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heyclickadee · 6 days ago

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I know I’ve said this before, I just can’t remember if it was on here or on discord and I don’t feel like scrolling back through my posts, so: We got the full and complete journey

of the specific shipment of spice

that the Martez sisters were carrying around in season seven of The Clone Wars

continued over into The Bad Batch. Just because.

I really don’t think that we’re leaving Rex, Echo, the clones as a whole, or even Crosshair, Wrecker (or, yes, Tech) dangling forever.

#Rex and Echo I think have the most clearly unfinished bits #but I’m including Wrecker and Crosshair here because #they’ve got unresolved arcs #Crosshair in particular demonstrated that even though he grew over the course of season three #he hasn’t really moved past thinking he deserves to more or less be tortured to death #he hasn’t really faced his problem #and there’s no indication he’s dealt with his trauma #and we don’t see him or wrecker in the epilogue so we don’t know if they’re even okay #are they thriving or are they (mostly Crosshair) barely functioning?#because honestly I could see Wrecker just crashing out now that the immediate threat of #the immediate threat of the empire being after his little sister is gone #and he’s got nothing to distract him #and of course I will always argue that Tech has an unfinished arc and is on his way back #because the fall doesn’t work with his arc unless it’s a fakeout #and that mountain of hinting and foreshadowing didn’t cease to exist at the end of the show (in fact it just keeps hinting)#Star Wars is an open canon and while I prefer self-contained shows #TBB just ain’t one of them #clone wars season seven wasn’t #and I do not think the Maul show will be #really I think what we’re looking at is a situation where the largest unit of storytelling is this whole era of animated shows #with a larger overarching story and nested/interconnected arcs linking between individual shows and their POV shifts #I’ve absolutely given up trying to predict the timing of when things will happen because I’m always wrong about that #(I was wrong about the timing of crosshair’s redemption arc too—I thought he was going to be back with the batch #a full season and a half before he finally got there)#but I still think we’re seeing how Rex ends up in Seelos and where Echo ends up and that Tech’s alive etc #we’re just not there yet #also I want to add that if this is the case #then marketing these things as standalone was a huge self-inflicted error on the part of the marketing team #we could have used the ‘seeing how these arcs all come together/where it’s going’ talk from the animation panel at celebration #to start with

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