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the batch not telling Crosshair about Phee, and by extension, Tech and Phee, sets up for possibly the funniest Techphee reunion ever. i am telling you. Crosshair is going to witness that reunion kiss and he's going to be like "what the HELL is going on here"

Poor Mom does not have the time for this conversation right now, and Omega could’ve sworn that everyone in Star Wars was supposed to lose their hand at one point in time.

I know Echo’s gonna be on some mission like “oh this is what it’s like to be a soldier instead of a mom, I’d forgotten.”

Asking Rex if he ate today and shit and Rex is just like “…what did they do to you, man?”

ok so i wanna talk bout how Echo's reaction to grief is to run away. Like, he ran away from the 501st to the bad batch once he learned that Fives died and now he's run away from the bad batch to Rex/the rebellion since Tech "died"

SPOILERS FOR EP. 7

WE'RE GOOD! HE'S SAFE! i THOUGHT WE'D LOSE HIM BUT WE DIDN'T

TBB episode 6 spoiler alert!

so, remember the traumatic moment where wrecker hears 'good soldiers follow orders'? Yeah. I think that voice was crosshair's. Looks like wrecker's not going to miss his lost brother for much longer...

In response to the bad batch season two finale:

FUCK.

FUCK.

FUUUUUUCK.

why did they have to do that. i dont understand. why does filoni love pain???? why-

Echo helping Crosshair come to terms with limb loss

Echo helping Crosshair adapt to a prosthetic

Echo finally understanding the torture that Crosshair experienced and supporting him to open up now that they just know rather than him having to tell them

Echo and Crosshair bonding over shared trauma

Echo and Crosshair—

No but it's...

the way they naturally fall into eachother's roles when the other isn't there.

the instinctual head-tilt when Crosshair stabilized his rifle on Tech's shoulder, as if they'd done it a thousand times before.

It's the fact that Tech clearly told Phee all about his brother.

It's the sad, fond smile on Crosshair's face when Omega said Tech made her memorize all the plans ("of course he did").

It's the way Tech knew exactly where to look for that mirror.

Echo showing up and the first thing he does is call rampart a snake

You know you live in a dysfunctional family when the two most mature people are the ex-pow with massive amounts of PTSD who keeps running off to do dangerous stuff with his army buddy and a twelve year old girl.

I have a theory that maybe Omega isn't force-sensitive but more like compatible. They said the blood accepted the thing, so maybe Omega isn't force-sensitive but a Template (that can accept midichlorinians) which is why they needed her in season 1

okay thoughts on the premiere because i DID wake up at 2am to watch it but i'm kinda drowsy from the allergy medicine i'm taking so i couldn't really multitask

"you're not a prisoner" emerie says as she come to retrieve omega from an unfurnished room that is also locked from the outside

crosshair's particular brand of self-depreciating concern/encouragement is kinda sweet but mostly concerning. you need a therapist sir

i've been looking through the tbb tag and everyone else is referring to the lurker hound as "batcher" so i'm guessing that's how it was spelled in the subtitles but i heard it as "betcha" and refuse to let that go bc i think it's cute

side note: for hunter's sake i hope he's okay with pets lol

emerie isn't completely terrible. kinda hope she gets a redemption arc

using lula as a symbol of omega's distance from the batch is really clever and also going to tear my heart out

seriously the "i belong here" comment. crosshair wins saddest wettest cat of a man this season

he's also just so tired of everything, which. same

baby regs!!!!

once again we get to watch hunter vibrate out of his corporeal form at the sheer proximity of adoptable children. he has a mission though so he will have to come back and parent them later

i think the kaminoans may have accidentally also enhanced the fett Fatherhood Gene(TM) when they were working on his senses

ngl the design for roland's mom slaps. hope they use it again

WHAT is with crosshair's shaky hand???? are they implying the gas from last season did that? is it from testing? interested to see where it goes though. quite the disadvantage for a literal sniper

from all this talk of genetic m-counts and such, what i'm gathering is that omega isn't necessarily force-sensitive but clones of her could be depending on your views on midichlorians

His eyes seem darker in the dark or when he’s looking at Crosshair, but lighter when he looks at Omega?? Or the sun? I don’t know.

Am I stupid or are hunters eyes a different(?) lighter(?) color this episode??

TBB Season 3: Episode 5 SPOILERS

Crosshair and Hunter be like in the this episode:

I think it's either from the gas that Hemlock created(which is why they both have hand problems) or that it stems from ‘reconditioning’

I immediately thought of physical damage from the tests but I saw that many of you had PTSD in mind which makes just as much sense. I‘d love to hear your thoughts about this.

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Also that thing he did, placing explosives on their ship to create a distraction, is what Hunter did in Episode 1 Season 2

Please forgive me, I'm throwing more ingredients into the CX-2 pot. 😆

We see the operative use explosives (Wrecker), a sniper rifle (Crosshair), a knife (Hunter), and computer gadgets and overall limber acrobatic stealth and intelligence (Tech). One could also say ARC Trooper strategy/possible mechanical limbs (Echo).

Do you think that means anything? Is this operative an amalgamation of all of them? Is Clone Force 99 fighting...themselves? 🤔 Or IF it's Tech, he has just incorporated all of his experience and knowledge to become one single super soldier? Has his DNA been enhanced by Hemlock who surely must have the CF99 genetic material/info leftover from the Kaminoans? What about Omega? She's "part of the squad, too." If we get to a point where CX-2 realizes who he really is and that happens to be Tech - emotion/feeling (Omega).

