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betyoudidntcatchthat · 3 days

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i don’t like this i don’t like this i don’t like this

solely because i remember all too well what happened last time when fives looked like that and i just…

I'm not even going to caption this.

Yeah that's it that's the post

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 3 days

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they’re just reminding us why HE’S the ARC trooper

Echo is back and now things are getting done

#the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #tbb #the bad batch #tbb echo #arc trooper echo #echo bad batch #bad batch #echo tbb #the bad batch echo #echo

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 17 days

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Evolution of hugs between Omega and Echo

Echo being surprise and needing a moment to hugs Omega back.

Echo been more ready this time and have his arms open to welcome her.

He dropping on one knee, arms open and ready to hug back Omega.

#echo #arc trooper echo #tbb echo #omega #tbb omega #tbb spoilers #star wars #the bad batch #bad batch

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 22 days

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tried explaining star wars fandom to my dad and settled on the simile that sw is too big and fucked up to know everything and you sort of have to choose a major like mando lore studies or jedi lineage trees and then we all come together but do not get along just like real academia. anyway what’s ur major

#majoring in the clone wars era #double minor in the politics of the fall of the republic and rise of the empire #and clone trooper culture #star wars

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 30 days

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Ok can I just talk about all the parallels between Tech and this assassin clone (I don’t know what to call him but you all know who I’m talking about)

The biggest one to me is “You had your chance to join us…you chose the wrong side” maybe this isn’t about “us” as in an assassin clone but “us” as in the bad batch; Tech died on a mission to find out more about where Crosshair was and maybe in his reconditioning process he channels that into hatred and blames Crosshair for all that’s happened; maybe it is his way of grieving the fact that Crosshair is now with them again and he (Tech) cannot be

The limp: when the assassin clone walls, he subtly favors a leg in extraction (which could be from the fact that he was buried in the beginning of the episode) but it could be a nod to when Tech broke his femur

He is very matter-of-fact and official when arguing which is a very Tech things to do (aka “they are both” when wolffe says the dead clones are clones and not insurgents) (aka “the girl IS alive”) etc. and Tech would always interrupt to clarify and “technically…” (I mean his name IS tech..)

He doesn’t care much for orders (goes after omega even after they are supposed to seal off the exit point and go around) which is definitely a trait he could have gotten from being a bad batcher

When the assassin in drowning Crosshair he paused for a moment right before he is stunned and that happens right when Crosshair grabs his arm softly instead of flailing as he’s losing strength and oxygen and the assassin slows and sits up a little, breathing heavily, but is then shot.

I will be making another post soon about all the parallels of the winter soldier and Tech (under the assumption the asssasin IS in fact Tech)

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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how important it must have been for leia to see them hug as the last time she ever saw him

OBI-WAN KENOBI • PART VI

#obi wan kenobi #bail organa #kenobi series #star wars #thestarwarsdaily #allthingskenobi #star wars kenobi #leia skywalker #leia organa #princess leia #star wars obi wan kenobi #star wars leia

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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Idk if anyone ever noticed but Fives throws one of his blasters to one of the rescued clones during the citadel arc

I had to slow it down so you can se it better, but look at him go. Also that other clone is great at catching I probably would have dropped it and got shot while trying to pick it up.

#sw #tcw #star wars #the clone wars #clone trooper #arc trooper fives #star wars fives #clone wars fives

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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the way his hands tighten around her and his eyes are closed

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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how this has aged

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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“omega”

#friendly reminder this is the first time he’s ever called her by name #star wars #the bad batch #bad batch #bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #star wars bad batch #sw tbb #star wars animation #tbb #bad batch crosshair #crosshair the bad batch #sw crosshair #crosshair and omega #omega #omega and crosshair #the bad batch omega #star wars the bad batch

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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tell me this isn’t what i think it is

#havoc marauder #marauder #explosion #bad batch #the bad batch #star wars #star wars the bad batch #star wars bad batch #sw #sw bad batch #tbb #sw tbb #bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #star wars animation

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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And one

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the dominos

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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The thing about Anakin (in prequel trilogy movies) is that he actually is a really good person by default. He is a war hero for a reason; he cares so deeply and unconditionally. Sure, he's a little careless sometimes and a little impulsive. He makes mistakes and bad calls and sometimes he needs to get his hormones under fucking control. But overall, he's very much trying to do a good job. He listens to feedback, he asks for advice, and he apologizes and tries to improve when he realizes he's wrong.

