The Bad Batch 1x06 Spoilers Regarding The Tactical Droid

The Bad Batch 1x06 spoilers regarding the tactical droid⚠️

Umm??? TBB writers??? Why???

What a missed opportunity…

Trace and Rafa were on a mission to retrieve a tactical droid’s head so it could be used against the Empire

The head is shot to PIECES and is LEFT BEHIND

But it’s okay because Hunter gives them the intel on a dAtA sPiKe

When later in Rebels, Ahsoka sends the Ghost Crew on a mission to find Rex

AND THE TACTICAL DROID KEEPS REPEATING REX’S CT NUMBER UNTIL IT LEADS THEM TO HIM

If it’s a well-founded theory that the guy Trace and Rafa were taking to was Rex, WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS WHEN THEY COULD HAVE CONNECTED IT TO REBELS SO BEAUTIFULLY. Rex could have obtained the tactical droid’s head from the Martez sisters, programmed it with his tracker or location on Seelos he knew he was going to be, and then given it to Ahsoka so she could find him if she needed to.

Man, that just sucks

pedro pascal stans post a picture and be like “sugar daddy🥵 dilf 🥵dom😫 spit in my mouth🥺 punch me in the stomach 🥵yes sir im your whore🥵” and its a picture of a man who looks like he would make it to the quarter finals of the great british bakeoff and then lose. 

i think a lightsaber is a really telling choice of weapon for the jedi order in terms of how they practise peacekeeping. a lightsaber is not the tool of an organisation that priorities non-violence. it’s for, ideally, a very controlled amount of violence, as much violence as is necessary (whether it’s a kill or the traditional jedi cutting off a limb) to efficiently end the threat

we overwhelmingly see jedi fight other lightsaber wielders, but realistically on a day-to-day basis, the enemies the jedi face would be ordinary people, not remotely a match for them. it’s up to every jedi in battle to be judge jury and executioner, to decide exactly how much harm they need to do before they do it. in legends the jedi have their own specific terms for the different kind of cuts or ‘marks of contact’, with an understanding of how honourable they are and what enemies they can be applied to, which really demonstrates that they are controlled ethical decisions rather than instinctual or purely defensive

and on a wider scale this is how the jedi order practises their role in the galaxy. that’s the clone wars: rather than refusing to engage in violence, they accept an amount of violence that, in their view, has to be done in order to end the conflict as quickly as possible and achieve the peaceful result. but violence on a galactic scale can’t be so easily controlled. and even where it can be, that gives the jedi a level of galactic power they were never meant to have

I don't know if you noticed it but, right after Wrecker's inhibitor chip gets removed and he doesn't wake up, there's a very interesting tiny moment with Tech.

It's after Tech tells his brothers that they won't know how Wrecker pulled through the surgery until he wakes up. Rex and Hunter look at Wrecker, then each other then walk right past Tech.

Tech watches Rex and then Hunter as they walk past him, and then he rubs at his face with his hand. But he's not adjusting his goggles - since he's rubbing at his face with his hand and not one finger.

I think it is interesting because Tech waits until Rex and Hunter leave before he expresses himself emotively. It is very clear that he's upset and worried about Wrecker and I can't imagine that he isn't feeling some shred of guilt for doubting the deadliness of the chip.

Poor boy's been having a very rough few weeks.

Ugh poor baby 🥺

there’s also a small point where when he’s checking if he’s still alive, his voice kind of wavers for a small second. He probably is exhausted, we never saw him sleep until this episode too which shows how exhausted he and all the batch were which is understandably since most of them spent the day getting yeeted everywhere 😂😫

How did Rex’s pauldron hole go unnoticed by The Bad Batch animators and editors? Isn’t this a big overlook?

(Material from TCW 7x12 and TBB official trailer)

as lizzo says, truth hurts