#till filony decides it’s time to hurt us again

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TBB s3 Finale Thoughts!!

Fair warning, this one is very long

I am fear

Why is this intro music

What is this intro music

Help

“The base is 5 Klicks away. Can you make it?”

Jesus Christ what a scary question right from the start

Is Wrecker gonna…?

I’m not gonna say it

Jesus

This convo between Hemlock and Rampart was amazing

Two villains, being villainy together

Honestly the writers knew what they were doing

Honestly, I love that Emerie is owning up to her mistakes?

is she gonna 99 herself?

Jeez Jennifer’s Tweet really threw me

ALSO OMEGA GIRLBOSSING

LETS GOO

Oh shit, cross wiring a droid??

This is Tech’s training huh??

🥹🥹🥹🥹

he’d be so proud

EVA STRAPPED RHE PLUSHIE TO HER BACK IM CRYING

gaaaaaahh Omega is so grown up

I love her

AHHHHGH IM SOSCARED FOR WRECKER??

JEN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

WAIT SO

the kids just escaped

and now Echo is going to save the kids

NO

Ugh this can’t end well

This is

hhhhhhhh

I KNEW IT

omega is freeing the Zillo

ofc she is!!

love!!

Why does Guy With Googles seem like foreshadowing?

Where’s Tech Jen?

Where’d you put him?

Honestly the entire Zillo thing is giving Ahsoka freeing Maul

Echo realising she freed the Zillo

“How’d you know that?” “Because it’s exactly what I’d do.”

BESTIE THE WAY I SCREAMED

Crosshairs hand tremor getting worse literally has me in shambles

I am so scared for him

Actually for all of them

HHHHHHHHHH

Oh so batcher is alive

AAAHHHHH

OKAY

FIRST. OF. ALL.

Cross changing the plan because of Wreckers injury???

AHHHHGH THAT IS SO SWEET HELP???

SECONDLY

HIM OFFERING TI INFILTRATE THE BASE HIMSELF???

SCARY!!!

LASTLY

“You two, head to the communications array and try to contact Rex.”

I AM JUMPING AND SCREAMING WITH JOY

I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS

REX

YEA

BRING REX BACK

YEASSSSS!!!!

Oh I really shoulda waited this out

Are they not bringing Rex back?

Either waY THAG LINE??

“Clone Force 99 died with Tech.”

The entire conversation about Omega needing the others more than him?

“If we all go in, we won’t all make it out.”

AHHHHHH

NOOOoo

he’s right tho

shiiiiit

“Echo’s handiwork? Or Omega’s?” in sync: “Omega.” I AM SCREAMING

I think Hemcock realised that the Zillo was an intentional distraction

But he still has to make a move

And that made him angry

Love it

Our girl pissed him off

OH

OHHHH

THATS TECH

THERE HE IS

Okay so he wasn’t the operative we expected

BUT COME ONE

the chamber?? Reminds me of Echos on Skako

And the Helmet is different than all the others

And the back of the head like yea

That’s Tech!!!

Especially because Hemlock getting him now makes so much sense

He needs to figure out how to stop the batch, so why not use a former squad member? And reunite CLONE FORCE 99

Echo: sees loads of destruction

Echo: omega was here

“We need to fall back.”

And call Rex

Call Rex

And don’t 99 yourself

Cross

Don’t

“You should be more careful with your shooting hand.”

No.

No way.

No.

They didn’t

They couldn’t have

This actually has me wanting to cry wtf

Fuck, the batch being careened off unconscious in front of Echo is,,, very concerning

Echo has to call Rex now right

Gah poor guy must feel very unsettled

Ahhhh and the rest of the batch

hhhhhh

helpppp

“Causing chaos Havoc 5?”

AHHHHHH

he is so dad coded actually

🥹🥹🥹🥹

sweetness

I needed that

uuuughhh them splitting up so that the kids are safe

So sweet

But also

This is gonna be hard for them alone

Ah fuck

Shiiiiit

He’s trying to winter soldier them

Noooooo

“We’ll survive. But you won’t.”

In that defeated voice?

