MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE BAD BATCH EP. 02

MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE BAD BATCH EP. 02

So I’m getting really strong Kanan/Ezra vibes from Hunter and Omega. I know, its obvious that he’s going to take on a brother/father role for her but it was really apparent to me in EP. 02

Here’s a list of similarities:

A group (Ghost Crew/TBB) finds a parentless kid (Ezra/Omega) on the kid’s home planet (Lothal/Kamino) and decides to take them in

The male leader of the group (Kanan/Hunter) takes on a brother/father role for the kid

It’s kinda obvious that the leader is supposed to train the kid and take care of them

The leader is insecure about their ability to take take care of the kid because they don’t have much experience in that field and they never finished/never knew that training/care

Thinking that the kid will be better off with someone else that does have experience (Luminara/the Lawquanes), they attempt to arrange a hand-off

The hand-off doesn’t pan out but the kid didn’t want that anyways

A female twi’lek (Hera/Suu [I know, I know, very specific]) tells the leader that he needs to get over himself and just take care of the kid

The leader and the kid have a heart-to-heart where the kid admits wanting to be taken care of by the leader

This starts the great bond between the leader and the kid

BONUS:

This is also similar to Din Djarin/Grogu’s dynamic as well, but it is more similar to Kanan/Ezra’s. Din received guidance from the Armorer, who told him to take Grogu to his people, which Din did successfully. In a way, it’s kinda backwards but it’s still reminiscent.

I know a lot of people don’t like Lux Bonteri, and everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I honestly don’t think he’s that bad.

If you’d like to read my justifications, they’re down below :)

Just to be fair, this is just about everything canon about Lux from The Clone Wars:

His mother, Mina Bonteri was a senator in the Separatist Senate. From this, we know he was basically taught that the Separatists were the “good guys” in the Clone War.

We are told that his father was killed by Republic forces during the war, which would further turn Lux against the Republic.

When he first meets Ahsoka, he admits that he was told as a child that the Jedi were good but he isn’t sure about that anymore. Despite seemingly blaming Jedi for the war, he doesn’t hold that against Ahsoka specifically, and even makes an attempt to befriend her in a weird teenage boy way.

Count Dooku had his mother assassinated, leaving Lux as an orphaned teenager. This would also make him question his siding with the Separatists.

To avenge his mother, he wants to kill Count Dooku, despite knowing that it’s basically a s**cide mission.

He knows he can’t do it himself so he enlists the help of Death Watch, a powerful terrorist group that isn’t afraid to kill powerful people like Sith Lords and who claim to support him.

Ahsoka gets dragged into his scheme on accident after saving him. He never intended for her to get caught up in his mess and probably hoped she’d stay unconscious on the ship.

When creating their cover story for Ahsoka suddenly being there, he follows along with her plan. When Bo-Katan grabs Ahsoka’s face and then slaps her ass, you can see him widen his eyes and try to recover without looking suspicious. Immediately after Bo-Katan slaps Ahsoka, he steps protectively in front of her to prevent an escalation that would break their cover. To make it seem more believable, he says that Ahsoka “serves her purpose,” which seems demeaning, but the goal is to make Bo-Katan believe that Ahsoka is unimportant and to focus on him and his plan.

To help maintain their cover story, he kisses her only because he needed a quick way to get her to shut up about the Death Watch being murderers and to make Pre Vizsla uncomfortable at the same time.

They help each other escape, and at the end of the arc it’s pretty clear that they have bonded quite a bit and even perhaps formed an attachment. However, they have to split ways. Ahsoka has to follow the Jedi Code and Lux needed to hide from Dooku.

The next time we see Lux, he’s helping rebels on his home planet of Onderon fight against the Separatists. This shows that he’s fully against the Separatists and is siding with the Republic.

He’s dating Steela Gererra, but can you blame him? Ahsoka couldn’t have a relationship with him and Steela shared a lot in common with him. At some point he was going to move on. Because he never had a reason to stop loving Ahsoka, he was inconveniently in love with both of them at the same time when he saw Ahsoka again and his feelings resurfaced. Later in the arc, Steela drops to her death after Ahsoka unintentionally drops her off of a cliff after being shot in the shoulder by a tank. He was heartbroken.

At Steela’s funeral, Lux tells Ahsoka that he’s going to become the Senator of Onderon and he plans for Onderon to join the Galactic Senate of the Republic. Now, he’s fully sided with the Republic and has made the decision for his entire planet.

In summary:

Lux lost his mother, his father, and his girlfriend to the Clone War all before he was even an adult. (He probably thought he lost Ahsoka too after the Jedi Purge)

His beliefs made a complete 180° in the direction of the Republic, showing growth, despite his bad history with both sides.

Most of the “mistreatment” towards Ahsoka isn’t that bad when you put it in perspective. (Some of it is questionable and/or embarrassing but still)

Lux Bonteri is not a bad character!

I really don’t think he deserves the hate most people immediately serve him...

When Matt Lanter said we would see animated Anakin again, did he mean this💀

We better get more than literally 1 second😭

The Bad Batch. 💪

I really wish Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) was still canon...

Anakin just wanted to eat some bugs🥲

Protective fathers :)