Really, he only ever crosses unforgivable lines when two very specific criteria are met: (1) when the most sensitive points of his trauma are being put under an immense amount of pressure; (2) when his support system, for whatever reason, is absent.

And even when those two criteria are met, he still struggles not to cross those lines as hard as he can for as long he can--until he eventually just snaps under the pressure.

Example #1, the Sand People massacre. Long before going to Tatooine, Anakin’s trauma points were already under an extreme amount of pressure. He was having nightmares about his mom--reminding him of his childhood as a slave and of the slavery in which he’d left her behind. When Anakin does go to Tatooine, his support system consists solely of a girl whom he does like and does trust but whom he doesn’t know very well. Old wounds continue to reopen as he takes his first steps into Mos Epsa and speaks with Watto, a being who owned and abused him. Anakin has no reason whatsoever to think Watto isn’t the orchestrator of his mother’s torment. But does he kill, dismember, or otherwise attack Watto? No. He remains polite. So polite, in fact, that it’s unsettling.

When he hears about his mother's capture and torture from the Lars family, Anakin is, suffice to say, upset. To rescue her, he goes alone (no support system). Even with his mother actively being brutalized (trauma), Anakin does not arrive with the intention of violence. He does not massacre the entire village in an attempt to rescue her. His plan is clearly to sneak in unnoticed, grab her, and sneak out. Even after seeing her strung up, at no point does his plan seem to change… Until she dies. In that moment, his mom, the epitome of his failure to free all the slaves, has just taken her last breath. He is completely alone. His mom has practically been slaughtered. His mom. Thus, his trauma hits a breaking point, and his usual support system is out of sight.

He snaps.

It is his choice, yes, but it is the result of a decade of abuse and generational trauma. It is also very much a mistake/accident… In other words, it is not an example of his true values and beliefs; it is an example of their temporary absence.*

*Evidence supporting this is in the scene with the line “to be angry is to be human,” but that’s a subject that needs its own whole ass post. I’ll link it later if I ever write it.

Example #2, the Jedi massacre. There are so many posts on the subject already that I'm not going to spend time detailing every single instance in which Palpatine isolates Anakin or manipulates Anakin into isolating himself. But a brief overview: sowing distrust in the Jedi Council, creating a narrative of deceit around the Jedi Order, orchestrating events to get Obi-Wan dead/offworld, and associating the dark side of the Force with Padme’s presence (via suggestions that only a Sith Lord can save her). With that, Anakin's entire support system is crippled. Unlike in AOTC, he is surrounded by loved ones, yes, but they can’t help him. By Palpatine's design, Anakin eventually bars each of them from entry.

Meanwhile, Palpatine is putting his trauma under extreme pressure and manipulating the shit out of him. Starting on the Invisible Hand itself, when Palpatine encourages Anakin to kill Dooku.* The movie explicitly connects this scene to the sand people massacre, which immediately establishes an awakening of old trauma. Wounds reopen, and Palpatine presses on them and he presses on them and he presses on them. Padme’s looming death becomes the symbol of his past trauma (of what he failed to protect and what he did as a result). And through Palpatine’s misinformation campaign, the Jedi become the perpetrators of this trauma, rather than the support system.

*For reasons beyond the scope of this post, I do not consider Count Dooku's murder to be an example of Anakin crossing an unforgivable line. I consider it to be an example of Anakin making a bad call. Even so, one could easily argue that his support system was absent and that his pressure points were being targeted in this scene, too. But I find that argument uninteresting because it doesn't apply imo.

