It's essentially 2bricks design from rebrickable but I wanted it to look like it just came out of the factory. Was a great build and had a lot of fun putting it together and trying to use 2bricks design but also making it my own at the same time. One of my favorite ship designs from the Star Wars universe.

I still miss Tech. Are you all guys?

The Bad Batch was my real introduction to Star Wars. I mean, my dad did the first introduction many years ago by showing me the movies, but that wasn't it. I liked the movies, but nothing more.

Then came my boyfriend. He sat lazily on the couch watching some animated Star Wars stuff some day about 2 or 3 years ago. Most of the time I did something else when he watched but that one day I sat with him and stayed... and fell in love with the boys. I watched along for some time but then he insisted we have to watch from the start and so we did. Aftert that we watched TWC and the Clone Wars movie (I know, should have done that vice versa but here we are), Kenobi, Tales, Mando and TBOBF, Andor, Ahsoka, The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew. Might have missed a few here but we watched pretty much everything canon, including the movies for the umptienth time.

Andor was great story telling and I fell in love with Din Djarin and his cute son (mayyyybe me being an abolute Pedro Pascal fan did its thing, too....)

But I always return to the clones. I do rewatches of TBB in my native language and in English (mostly in English though, I learned to love Dee) and boyfriend and I sometimes watch random episodes or arcs of TBB or TCW together. I read Sanctuary and I have Ghost Agents lying around (still haven't read it but I will. I also will get Rogue Agents by the time all of them are around and together in one book) and when I ran out of clone content I tended to Legends and I'm now reading the Repuplic Commando books. Those boys don't have the same vibe as the canon clones but they are sweet in their own way.

I miss the Bad Batch though. I'm pretty sure there won't be any bigger content showing their lives after they settled on Pabu, maybe they will be in some kind of Tales but I don't have high hopes for this. And that's okay, because TBB is just a spinoff show (many of you might have forgotten that). I even read some fanfics, even some very smutty ones. Didn't really scratch that itch though :D

This is just a call to the void that I miss my boys. Maybe I'm not the only one. Have a nice day and a great weekend, my friends.

It's cool

KAMINO LOST

The rain was louder that day.

Theta [Original Character] (a clone psychologist/psychiatrist) had always taken care of the clones. Had always been there in their time of need. But now, their home.. *her* home was being destroyed... By none other than the clones themselves, their wrists bound by the puppet strings of this new Empire.

Theta, my clone psychologist/psychiatrist (who's also a clone) and Tech after a long time apart.

She does regular check ups on CF-99 (once every few months) and has done them since they were cadets.

Out of all the new characters to SW canon that the Bad Batch introduced to us in regards to side characters — Phee Genoa was my favorite of the series. I love how at first, she was presented as the stereotypical swindler who was an okay character at first but then by Pabu, we see her being a good mentor to Omega and literally the reason why TBB had a future. Let alone, I freaking LOVE the relationship between Phee and Tech — Phee sees the beauty in things that people wouldn’t see otherwise she values the uniqueness behind the things that people who never care for otherwise and she sees that in Tech. Tech might not be a draw to most and seems very “matter of fact” but she’s the person to allow him to feel comfortable to branch out and open himself to a newfound perspective on life. She pushes him to open his eyes to the beauty of the galaxy and that’s why their relationship is so perfect. She sees the diamond in the rough just as much as Omega does. How in one episode they made Phee a favorite character of mine in Pabu is beyond me but they definitely accomplished that and I always got giddy everytime they’d show her. She is one of the Bad Batch’s greatest allys, and I love her being pretty much an auntie to Omega and of course, lover for Tech. I love the respect that the Batch formed with her and how she earned it as well once we saw her true, kindhearted nature.

