Lauryn

23 | This blog is just a mess, so im sorry. Currently on a Star Wars kick and need more content so using this again for the first time in months lol

[221bshrlocked]

Everything's changing... It is a fundamental part of life. ...but we have to adapt and move on. Even though it can be difficult to understand, we must carry on. I may process moments and thoughts differently, but it does not mean that I feel any less than you.

We have to respect his decision.

[bitzsit]

Hemlock doesn't get why hunter is so paternal but the Jango genes require clones to adopt every unattended child in sight.

[imperialcadetdaye]

Just some things I can’t seem to shake from the finale:

Omega’s anguished screams as she watched Tech fall. Wrecker having to hold her back.

Hunter’s look of exhaustion and feeling like he failed when Hemlock tossed him Tech’s glasses.

Tech’s shattered glasses.

The way Hunter stared at Hemlock’s ship in horror as they took off with his daughter, the one Tech died trying to protect along with the rest of the batch.

Hunter’s look of pure adrenaline and determination announcing that he would never stop until he finds Omega.

Knowing that Hunter feels like he failed everyone and he’s a horrible leader.

Somebody pay for my therapy I’m not okay right now. This finale shook me to my core. Literally.

[barissoffee]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH | 2.16 PLAN 99

[eriexplosion]

The funniest thing season one did was have Cut immediately all worried like Where's Crosshair when he notices they're down a person and then several episodes later Rex meets with the batch, sees that they clearly are missing someone, and literally does not comment at ALL. Nothing to say whatsoever. Man is still mad about the Echo Rescue Incident I see.

[eclec-tech]

Please reblog if you're here for the story.

I watch The Bad Batch as an exploration of the beginning of the Empire from the perspective of a group of fugitives trying to get by in a galaxy that doesn't always make sense.

I'm here for their story.

I'm here for WHATEVER the writers, artists, and composers give us in their own good time. I want the plot to be given to me slowly. I want a character's redemption or further fall to have so much meat to it that I sit back and think, "Wow. They went through hell to get here."

I want to find out what makes the characters tick one morsel at a time, and I'm NOT going to complain about where the writers take them if it's not what I envisioned for them because it's the story.

Honestly, I'm finding this fandom to be a tedious place lately. A lot of people only seem to enjoy the show if they are given exactly what they want by the writers and the moment the show deviates from that, they complain.

I'm here for the story. Please reblog this or leave me a comment if you are too because I want to surround myself with other fans who are here for the Batch's story in whatever direction it takes us.

[chaosjedimasterk]

It might an unpopular opinion but I’m chill if they throw romance into Star Wars. I’ve seen a lot of dislike of the Tech and Phee flirting lately and while I can understand not being interested in it, I think it’s trying to speak to a place we’ve seen very little of. There’s like a whole rant under the cut here about my thoughts on the season so far. I’m cool if you have different opinions I’m just throwing these into the void.

I also preface this with I am honestly pretty chill about the media I consume and general have liked most of everything Star Wars puts out. I’m here for fun and vibes.

This whole season of the Bad Batch is trying to explore who these men are without the Republic. Who they are without being soldiers. Who they are as their own men, in their own right. What choices are they going to make for themselves and Omega. What does life look like for a tool of a governing body that exists no more?

Which like, is often times what real life soldiers have to do when they’re no longer useful to their government. Like the clones being decommissioned - super realistic to how the US government treats its vets. In my opinion at least. They care about you until you’re not useful. Who are you then if you’re not a soldier?

Additionally this last episode showed us the literal foundation of Star Wars which is hope, community, and light existing in darkness. Sure shit is bleak, but if we come together and WORK together, it’s so much better than alone. The batch is used to being their own squad. They didn’t have a whole battalion like the 501st or the 212th. They were 4 to 5 dudes. They need to learn how important community is to fighting fascism . Each way someone learns is different, hunter is learning who he is through being a father figure, Crosshair is being thrown through the absolute ringer to learn this lesson, and maybe Techs is being a partner and learning nuanced social interactions? Wrecker i haven’t pinned but he’s very much protect my brothers and protect my sister.

While Phee had gotten kinda stereotypical pirate treatment, she’s one of the first black characters we’ve gotten who hasnt moved through some sort of extremest route. Yes she’s a pirate but we are getting to see a relatively soft black woman on screen. Who is warm, and kind and funny and very laid back. Who is “liberating treasures” and I think that has to speak for something too.

I could be totally wrong about this, but I’m honestly so curious to see where the writers take this show. And how they continue the tech and Phee narrative.

