THEY THREW TECH AWAY LIKE YESTERDAY'S TRASH.
And that's a hill I will willingly die on.
They killed him off for shock value, teased us at the end of S2 with the goggles, PLANNED for CX-2 to be Tech and teased us throughout the entire season...then scrapped it.
My husband is on the spectrum and everything about Tech reminds me of him, even down to the hairline and goggles/glasses. The info dumping, the sarcasm, the little fixations, even issues with communication (like in S1 when that one guy held out his hand for more credits and Tech just looked confused). Any time Tech said something sarcastic or sassy, I'd just look at my husband and go, "Oh hey, it's you!". Watching Tech die was like watching my husband die on screen. It fucking *hurt*
Then to just have his return teased like that...
Plus, during the fight scene with the CX clones, that discarded helmet with the red circle visor...that looked suspiciously like Tech's... Picked up and put on by a CX clone that promptly got killed.
Even my husband, who doesn't keep up with fan theories, was sure that CX-2 was Tech. (We were talking about that last night after we watched the finale, while I'm sitting there sobbing into my hoodie sleeve.)
I know it's not the fault of the writers, they're at the mercy of Disney, but it did sour season 3 for me.
I had a whole thing in the works about why it looked like they just tossed Tech aside, but so many of my faves and moots have written their own so I'm not gonna bother posting mine. @apocalyp-tech-a has a good one.
I'm sad. I'm salty. Watching that before bed cost me a lot of sleep.
Just...why? Why scrap him? That's all I want to know.