Still, Anakin resists. Still, he tries again and again to retain his ideals. He seeks advice from Yoda. He listens to Obi-Wan's feedback and apologizes. He opens up to Padme. He initially rejects Sith Lord Palpatine. He tries to do the right thing by telling Mace Windu and letting the Council handle things. Because that's who he is--that's his true nature. Anakin is alone in the Council chambers (no support system) when Palpatine taunts him with Padme's inevitable death (trauma). And still, he resists. He races to Palpatine's office, but does he immediately kill, dismember, or otherwise attack Mace Windu? No. Even as Palpatine continues to press on his trauma (“I have the power to save the one you love!”), Anakin tries to reason with Mace. However much he is rationalizing the truth to his benefit, he is still trying to get out of this trap. He even admits the core of it in the end: “I need him!” Even then, even when Mace rightly goes for the killing blow, Anakin is still resisting! He attacks, he dismembers, but he doesn't kill. He makes an impulsive, ill-thought-out, almost reflexive decision (supported by the horror in the line “What have I done?!”). It’s as if Palpatine has shoved him right up against that unforgivable line, and Anakin is using his last inch of space to not teeter over it.

Then Palpatine kills Mace Windu. In his mind, Anakin has nothing left after that. In his mind, he is responsible for getting Mace killed (trauma), and he doesn’t see how the Jedi can possibly forgive him (no support system). In his mind, his wife is dying (trauma), and he is alone in the presence of his abuser (no support system).

He snaps.

Unlike in AOTC, this does not happen by accident. These events were deliberately and continuously manufactured by a Sith Lord with an agenda. Palpatine directs Anakin’s explosion onto the Jedi Order, where Anakin compounds upon his trauma with more murder and more death. He becomes isolated to Palpatine's manipulations by killing (or enraging) his entire support system.

Afterward, Palpatine has all of the fuel he needs to make Anakin snap and snap and snap, over and over, for a very long time.

Who is to blame is such a boring, irrelevant question when we have such a fascinating character. The prequel trilogy gives us a complicated villain who is simultaneously the executor of such horrific violence and also the boy who wanted to free all the slaves. A villain who kills a part of himself every time he kills another. A villain who is so horrifically victimized even whilst he commits his terrible crimes. And because it's fiction (aka the victims of his actions are narrative elements, not people), I'm allowed to feel unashamedly devastated for him. I’m allowed to see the truth: that Darth Vader is only the suit he wears. The mask concealing the good person underneath. The Jedi Order was Anakin’s family, too, and you should feel sorry that he lost them. You should feel sorry for the way he is abused in ROTS. Darth Vader doesn’t represent who Anakin is or what he believes, and blame is irrelevant to this truth.

Because support systems matter. They matter to people who have gone through trauma. Yes, sometimes they are even the ONLY difference between the choice to do good and the choice to do bad. Sometimes, all that is necessary to prevent a heinous crime is to help them before they snap. I think people are uncomfortable with Anakin because that kind of helplessness is a really hard thing to admit. It's not fun to realize that you could have made similar choices if you had been in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong person. Research has shown people greatly prefer to attribute their accomplishments to their own actions and choices in life. It makes sense. The realization that external factors may have played a role in everything we take pride in is scary--but this fear leads us to the bias that we could never become Darth Vader. Even if we were raised as a slave, even if our loved ones were taken from us, even if our sense of reality was being manipulated and distorted--somehow we would not be broken. We would remain Anakin Skywalker.

It's a comforting fantasy for people who have done nothing wrong.

As someone who is human, someone who has made mistakes and bad calls and who regrets the times I might have crossed lines, I find a lot more comfort in the message George Lucas provides. The prequel trilogy is a story about the harm someone (anyone) can do if they're not careful. Anakin becomes Darth Vader not because he’s innately evil but rather because he’s under extreme pressure and no one is able to help him. In contrast, the original trilogy offers compassion and an opportunity for self-forgiveness. Darth Vader chooses to become Anakin simply because one person looked at what he'd done and said, "Stop. This isn't you." In the face of how helpless and dangerous every one of us can be, I find Anakin’s story to be really meaningful, and I wish more of us appreciated it.

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betyoudidntcatchthat · 2 months

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I didn’t even see that woahh

i HOPE it’s not tech…i can’t bear another winter soldier type ordeal