I just think it's funny that both Omega and Echo are on Tantiss putting together escape plans while the rest of the batch are just stuck down in the jungle beating up Rampart at every given opportunity
Reminds me of a post I saw once that I forgot to reblog that went along the lines of "You know it's a dysfunctional family when the two most competent people are a war veteran with PTSD and a 12 year old girl"
(If anyone can find it tag me I lost it)
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Omega is literally living in Hemlock’s walls we are living in the best timeline truly.
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once the bad batch ends i need everyone who works over at lucasfilm to realize the potential of adult omega just appearing in everything. she knows literally everyone. hera syndulla? oh she helped free hera's parents from imperial prison back when she was 12. captain rex? the guy might as well be another one of her overbearing older brothers. asajj ventress? yeah she almost trained omega in the force. fennec strand? tried to kidnap her once but she'll hang out with a few bounty hunters. why not, espeically once omega learns about boba fett. omega can be connected to almost anyone in star wars in 5 degrees of seperation or less and i need this to be shown almost excessively in the future.
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OK wait. Hold the fucking phone for a minute. I think I'm onto something here.
Omega has reached a new level of badass since returning to Tantis. From the moment she entered the vault she's been cool, calm, and confident.
This is the face of a girl with a plan, and with absolute faith in her brothers.
We've all been assuming that faith is in Hunter, Crosshair and Wrecker. But what if it's faith in someone else, too?
And hey, come to think of it, remember how we all thought it was weird that one episode ended with Omega alone with CX-2, then the next opened with him handing her over to Hemlock? Remember how rushed and unnatural it felt to have our protagonist alone for hours with the mystery villain and not get to see a single second of it?
And OH MY GOD look at this fleeting expression the moment CX-2 bends to undo her cuffs, before she quickly averts her gaze.
Now let's go over her dialogue with the kids again:
"Want to know a secret? I escaped from this mountain before"
"Really?"
"How?"
"I had training. And I wasn't alone. Know what else? I'm doing it again. And I'm taking you all with me."
What if Omega told us a lot more than we realize? She has a secret. She knows she's not alone.
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Echo pulling off his helmet to talk to Emerie has to be one of the top moments of the episode. He knows he can connect with her through emotion and it worked right away (don’t know if it’s a clone thing, and like a familial instinct or what but she instantly crumbled).
And man Emerie is so fucking doomed by the narrative, her poor face when Echo laid out all the horrors in front of her made me so sad.
Overall I think we’re getting the payoff we deserve next week. But at what cost, I’m not sure. I’m very ready to see Omega destroy that entire lab with a giant sea monster.
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Remember way back in season 1 when people wondered if Omega was the combination of all of the bad batch? And people were like oh this shows she’s like Hunter, this shows she’s like Tech, this shows she’s like Crosshair. But no one could ever find an example of her being super strong?
Well this episode provides it.
She free climbed the innards of Tantiss. I repeat she is 14 years old and she free climbed a good portion of a mountain. Do you know how strong you have to be to continually push your own weight? All I am saying is Omega definitely could beat most people in arm wrestling.
Not that I ever thought this theory was true. I just want to point out how strong Omega needs to be to free climb the inside of a mountain.
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yeah yeah i know i usually post silly little anecdotes about the bad batch but how about some real analysis?
people have said it before but truly the only way for this show to have a message and meaning in the end is for it to have a happy (if not that then bittersweet) ending.
the whole point of the show is family, specifically clone force 99/the bad batch as a family. the show literally starts with them accepting omega into their family. throughout the show, this theme of family is repeated. them helping hera syndulla rescue her parents. them helping rex rescue their fellow clones because they're all brothers. phee introducing them to her family on pabu.
star wars has always had a message of love and family, but more often than not, that ends in tragedy. we're all hoping the bad batch will give us that ending where they're all reunited. they'll rescue omega/all escape tantiss in some way, tech will be revealed as cx-2 (i'm a supporter of this theory and for this post i'm going to assume he is cx-2), and they're able to all go and be TOGETHER as a family. what they do after that doesn't matter. they just need to be together.
i can see any of them sacrificing themselves in the finale, but the whole point should be that they're not ALLOWED to. not when they're this close. not when they're a family again. not when crosshair is back. not when they learn tech is alive. not when omega is safe. whoever (likely hunter or echo) tries to sacrifice themselves needs to be held back. because family is the point. because they're not letting ANYONE else pull a plan 99.
the bad batch show might be ending, but it shouldn't be the end of them as a squad. they HAVE to live. because family is the point, because they protect each other, because they're allowed that quiet life of not being soldiers and that time to heal and to join the rebellion if they want to. but if hunter, wrecker, crosshair, and echo die, and tech is either not cx-2 or they can't save him, and omega stays in tantiss forever, it destroys their whole theme that they've spent the whole show developing.
tragic endings and stories are star wars specialty (the prequels, the clone wars, rogue one, andor, hell even rebels and solo to an extent). the bad batch has potential to show us that there is that other central theme of star wars: hope. there's hope for our main characters and that they'll be the ones who show us that not every hero who fights for the rebellion/the republic just faces tragedy. there's hope that omega can grow up in peace. there's hope that hunter can have his quiet life away from being a soldier. there's hope that echo can keep fighting for what he believes in, that crosshair can heal, that tech will live, that wrecker will see all his brothers again.
basically, star wars give us a happy ending to this story of family and hope. we deserve it, the characters deserve it, and the story deserves it.
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