As a letter to all Star Wars fans
I dont know if I can properly articulate how much seeing the Bad Batch infurates me, but also fills me with grief.
The studio had the chance to change things, they really did. They had the change to make things beautiful and amazing, to make this second season one of the best things by unwhitewashing the Batch and the rest of the Clones, but they didn’t.
Instead they are baiting fans with a fan favorite by dropping him into the show, into the most controvercial show in the Star Wars series. Instead, they give the batch fancy new armor that likely too way more time and effort into sculpting and rigging with the models. Instead they have done nothing. And it is so indredibly infuriating, and so incredibly sad.Star Wars does not care about People of color, about our people, traditions, or what we look like. We are going to be erased slowly and painfully, they will not listen to us.
To White Fans who love Star Wars: Please understand that POC people are still people and we deserve to be accurately represented in Star Wars.
Hasn’t Star Wars already taken enough from us? Hasn’t star wars already taken our faces, our cultures, our people, and smeared them across their media as villians or replaced our features slowly with eurocentric features?
I am full of grief because I loved Star Wars, I still do to an extent, but it is becoming increasingly clear that I do not belong nor exist to them. I cannot name the last time I saw features like mine in their animated series.
Do not stream the Bad Batch on Disney Plus, do not Pirate The Bad Batch from Disney, do not even watch the series.
