I Would Just Like To Talk About This Scene In TBB Trailer:

I would just like to talk about this scene in TBB trailer:

Omega recognizes the Bad Batch, but they also know that their official name is Clone Force 99 and their individual names, and they say them with admiration. This goes beyond TBB being a ‘legend’ or ‘disgrace’, as clones and/or Kaminoans would see them. They obviously look up to them as role models and heroes.

But it’s TBB’s reaction to Omega recognizing them that really gets me

Hunter is surprised but he seems proud. He’s shocked that Omega knows about them but he’s proud that his squad has become so notorious, and in a positive light at that.

Wrecker is prideful and generally happy. He loves what he does and he’s probably happy that someone other than his squad members appreciates what he does.

Tech is pretty neutral about it. He’s probably not surprised because TBB has a 100% success rate, but he doesn’t seem the boastful or competitive type. He also doesn’t strike me as a ‘kid person’.

Crosshair is suspicious but, as usual, he’s trying to seem as impressive (and intimidating) as possible in front of a new person. He also doesn’t strike me as a ‘kid person’.

But Echo... Echo’s reaction hits me the hardest. He looks at Omega as if he’s anticipating an insult, but it never comes. He was probably expecting for them to skip over him and only acknowledge the other four members. But not only did Omega mention him, but they mentioned him second. I wish we could have seen TBB’s faces when they heard each of their names because I can just imagine Echo’s face lighting up with gratitude and surprise. Later in the trailer, we see Echo holding Omega’s hand and I think this scene is the start to their great platonic relationship.

It seems a little sus😳

I hope Fives is alive somehow. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but when Fives was “dead” and the Coruscant guards were standing in a circle around him, Fox wasn’t standing in the circle. All the guards had their helmets in their hands and all of them were white with red accents but Fox’s was red with white accents. I blamed it on an animating mistake, the editors just copy and pasting the same clone in different positions around the circle or something, but this- this makes me think otherwise.

Imagine the Bad Batch starts with Echo having a nightmare/sweet dreams... And then wakes up, reminiscing Fives and Domino Squad. And then the episode goes on with the squad going back to Kamino, meeting Omega, running away from Kamino, reuniting with Rex and meeting Saw Gerrera happens and yeah, yknow, the whole of the trailer (I'm pretty sure they're from one/two episode but since the premiere is 70 minutes...👀)

And then, at the end of it all, scene cuts to somewhere else

Fives, alive, is watching Echo running in a footage or anywhere a distance from him -- a nod to A Distant Echo if I must

Idk how or why he would be alive, but if I may, I'd connect it to Fox

After Fox shot Fives, he was not seen on-screen again, except in the comics where he was killed by Vader. Maybe, maybe,,, Fox helped Fives fake his death.

Call me crazy, but there's this lil book to be released a week after the premiere -- I Am A Clone Trooper. The cover features Rex, Cody, Fives and Fox, a few troopers with unpainted armour, and the Bad Batch standing in the bg. Why feature Fives? Why feature Fox? I can understand Cody and Rex but those two? And why a week after TBB? TBB are even on the cover. I'm overthinking this but there's a connection somewhere somehow.

Not unlikely Fives is alive, it was even weirder that Fox started staying off-screen afterwards despite the obvious command he has over situations and all.

TLDR: We're gonna get more Commander Fox content and Fives is possibly alive.

Hi everyone! I’m newish to tumblr and this is my first post. I figured some of you would like to see my drawing of Hunter from The Bad Batch!

Hey guys! Not to be that person, but I think Omega from the Bad Batch trailer is a cisgendered female👀

Their voice is higher than the other clone cadets we saw in TCW and their features are a bit more feminine.

I think that’s kinda the point of their character...the whole mutated clone thing...being an outcast, wanting to join their big brothers...😅

Sadly, I don’t think Disney would include an openly LGBTQ+ character in a show like The Bad Batch, nevertheless a clone and (main?) character.

Despite that, I love them already and I can’t wait for May 4th!

I saw a video today explaining how Barriss Offee could play a role in The Bad Batch show and as much as I’d love to find out what happened to her, I think it’s unlikely.

The video said something about Dave Filoni’s plan with her character. Apparently, he was originally going to have her die in TCW season 5 finale arc but decided that he wanted to do more with her character.

TBB is really the only other Star Wars project I can envision Barriss in, but how?

I don’t even think it’s realistic that she’d still be alive. From other episodes, we know that traitors to the republic were executed. Why wouldn’t she have been executed upon her confession?

The last time we see her, Palpatine tells the guards to “take her away,” but where and for what reason? She was a Jedi, so did the council decide her fate? Was she kept as a Jedi prisoner?

Was she imprisoned with the other Republic criminals? If so, why didn’t the Coruscant Guard clones kill her during Order 66? I don’t know how much of pre-Order 66 we’ll see in TBB.

Did Palpatine keep her alive for the sole purpose of making her an inquisitor after his plan was carried out? If he did, Vader would have overseen her training. It wouldn’t make much sense for Vader to let her live when he could so easily kill her for what she did to Ahsoka.

What number inquisitor would she have been? I assume the Grand Inquisitor was 1st and then Trilla is 2nd sister. Wouldnt she be the first one (or second if based on skill, as the grand inquisitor had more experience and helped train the others) if Palpatine kept her alive?

I personally think it’d be cool to see Barriss as an inquisitor, solely for the purpose of seeing her as Vader’s apprentice. Let‘s be honest, she was jealous of Ahsoka. Anakin cared for her, protected her, sacrificed lives and important missions for her, and helped her grow into an amazing person and Jedi. Luminara was very strict, had high expectations, and was pretty detached from Barriss, following the code to the letter. I’m sure Barriss wanted to have Anakin as a master more than anything. I’m convinced that this is why she framed Ahsoka and not someone else. Seeing her as Vader’s apprentice would be bittersweet, at least to me.

Are the clones whitewashed in The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch? Absolutely

I support creators that attempt to correct their skin tone but I feel like I should address the other extreme.

Temuera Morrison, the live-action clone actor, is Māori. They are native to New Zealand. Tem is not white, but he is also not black! He is indigenous to New Zealand.

This is Tem as Jango Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002):

With this reference in mind, both of these images are concerning to me:

Trying to bring justice to obvious whitewashing is one thing, but black-fishing is another. Both are harmful to POC communities and I’d just like creators to be mindful.

Thank you