Regarding Scorch. A tangentā¦
I did not enjoy that ending for Scorch. I didnāt understand the use of Scorch to begin with, but I kept it to myself, because I foolishly wanted to believe it would/could make sense somehow.
But that didnāt happen! So itās time for a fixit; a look into what (I think) it would take for it to make sense š
For starters, I donāt think it was a mistake to use a member of the Delta Squad; they are often regarded as a precursor to The Bad Batch, so we know theyāre extremely capable commandos. Even more deadly than Arc troopers. It could have easily been a great parallel between the two special operations teams.
Having said that, if it had been up to me, I would have used Sev instead of Scorch; reason being, (aside from Scorch canonically having a big personality that was completely absent from his tbb portrayal) Sev went missing on Kashyyyk at around about the same time order 66 was given. Which begs the other question; if youāre going to use Scorch, where was the rest of Delta Squad?
When Sev went missing, the rest of Delta Squad wanted to go back for him, but they were ordered to leave him behind. In all the confusion that was order 66, it would have been a convenient time for the Tantiss scientists to round up as many clones as possible, from as many varied backgrounds as possible. I know that sounds like a stretch, but itās the fact that the rest of Delta Squad was ordered to leave Sev behind thatās suspicious to me (when considering what Palpatineās men were secretly doing to clones). A member of the famous Delta Squad would be a big get for them.
Moreover, it was something Crosshair said that stuck with me: when he told the rest of The Batch about the experiments being conducted on Tantiss, and the CX program, he said he couldnāt be brainwashed because heās defective. But then why did they keep trying? Why did they keep torturing him? Especially after they got ahold of Omega the first time, why not kill Crosshair at that point, if he really was useless to them?
My theory is, the stronger the victim, the longer it takes to fully break them down. I could imagine Sev would hold out longer than the regs, and depending on how thorough they had to be, it would also explain why this once super-badass was reduced down to (a completely incompetent) Henchmen #1.
Iāve seen it mentioned that the light behind Scorchās helmet didnāt go out when he fell, so he couldāve survived; Iām a little skeptical tbh, but sure, Iāll allow it. Go ahead and give The Bad Batch their happy ending (they deserve it!) but then (if we continue to say it was Sev and not Scorch), they could have given us a post-credit scene, or a May The Fourth/Revenge Of The Fifth teaser of the rest of Delta Squad finding Sev. Delta Squad is very self-contained, and isolated, even more than TBB, which would explain why it has taken them so much longer to find their missing brother; they donāt have the same resources TBB has (Rex, mostly).
So many people have asked āwhy include Scorch at all?ā āThat wasnāt Scorch!ā āIt literally couldāve been anyone else!ā And I agree! I think with more background, a lot more questions couldāve been answered in a way that actually made sense, for both The Bad Batch, and Delta Squad, and made the fans happy in the process!
Not to mention maybe we couldāve gotten another Republic Commando game, or even a spin off series for Delta Squad??
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