one who could. He grabs his rifle off screen and as he does, Hunter leans over the side of the pod as he prepares to jump in, precisely where Crosshair needs to aim to hit Omega. Hunter is in his way. He’s directly in the line of fire, not because Crosshair is aiming for him, but just because that's where Omega is and they're both aiming for her: Crosshair with his rifle, Hunter ready to dive. The little shift Crosshair makes reads to me as him ensuring he doesn’t hit Hunter, despite him being right where he needs to aim, not him full on changing targets.

Even if we choose to read it as him deliberately aiming at Hunter—because yeah, the scene is meant to be ambiguous—I don’t think he, like, meant it meant it. Crosshair, as we’ve seen throughout TBB and TCW, can be pretty antagonistic. He likes to do things to get a rise out of people, like staring at regs until they snap at him, or pushing Rex’s buttons until he swings. If he was choosing to aim at Hunter in that moment, rather than Hunter just being in the way, I think it’s only bravado. Remember the “Don’t make the same mistake twice. Don’t make me your enemy” line? Crosshair has a need to remind others of his skill and power—whether it’s playfully like in TCW, or more seriously in TBB—and that’s likely what this is here. “Hey, Hunter. Look. I got my weapon back. I’ve got you cornered. I’m about to save our sister when you can’t. Remember that I’m good and you need me.” Those feelings of abandonment are tied up in that need to be needed, so when Crosshair is seething at being left behind, brutally showing them how he can get a drop on their leader and doing the thing they can't (save Omega) is a great way to remind them of what they threw away/re-boost his own self-esteem. But none of that means shooting Hunter was ever a real possibility. Because nowhere else do we see Crosshair willingly trying to harm his team. He does while under the chip’s influence, but then he never hurts Hunter when he’s captured. He kills his new team before they can hurt the batch. He helps them fight off the droids. There’s a tussle, but it’s not choreographed like either he or Hunter truly intends harm. Crosshair demonstrates no aggression during the entire escape, willingly gives up his weapon after saving Omega, and just stands there as they leave. If this guy actually wanted to hurt them, he would. Which is more likely, that Crosshair had a split second of real murder intent across two episodes of doing everything possible to help his team, or that this was just a mean bluff?

But personally, I don’t even think it was a bluff. I think the coincidence of Crosshair needing to aim there and Hunter already being there is just meant to imply an attack for the audience, not imply that Crosshair, in-universe, ever intended to hurt him, even for just a second. If he had, he wouldn’t look so surprised and sad when he realizes the others are pointing their weapons at him. If he was out to shoot Hunter, even if only for a moment, seeing his brothers come to his defense would be expected; a given. But if he only ever intended to save Omega, then seeing their weapons trained on him would produce the emotions we saw: shock that they’d turn on him and then severe disappointment. From Crosshair’s perspective, he didn’t do anything wrong and never intended to do wrong either. Hence, looking away in disbelief that his need to aim through Hunter was taken as a serious threat. He's realizing that they honestly believe that he would hurt them. Not the chipped version of him, but just him, all on his own.

As for the rest of his characterization, I think your point that “You tried to kill us” is a weak argument is pretty important. Meaning, Crosshair knows he didn’t attack his team and nearly kill them, the Empire controlling him like a puppet did. He (arguably) doesn’t owe them an apology for something that he was as much a victim for. However, we usually expect one anyway—like Wrecker still apologizing to Omega—because that's how people who have hurt loved ones react, whether the hurt was intentional or not, but that guilt is currently overshadowed by his fury that they left him behind. For him I think it’s a bit of a circular problem. Yes, he nearly killed them… but he wouldn’t have nearly killed them if they’d come back and rescued him. With the obvious disclaimer that the Empire is the real evil here, Crosshair as a threat is a bit of a problem of the batch's own making. If they’d done the right thing and gotten him out, there wouldn’t have been these scary moments like the engine incident. If they’d at least tried, then Crosshair likely would have been more guilt-ridden because he hurt his brothers who were trying to help him. As it stands, he tried to hurt the people who claim they're his brothers, but who left him behind. That's why he presents this second chance as magnanimous: from Crosshair's perspective, they haven't done anything to earn his care, but they're getting it anyway. An apology though? That's pushing things too far. If when Wrecker turned the group had locked him somewhere in the ship and gone off planet, leaving him there under the justification “Well, he tried to kill us!" would Wrecker still return with apologies for his actions... or would he be primarily pissed at being left like that, withholding apologies because they did him harm intentionally, whereas he did harm under another's control? I mean, maybe he'd be forgiving (the huge difference between his and Crosshair’s personalities is another factor), but also maybe not. Having Crosshair apologize for the near-death experiences requires 1. For him to feel responsibility for something that was forced on him and 2. For him to not be absolutely furious at the batch for abandoning him. They've gotta work through that before Crosshair can acknowledge that guilt.

