*LONG POST I GUESS*
Here's my 2 cents on the "whitewashing" issue in the Bad Batch that no one asked for. Personally, I don't mind that Clone Force 99 look paler than their regular clone brothers. Why? Because I distinctly remember that old sweet and incredibly brave 'defective' clone called 99 (oh hey that's their team's namesake go figure), the first clone of his kind introduced in TCW; the ‘defective’ kind that is, whatever the hell that means. And if my memory serves me right 99 was, holy shit hold on to your pitchforks & tiki torches guys, 99 was pale. Didn’t make him white though, because if you’re a brown person like me, you would know that brown people come in many shades. You can be light and there’s nothing wrong with that. But I digress. Maybe if you started looking at the defective clones’ paleness as a defect, then shit would make much more sense. 99 was pale and TBB are pale but They! Are! Still! Men! Of! Color! (Matter of fact, where was this outrage when 99 was first introduced? Because right off the bat I saw that he was paler than everybody else, aside from his more obvious physical defects. Ew that sounded ableist as fuck wow. I love 99 and I’m sure he’s in the SW equivalent of heaven.)
That isn’t to say though that there is no whitewashing in TBB. There definitely is. But not in the way you think. Their complexions don’t bother me, not at all. (Remember brown people come in many shades!) The facial features of two certain bad batchers does bother me. You know who I’m talking about right? Our boys Crosshair and Tech. Their facial features are all wrong. Therein lies the ‘whitewashing’. Why couldn’t they have just made them paler but kept the standard Jango face right? Those two don’t look like Mr. Morrison. Like, at all. It’s laughable. And don’t get me started on Echo. He was born brown. Where’s the brown skin, Dave?
Anyway, that pretty much sums up my thoughts on the skin issue in TBB. That being said, I’m not going to let all that get in the way of me enjoying watching the Bad Batch. There are more pressing real world problems that we need to address than a show that’s meant to be an escape from the real world with shitty real world problems that are real. Lmao. Peace. ✌🏾