PS: I know a lot of people associate that knife with Cody, But I think it's more associated with Hunter. *shrug*

MAJOR TBB SEASON 3 EP 11 SPOILERS

So we don't know how TBB are going to get Omega back but in these photos here:

Well, Hunter went emo, but other than that in the last photo on the right we can kinda see a mountain like Tantiss. Obviously, they're not in the Maurader because it blew up so that checks out and they're using the same tactic they've been using since season 1, leech onto a bigger ship to get onto the planet.

It's probably not Tantiss since they do fake-outs all the time, but it will be interesting to see why Hunter lost his paint.

TBB SEASON 3 SPOILERS

So yeah, we don't know how the Bad Batch will end all we know(I think) is that the ending is ‘bittersweet’ (that's what I've heard don't hate me) but I just got a new idea and It could shake out for bad or worse.

Season 1 ended with Omega risking her skin—like everyone else has for her—for someone[AZI-3] that she cares about but ultimately fails due to circumstances(?) and her own weakness, she has to be saved by Crosshair.

Season 2 ended with Omega being helpless once again and unable to save a person she cares about[Tech] due to circumstances.

So that makes every season finale a loss for them. Every. Single. One. And that's discluding Omega’s kidnapping and the fall of Tipoca city.

So will this be the season that breaks the pattern? Or the one that fulfills it?

The hopeful ending is that finally, Omega can break this cycle and not be helpless like she has been in season 3 and finally be able to save the people she cares about.

But this isn't bittersweet. I think the bitter part will be Omega finally being independent and leaving The Batch.

The bad ending I think would be the cycle continuing and Omega is unable to save the person she cares about [Tech?]. I don't think this one will happen(maybe it's just naive hope).

These are just my thoughts, but I'm still worried.

Been wondering this for a while now too. I'm really excited for next week's episode because we don't know what's happening next. Probably more Tantiss content maybe Hunter’s mission with Rampart but ultimately, will CX-2 return? And when will Crosshair finally open up?

I've been thinking about the whole Crosshair and CX-2 situation, and I am beginning to wonder if, should CX-2 prove to be Tech, Crosshair didn't, in fact, know.

In an interview before the premiere, Michelle Ang mentioned Crosshair getting to see forgiveness and real love in the face of a great betrayal. Now, Crosshair's great betrayals are long past. So, is this some NEW betrayal? Is it someone ELSE betraying and being forgiven? CX-Tech fits the later very neatly, however, there might be another option: that Crosshair DOES know CX-2 is Tech, and has been not telling everyone because he blames himself for it happening and is sure they'll all turn him out the second they discover it (Omega included).

I'm of two minds here.

Crosshair didn't know, because Tech was put straight into conversion from medical care, and so Crosshair never saw him.

Crosshair DOES know, and feels black-hole sized guilt about it to the point where he can't bring himself to tell anyone.

In the #2 bucket goes a few things:

We see, repeatedly, that Crosshair isn't saying everything about Tantiss. This is as true for Hunter (the person always mentioning this) as it is for us, as our POV on Tantiss was almost exclusively Omega. Hunter knows Crosshair hasn't told them everything, and isn't going to push him except in specific instances where it really woulda been nice to know.

We do know that the CX conditioning is bad. Like, really bad, bad enough that wiping out your identity--not just the chip but like, you, yourself--is part of it. Or, so Crosshair says (and Tech in S2), though of course the truth of that might be more complex. This is reason enough for him to not talk about things. Except...

When Rex and Howzer explain they have a CX in custody Crosshair is immediately spooked. Then he's even MORE upset when he sees who it is. Or is it because of who it isn't?

If he knew CX-2 was Tech, and sees CX-1, he knows there is only one other CX they're sending after them, and the absolute last thing he would want is for them to have to kill Tech to get away. Or worse, kill the person who used to be Tech and can't be reclaimed (from his POV). Either way, from his POV, it is all bad news that CX-2 is inbound.

And as much as I feel Cross just isn't a hand to hand badass, at the end of his one on one with CX-2, he is clearly giving up. Everything CX-2 is saying is battering him emotionally and dousing the fight in him. Which makes a lot of sense, if he knows it's Tech.

For #1, well, the explanation is much simpler: we, and Omega and Crosshair, never see Tech in CX conditioning because he was in a bacta tank for part of it and then into a pod for the rest. He might have even converted quickly if we're to assume he had amnesia from the fall. (I suspect, should he prove to be CX-2, we won't get an explanation for this.) This actually would give Omega AND Crosshair some severe guilt, realizing when they escaped they left Tech on Tantiss in Hemlock's not-so-stellar care. It makes sense Crosshair would never want to go back--the conditioning sounds pretty awful. But then his reaction to CX-1 is a little less clear; we know there aren't very many CXes at this point, so why is THIS one such a concern to him? He just appears to be a reg. And CX-1's use of 'brother' is also very pointed. Which would make sense if CX-2 is Tech, who would have referred to Crosshair as his brother...

Anyways. We'll see if this pans out. I'd considered this might be the case even as I was like 'are we really doing that', and while I'm not a fan of this plot in the overall, like a cat being dragged outside on a harness for some enrichment I can grudgingly accept it. Mostly.

PLEASE BE THE ZILLO BEAST munching on Hemlock or something..

Bones crunching