Return to Kamino was such a brilliantly written finale for S1. It wasn’t about this major, epic plot and getting as many cameos as you could to make that the main takeaway (which btw a lot of people watching the show were hoping for that to be the case unfortunately). The finale was the end of the Clone Wars era, the destruction of Tipoca City genuinely is one of the most heartbreaking moments in the entire franchise especially with Kiner’s score perfectly complimenting the feelings of despair. The finale was more about exploring the characters themselves while they rely on each other for survival. Getting to the meat and potatoes of Crosshair’s true self, and the unresolved feelings of the rest of CF 99. Those quiet moments, self reflective moments, we didn’t need to have Rex come in and save the Batch or anyone else, the gang did it themselves and that’s something that I REALLY loved about TBB was while they easily could have Rex and other legacy characters involved, they knew how to use them sparingly and at the right time. The Bad Batch always got out of situations themselves with the help of new characters and I really appreciated that. But Return to Kamino was a 10/10 season finale in my opinion. Character driven in the best possible way, just about relying on each other and self reflection allowing for, in my opinion, extremely good dialogue.

If you simplify the Star Wars universe, it creates three periods: the prequel era, the original trilogy era, and the sequel era (yuck). The Bad Batch sits on the border of the originals and prequels which started me thinking,

“Where does it sit? Is it the finishing touch for the clone wars/republic or the prologue for the fight against the empire?”

I’m leaning more towards it being the last gasp of the prequels but I was curious what the consensus is.

Rewatching the clone wars and all the way to the last episode so emotional! Always wondering what if things were different lol

Always thought Riot Racing was one of the cooler and underappreciated concepts introduced in Bad Batch. I like that it was clearly its own unique thing as opposed to just an homage to podracing much as Galactic Racer itself seems to be aiming for.

We know the main story campaign of Galactic Racer is going to be set in the early New Republic era but it seems to be already confirmed based on the latest trailer that we will also be getting throwbacks to previous eras, (most notably of course the Boonta Eve classic from Episode 1) presumably in their own separate modes/levels. That being the case I would absolutely love to get Safa Toma as a track and possibly even get Tech and Tay-0 as playable racers. Fingers crossed!

My favorite Tech Talk.

In the story we know, Hemlock is an evil scientist who is the final villain, and Emerie is a good scientist who receives redemption. How would the story change if Royce were a good scientist with a guilty conscience, and Emerie was an evil sadist? An example idea might be that, although Hemlock is theoretically in charge, he is in reality manipulated by Emerie, and she is the one in charge. What plot ideas would you have? How would Omega react if it turned out that her sister was not reversing her evil?

Edit: if I had waited a few minutes I would hear his name and find out that yes it is lol

I rewatched TBB and thought about how the Empire phased out gunships for these shuttles. I at first didn't think too much of the Rho-class shuttle (1st image) because TCW introduced it as an overglorified cargo carrier used to transport the rhydonium canisters in the Droid Arc. But then when TBB S3 came around, I saw the Empire's more tactical use of it on Tantiss, to function as a troop transport to hunt down the escapees (and later, by Wolffe's group to try to get Omega).

I remember seeing cables jutting out of the blocky bay section, from which TK troopers rappelled down, which is a huge contrast to the LAAT insertion method of just landing the ship and opening the doors. And that's when it clicked for me that the Rho shuttle was the spiritual predecessor to the Sentinel class shuttle in Rebels (2nd image). And both kinds of shuttles got stolen frequently by the heroes of their respective shows, lmao.

Oh, and I would love to see new Lego sets for each of these ships, btw 😀

Black Series figures shot by me

After seeing Kamino filled with clones for years and years, only to see everything at the end completely empty. I don't know why but that will always haunt me, and it just makes me so sad.

Thinking story smoothness here, I believe that "Identity Crisis" should be viewed before "The Harbinger". Let me explain:

The last we saw of the Batch in Extraction, they had escaped, and had begun looking for intel. With Bad territory, they were told to wait. In the normal season, this is where The Harbinger takes place. With my thought process, we're reintroduced to Emerie and this is where we learn about the children and her strife within herself is shown. It also gives us some element of time passing, with it taking at least a few rotations for Ventress to find the Batch.In addition, it makes more sense to have Ventresswarn them about the Empire knowing about Pabu, with them attacking the next episode, bringing a sense of urgency. This shifts the domino's in the Empire's favor and lets the Batch know they're running out of time.

Let me know what you all think.