Killing his second team on the other hand… idk if the batch cares, honestly. It was the killing of civilians that they balked at, not other fighters like themselves. Even the Jedis’ execution, something they clearly didn’t like, wasn’t enough to turn them from the Empire, presumably because the Jedi are capable of defending themselves. They fell in battle. It’s only when the Empire asks them to kill kids and untrained civilians that they go, “Absolutely not. This organization is evil.” Murder of other fighters was, you know, not great, but not worth defecting over either. Crosshair’s second team is made up of fighters who have been trying to kill them, so they’re definitely fair game. If we removed Crosshair’s plan from the situation and the batch was just fighting their way off Kamino after a capture, would they have also killed the team without a blink of an eye? Probably. It's self-defense. The second they raised their blasters it became a battle and, unless you’re specifically out to stun someone for some reason, battles end bloody. The shock is which side Crosshair was on, not that one side was willing to murder the other. It’s definitely messed up from our perspective that Crosshair laid a trap to murder his team to prove a point… but from the batch’s perspective? Crosshair killed a bunch of imperial fighters who were threatening them during a battle. That’s just an average Tuesday for them, nothing much to get upset over.

And omg don’t get me started on Crosshair wanting to find Omega a family! Like yeah, it’s obviously a #mistake and his faith in the Empire is Super Messed Up but... the underlying motivation is so good. It’s another situation where there’s no easy answer. Which is more important: Omega’s emotional health where she grows up with clones like her, the people who are now 100% her family, or her physical health, where she stays some place where she’s not always getting shot at, kidnapped, at risk of going hungry, etc.? It’s easy as the audience to go, “Of course she belongs with her dads!!” but if you choose to read the story through any realistic lens, Crosshair absolutely has a point about this being terrible environment for a kid, the exact point the batch themselves were making until Omega begged to stay. I love my feral, compassionate child but let me tell you, I YELLED when she yeeted herself out of that pod. This is a traumatized, formerly isolated kid with absolutely zero self-preservation, combined with, at times, a lack of basic common sense that’s inevitable in children (like not realizing she can’t pull a very heavy droid up through the water). As emotionally gutting as the thought is and, in this particular case, a Very Bad Idea, I really can’t fault anyone for raising the possibility that she go somewhere else, somewhere she’s likely to survive into her teens 😅

#TBB #The Bad Batch #SW #Star Wars #mymetas

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Summit Adventure Photography Workshop Part 1

Each year I make the trek across the country to Wyoming during the fall season to see the colors change, the animals in rut and to hone my skills as a professional photographer.

The workshop that I attend each year is known as the Summit Nature Workshop from the Summit Series of Photography Workshops. This workshop has shaped me into the conservation photographer I am today, but I will get more into that in my Part 2 blog Summit Nature Photography Workshop.

Although Nature photography is my passion, I have always wanted to take the workshop that is held the week prior, the Summit Adventure Workshop. Although conducted by the same great people from the Summit Series of Photography Workshops the two workshops could not be more different. The Adventure Workshop is a fast paced action sports workshop that is held in Jackson Hole, WY and is facilitated by the best Adventure Photographers in the world.

You might be asking yourself, “Why would a conservation photographer want to take an adventure workshop?” Well the answer is simple. I am a firm believer in getting outside of your comfort zone and pushing your creative boundaries to the limits. By photographing something outside of my wheelhouse it allowed me to think more creatively and push my photography to a whole new level.

