You Wanna Know The Things That Just Stabbed Me Right In The Heart During The Last Three Minutes Of Bad

You wanna know the things that just stabbed me right in the heart during the last three minutes of Bad Batch 3x04?

The fact that we saw Wrecker full-on sprint to meet Omega.

The fact that Wrecker was crying.

The fact that Hunter practically ran down the steps.

The fact that Hunter knelt down and held out his arms for her, and it's just such an open and vulnerable moment for Hunter (especially compared to TCW and early TBB season 1 Hunter).

The fact that both Hunter and Wrecker have a moment where they squeeze Omega a little harder during their hugs (I'm not kidding, if you look closely you can see them do it).

The fact that Omega squeezed Hunter harder when he said, "We never stopped looking for you," because as a girl who had an extremely isolated childhood, that is probably her deepest fear. That after finally finding a family where she fits in, she would lose it and never see them again. And Hunter reassuring that they kept looking for her probably soothed some major insecurities and fears of hers.

“a starry night”

the bad batch season 3 episode 4

THAT reunion based on vincent van gogh’s work

Anidala fix-it fics are soothing and all but also so incredibly OOC

Crosshair and Hunter being so in tune that they can accurately figure out each other’s most deeply held regrets without having a single real conversation and then exclusively using that knowledge to make each other angry is the realest thing this whole episode

thinking about Obi-Wan and Cody's last scene together in revenge of the sith but specifically the NOVELIZATION and how Cody flirted with Obi-Wan in a way that made Obi-Wan Kenobi 'Master of Sass and Trolling', the FAMED Negotiator blush and duck his head!!! and wondering if perhaps the fact that this was potentially their last battle and that Obi-Wan had just killed Grievous and they all could practically FEEL the end of the war brushing against their fingertips had given Cody that spike of courage, hope, peace that had made him pursue the drumming of maybe maybe maybe to his heartbeat that led to Obi-Wan blushing so profoundly he tried to fucking laugh it off and then zoooooomed tf out of there on bogas back.

I get the feeling that Crosshair didn't want to reduce what happened to him as simply 'shooting a superior', he wanted to tell Hunter about Mayday, but in that moment, Hunter was just looking for ways to get to him, and he wasn't going to give him more ammo to throw at him.

I like the way this episode showed them both hurting, both blaming themselves and each other, both throwing insults, anything to avoid having to face everything that happened. But when it came to it, when they were in danger, they both did whatever they needed to keep each other safe, and those actions speak so much of how they both truly feel. Because they are brothers, and brothers fight, and argue, and throw insults they don't mean, but when one is in danger, they fight tooth and nail to save them, regardless of the odds.