I’m crying

AND HOW DARE HEMLOCK TALK ABT TECH RHAT WAY

FUCK, THIS EPISODE

Ugh Echo’s speech

The clones banding together

I’m crying

Jesus I love this

Echo taking charge that way

Natural leader fr

I am in love <3

Fuck, Rampart is gonna fuck something up huh

He’s gonna ruin it for them isn’t he

Oh shit Tarkin is coming?

Oh no

GOD THE WAY I LOVE THE CLONES ALL RISING UP TOGETHER

yo the way that “training room” is built is actually wild

gah omega freeing them herself is v scary to me

sounds like something abt to go wrong

yup

shit

fuck

HEMLOCK YOU BITCH

NO NOT THE GAS

NO

FUCK

Oh good they finally got rid of rampart

slightly bummed about Nala Sue though, even tho she was mostly not that great

She really stepped up

Wrecker hulking out like that

I love it!!!

LETS GOOOO

“Get the kid.”

WRECKER YOU MACHINE

I LOVE

okay so maybe none of the operatives are tech

at least I hope so bc the batch is mowing them down

Also

Crosshairs hand rlly is gone

Fuck

Shiiiiiiit

How could they do this to him

hhhhhhh

ugh the fact that it’s raining too

The way Echo is panting

Poor baby is so tired

Wrecker too, they’re barely holding on

The fact that Crosshair is shooting with his other hand and still hitting target

Can’t keep him down

But still bro wtf

“They won’t risk hurting you.”

“Neither will you. You need me alive.”

God the writing is so good

ALSO SCORCH???

POOR GUY NOOOOO

we got wet hair hunter tho😏🥲

“Shoot the binders.”

“They’re too close.”

“She knows what to do. Wait on her, then take the shot.”

WOW

THE WRITING

THE

WRITING

THE ANIMATION

THE ACTION

THIS IS LITERALLY SO FUCKING GOOD WHAT

GOD SHE SAW CROSS’S HAND

the way she immediately began crying and hugged him

And then hunter joining in

I AM NOT OKAY

(the writingggggg)

(hhhhhhhaaaaaaaa)

Oh thank fuck they’re back on Pabu

Echo inviting Emerie back to Pantora

that’s actually so sweet

And the convo about them never having had a childhood? Gah this hurts my soul

that shot of them all sitting together <3

okay so full disclosure I didn’t type for most of the last scene because I was so gagged

ADULT OMEGA?

OLD HIPPIE MAN HUNTER??

Omega joining the rebellion as a pilot

and Tech’s goggles on her dash

Okay so I know I was lobbying hard for Rex showing up, but at some point I got why he didn’t. This was about the batch. It was about the poetry of them stepping up into their natural roles and solving the problem themselves and I loved that.

Also, as most of you know, I was very strongly pro team Tech is alive and I don’t know how to feel now that we didn’t get a reveal. I’m thinking if we get another show maybe he might still come back but my optimism is a little,,, depleted.

Also I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that Tarkin reverts funds from Necromancer to Stardust AKA the Death Star. Like yeah, let’s forget about eternal life and focus on big floaty ball.

I just thought that was funny.

Also Crosshair saying that clone force 99 died with Tech. In a way that’s very true. They weren’t the same squad after that and they never will be. After that loss something was kicked loose in Hunter, I think. He was more sure than ever that he wanted to be a family before he wanted to be a squad. And in the end that’s what they got. There’s a bitter sweet poetic beauty in that I think.

Ugh honestly I think I need to sit in this for a while and process it because I’m a little,,, idk it was a lot. Like it was great but it was so much yanno? I’m kinda sad that the gap between Rex forming the rebellion and leaving the fight wasn’t filled yet, but I’m hopeful we get another show or short or something that fills it still, because honestly he’s earned it. I’d also like to see where Echo ends up fr

Idk I’m all over the place. I will repeat, again, that the writing was amazing. The dialogue, the action, the everything really. It was incredible.

I’m just gonna sit in that a while. Yeah. Hope y’all made it through and thanks for always reading all this. Hope I get a chance to do this again one day. Love you, bad batch fandom. We’re not going anywhere <3

xo, phi