It’s important in any profession to not become complacent in the everyday rhythm of the job. To learn new skills and then apply them in an innovative way. This workshop allowed me to do all that and more.

I will say that as a wildlife photographer that has traveled the globe I do feel like I am a bit of an adventure photographer, and growing up as a competitive gymnast I have done my fair share of high impact sports, but this workshop definitely pushed me as much physically as it did mentally and creativity.

Each day we would go out as a group to photograph athletes in awe inspiring locations. We would then return to edit our photographs and submit 3 images to be critiqued by the faculty. Each night we would be inspired by presentations from the faculty on the projects they were working on.

Our first photo shoot was located at the Snow King Treetop Adventure ropes course. I had never even seen one of these courses before, let along been on one, so it helped tremendously that we got the opportunity to spend sometime going through the course before photographing the athletes. During this shoot we also got the opportunity to photograph alongside world renowned adventure photographer and Nikon Ambassador Lucus Gilman as he showed us how to photograph mountain bikers using Profoto Speed Lights.

Lucus Gilman teaches students how to light the mountain biker at the peak moment.

Model and guide Bruce Bonich makes his way across the Treetop course.

“Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves back up!” - Model Bruce Bonich uses his strength to climb his way back up the rope course.

For our next outing we rode the Jackson Hole Aerial Tram to the top of Jackson Hole Resort and photographed trail runners and mountain climbers. This experience is a whole new element in itself, photographing in extreme cold with low oxygen levels... it was exhilarating

Trail runner Aicacia Young gets some air as she makes her way across the mountain top trail.

This mountain climber makes his way up Corbett’s Couloir.

For our last big outing we took to the water. Considering that I have never been on a river raft where I didn’t fall out at one point or another I was a little nervous for this trip, but our expert guides made for a smooth ride while we photographed kayakers making their way down the Snake River.

We couldn’t have asked for a more picture perfect setting to photograph kayakers.

Bruce Bonich shows off his tricks as he sports his classic “Bruce Smile.”

This workshop was an incredible experience and one I would recommend to anyone who is interested in learning more about photography. There is so much you can take away from spending time in the field with the expert faculty and staff, as well as your fellow students.

I met so many talent photographers but just to name a few...

Abby Lovis is an incredibly talented Adventure Sports and Travel Photographer from Perth, Australia and has a bright future.

Andrew Chad is an adventure photographer from Denver, CO and totally blew me away with his high energy and creative photography.

The faculty is a list of who’s who on the photography’s most wanted list, and can only be described as the tip of the sword when it comes to pushing new boundaries in photography and film making.

Here is a list of the faculty. Click on their names to learn more about the incredible work each of them do.

Corey Rich - Corey Rich Productions

Jen Edney - Edney Adventure Photojournalism

Lucas Gilman - Lucas Gilman Productions

Ryan Taylor - Ryan Taylor Visual

Bo Bridges - Bo Bridges Photography

Brad Smith - WWE

Scott Wilson - Sandbox Motion

Bob Smith - Bob Smith Photos

Dave Black - Dave Black Photography

The staff is what keeps these workshops running seamlessly. They managed to keep everyone happy and motivated throughout some challenging weather and kept a smile on everyone’s faces.

Chris Steppig - Workshop Director, who puts these workshops together, keeps everyone in check and is not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Steven Jacobs - Marketing and Social Media, who wears more hats than I think anyone realizes and has turned into a great filmmaker himself.

Julio Aguilar - Assistant and Drone Photographer, who works tirelessly both day and night to make sure everything is set up right for each shoot.

Matt Stirn - Assistant and local guide, who is an incredibly talented photographer as well as an archaeologist.

Lastly these workshops would not be possible without workshop founder Rich Clarkson. Rich has dedicated his life to fostering the education of the next generation of photographers. I know he has touched my life as well as so many others in the photographer community.

This Adventure workshop exceeded all my wildest expectations and I highly recommend to any photographer that loves being in the great outdoors to sign up for this workshop next year. You will not be disappointed.

Learn more about this and other great workshops from the Summit Series of Photography Workshops by visiting there website at: https://www.photographyatthesummit.com/workshops/

Group photo by: Julio Aguilar

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