[arcadianmoonshadowjedi]

When you go from this:

(Gif by @bluedaddysgirl)

Confused by the stares because you’re now officially a dad, to this:

(Screenshot by @sketchyjellyfish21)

Being called a father and just fully embracing it! 😭❤️🙌🏽

[flaccid-rats]

Instead of people forcibly making Din Djarin their friend like it’s been for the past two seasons, this season is all about Din Djarin forcibly making Bo-Katan his friend and I think that’s funny as fuck

[darth-memes]

[theobot]

listen my entire thoughts about the new episode are simple:

-i support lesbian right, but more than that, i very much support lesbian wrongs

-bo is at her most emotionally vulnerable of course she's going to join a cult she's in prime cult joining time

-din was sobbing under that helmet

[painthorseblues-deactivated2025]

the vulture and the void. #CROSSHAIRSWEEP was trending yesterday with more tweets than the bad batch tag itself and you know what. deserved

[nateofgreat-deactivated20240626]

I like how “Cody” and “Rex” are the only clones who picked normal names. And everyone else is named after military jargon, derived from their serial number, or after skills of theirs.

One day we need to meet Clone Trooper Bob.

[starqueensthings]

Episode 12 open discussion under the cut 👇🏼 BEWARE SPOILERS.

The loss of Crosshair’s helmet is so significant. The fact that he didn’t even bother to look for it, even more so.

The animators have always used helmets to represent a dichotomy. Pre Order-66, it was a symbol of a soldier’s individualism, as most troopers opted to paint their helmet to their liking; something to make them easily distinguishable from their brothers. Post Order-66, helmet-wear was used to signify the loss of a soldier’s autonomy. Yes, obviously for cranial protection as well (keep the melon safe during battle, you know), but once Order 66 was issued, aside from Batch members, seeing a clone trooper without their helmet on was a very rare sight.

In Season 1 Episode 1, Crosshair opted to keep his helmet on during the flight back to Kamino after Order-66 on Kaller, and through the halls of Tipoca city until they reached their barracks. I think the writers and animators were trying to symbolize that he had lost a large portion of his control.

Through the rest of the first season, Crosshair was largely hidden behind his new imperial helmet; one that was completely lacking resemblance or connection to his past as a member of CF-99. I think his Imp helmet was something that, at least in the beginning, he wore proudly; it was a symbol of his new role, his new rank, his future, his new ideology.

But in The Solitary Clone (S2 E3), after a poignant discussion with Cody, we see Crosshair look at his helmet with implied contempt, regret, and even possibly, repulsion. This was new.

In the first minutes of Season 2 Episode 12, we see him reprimanded by an imperial superior officer for not wearing it, which I found interesting. Keep in mind, Crosshair was also helmet-less when he met with Cody before their mission to Desix. Same scenario: waiting by the ship for a debrief from his commander before leaving for the mission. But this time, but the writers opted to emphasize that his face was exposed.

Now, his helmet is completely gone. In a mission gone sour, it was eaten by an avalanche. And I found it very interesting that Crosshair’s first thought after emerging from the snow, was to find and save Mayday, a reg commander who he’d met only hours previously, and who took all of Crosshair’s imperial ideology and challenged it. He carefully puts Mayday’s helmet back on him, but doesn’t even spare a thought for his own.

In the final minutes of E12, we see Crosshair, and his face in all its glory, shoot his Lieutenant. An angry murder noodle move, yes... but also a desperate, frustrated one.

The presence of Imperial Crosshair feels diminished. The reemergence of Bad Batch Crosshair feels imminent.

*pls note that I used the term “reg” to reference Crosshair’s previous intolerance for regular clones, and was not meant in any derogatory sense*

[amaliia]

[obiwan]

The Mandalorian - The Mines of Mandalore

[gffa]

THAT SOFT LITTLE SIGH BO-KATAN LETS OUT AS THEY’RE BREAKING CLOUD COVER OVER MANDALORE IS DESTROYING ME!!!

The way she looks down at the wreckage of the dome!!!  

The way her gaze flickers around when she says, “It didn’t always look like this.”, girl is trying so hard to keep her protective shell intact!!!

She forces her gaze back forward, tries to present a hard face, but there’s just something there. This is the face of someone who is trying so hard to be cold and empty, but still aches over what happened, is still someone who has had her vulnerable underbelly slashed open again, because this is Mandalore, because this is what’s left of her family, her people, her civilization, her planet, and she was supposed to have protected it, she knew it when it was beautiful, she knows the rich history of Mandalore, and all of that is crashing back down on her and she just can’t take it again, she tries so hard to be cold and unaffected, but you can still see it on her.

And I am IN AGONY about Bo-Katan’s feelings about Mandalore because she knows she fucked up so bad and she’s so angry that anyone else could not just be a shell of their former selves at the loss of their home and so she’s so angry at the entire galaxy, she tries to make Din just go away, she plans on shutting him down for good, the moment he actually needs her, she can’t help herself, she goes running to save him. She can’t help herself with Mandalore, either.  She tries so hard to shut down those feelings, to lock them away in a hard, bitter box, but there’s still a soft center there, one that’s cut open anew when she sees the devastation as they break through that cloud cover, the way she breathes out this almost silent sigh, because she carries this in her heart with her, wherever she goes.