Hahaha1d0that - (She/Her) 19

Just thinking about how they were essentially promoted and demoted within a few days

I respect your opinion and I agree, but I just like to think that twi-lek women in Star Wars are starting to be less objectified... Hera, Xi’an, and now Suu are being dressed in more practical clothing and are depicted as capable women and I think it’s nice...

Twi-lek women have been so objectified by Star Wars creators in the past, by both Dave Filoni and George Lucas. In the past, they were mostly there to look at in a sexual manner for the adults watching what is supposed to be a franchise for kids. They were shown as slaves, servants, and property. Even Aayla Secura was dressed in a revealing crop top and leggings (not to mention trying to design her in TCW to have big boobs, a small waist, defined abs, and wide hips simultaneously).

I think this might be a sign of progress...

Sometimes as a grown woman you wanna dress like a firecracker and sometimes you don’t. She can target shoot your ear off the side of your head in either of these outfits, so I don’t wanna hear anymore about how they put Suu in “real clothes” this time around.

I was rewatching the lightsaber duel between Sabine Wren and Gar Saxon...and I think Sabine may be Force sensitive...

If you watch the scene, you can hear the Force Suite a couple of times during the duel in addition to Sabine’s theme.

It plays when she’s dodging Saxon’s particularly fast and hard swings and then blocks his hit with Ezra’s lightsaber, and then when she decides to let Saxon live after she wins. It actually plays as she says “That may be the Mandalorian way, but it’s not my way” as she proceeds to do the most Jedi thing ever by letting her enemy live.

Not to mention during the Trial of the Darksaber when she beat Kanan in a mock duel. Did he let her win? Maybe. Was he distracted because he was paying more attention to her words rather than her actions? Possibly. Was it harder for him to keep up because he was distracted on top of being blind? Not likely, but possible. I think she genuinely won because Kanan seemed kinda shocked and overwhelmed.

When he was talking with Hera before the duel about why they were using wooden sticks instead of the real deal, and Hera thought it was because Sabine couldn’t use the Force, Kanan said “the Force resides in all living things, but you have to be open to it. Sabine is blocked.” Maybe, when she was being so open about her past and letting her feelings guide her, she because attuned to the Force, and was able to beat Kanan. Maybe that’s why he was shocked and overwhelmed.

I also think it’s interesting how often Ezra lets Sabine use his lightsaber. He clearly trusts her and her ability to use it. When he decided to give in to Thrawn’s demands in the Rebels finale, he gave his lightsaber to Chopper, who then gave it to Sabine when they were escaping the Imperial Dome. Sabine had Ezra’s lightsaber in her possession throughout the time he was missing. Maybe Chopper gave it to her because he recorded Ezra’s message to her and the rest of the Ghost Crew and he knew what Ezra meant by “I’m counting on you.” Maybe Ezra trusts her to find him with the Force. He wanted Ahsoka to find him, but did he know that they would be teaming up to find him together? Probably not...

In the Rebels finale epilogue, when Sabine is riding her speeder from the communications tower to her meeting spot with Ahsoka, two Loth Wolves follow her for a short time before letting her go on. Kanan had previously said that they were very attuned to the Force as beings, which is why I think the wolves following her is significant.

Additionally, when Sabine is walking towards Ahsoka, the Force Suite plays again. Whether that’s because Ahsoka is there or not is debatable. However, I think it symbolizes and foreshadows how Sabine and Ahsoka are going to find Ezra using the Force. It plays as Sabine is talking about her personal mission to find Ezra.

It is also interesting how Sabine is House Vizsla, meaning she is descended from Tarre Vizsla, the only known Mandalorian Jedi. Sure, many Mandalorians are House Vizsla, but I think Sabine is different. There is genuine evidence that points to her being force sensitive. Perhaps that’s why the Darksaber found its way to her. If she was the only other force sensitive Mandalorian in Tarre Vizsla’s line, then it should rightfully belong to her and she should be his true successor. That might be why Bo-Katan lost the Darksaber after Rebels and then failed to earn it in the Mandalorian season 2 finale. If it is meant for Sabine, then it might try to make its way back to her via Din Djarin (and maybe it chose him because he has no desire to become the Mand’alor or rule Mandalore).

I really do think she’s force sensitive and I hope it’s shown in the Ahsoka series. Thank you for reading if you’ve come this far. I’d love additional thoughts/feedback! :)

So, Crosshair’s CT number is CT-9904. I guess it means that the other members of the Bad Batch’s CT numbers start with 99. If they were born with those specific CT numbers, they didn’t name themselves after 99, the defective maintenance clone. The Kaminoans would never have made their CT numbers based on one defective clone so they’re clone force 99 by chance, not to honor 99 and his sacrifice... :(

WAIT I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING—

What if 99 was their fifth batch mate?😭

He could have been CT-9900, which is 99 for short. He probably never interacted with other clones that would have given him a nickname, so it was probably just his condensed CT number.

If the Kaminoans were messing around with Jango’s genes to create mutated clones with enhanced abilities, then not all of them were gonna be successful, right? Maybe 99’s extremely fast aging was a result of the mutation, and then he was deemed useless by the Kaminoans and put on maintenance duty.

Clones were always made in batches of 5. The rest of his batch were capable soldiers so they trained and graduated without him...leaving him alone...

NOW IM SAD

Parallel in The Bad Batch 1x03

Crosshair in The Clone Wars: “If your plans are so good, why did Commander Cody have to call us in?”

ES-01 in The Bad Batch: “If [clones] are so efficient, how come the Empire’s scouting soldiers like us?”

And then Crosshair gets pissed, like yes, you were this big of a dick too😭