The greatest unanswered question remains, "Why the fuck did I subject myself to TBB S2?"
I unfortunately do not even mean that in a, "Wow this broke me forever Star Wars is so tragic" kind of way, I just mean every narrative decision made from start to finish was cheap and offensive (ableist, among other things) and reminds me of that particular wave of indie movies that were popular a few years back where the douchiest most unsatisfying endings possible were the only goal.
I'm not even categorically against unsatisfying endings when there's a coherent and worthwhile theme being delivered. Sadly TBB is not thematically coherent, nor is Bury Your Autists a worthwhile theme.
In light of all this, what was the fucking point of Tech's romance with Phee? Just to make his death an even more cheap shot than it was? What was the point of exploring his neurodivergence just to have him die the way so many autistic people live- putting the group above themselves at all cost? Why bother with the thematic conflict outlined in the interactions between Hunter and Echo if ultimately the Batch just gets (and clones as a whole get) the worst of both worlds either way?
In general I'm really tired of Disney Star Wars not being able to decide on an audience and stick with it. You can't be a kids' show and an edgelord show and a show about family and whatever else TBB is going for all in one. I'm less annoyed that it's not for me and more that there's nobody it's actually FOR, because Disney execs are too greedy to settle for appealing to any consistent sense of a target audience at all.
This is, of course, par for the course of whatever stage of capitalism we're in, and while it may not be killing people the way social policies that would make Ayn Rand wet and our hostile built environments are, it stands as yet another example that the profit motive is ultimately not for humans.
Yes I am this salty over a kids' show. And you should be too.
