#Oh shit I just realized there's gotta be a bunch of trans!omega tbb fics. I don't read many star wars fics but like

[queenwendy]

The Bad Batch Series Finale (SPOILERS!)

Okay, I finally got around to watching TBB series finale (after dodging spoilers on day) now that I'm done with finals. Spoilers below.

I will preface this with that I am prone to having initially positive reactions and then later souring on a work after I've had time to stew over it, but I have really been liking TBB Seasons 2 and 3 (Season 1 was neat ig but it had a distracting amount of cameos and was a bit goofy). I think the writing has generally been good and the character work pretty nice. While Filoni has an Abrams problem of throwing vague ideas out there and hiding behind "show don't tell" most of the vagueness in TBB isn't an issue. The big thing everyone on Tumblr is upset about is that Tech is dead-dead and that CX-2 was nobody we knew. To that I say: good. Tech's sacrifice in Plan 99 was meaningful and directly allowed everyone to survive, and they all did. I saw somebody else post about it (I dunno who, it's hard to search Tumblr) but CX-2 is a narrative foil to Crosshair, a sort of shadow-version of him. Making that Tech would be utterly nonsensical. Additionally, media in general--and Star Wars in particular--has a problem with killing off characters and then just, letting them be dead. Tech died. Period. End of story. Sometimes, heroes die. Sacrifices are made. There's no secret reveal, there's no "somehow, [so-and-so] returned!" they're just gone. Tech's death was a gut punch but it works because of how it upped the stakes and made Hunter and Wrecker waaaay more desperate.

Also, all of the interactions between Omega, Hunter, Wrecker, Echo, and Crosshair and the way they discuss one another were perfect. Crosshair asking who released the Zillo Beast and Hunter & Wrecker immediately knowing it was Omega. Omega comforting the green alien kid (I do not at all remember their names lol) with discussing Wrecker's fear of heights, a fear previously played mostly for laughs. The way Omega hugged Crosshair first, then Crosshair and Hunter because she understood how awful it was for Crosshair to return and the narrative needed to prove Crosshair wrong and that Omega needed all of her brothers. Plus, Crosshair DESPERATELY wanted his brothers to stay the hell away from Tantiss and not go inside.

Additionally, I love the expansion of canon in that Hemlock's research is probably the origin of Dark Troopers and that Project Necromancer was cut short, leaving the Imperial Remnant that would eventually become the First Order to pick up the pieces and salvage whatever the hell they could (Not that I like any of the way the Imperial Remnant and Palpatine's Return were handled in the sequels but whatever).

Also, Helmock getting stabbed, shot sevenish times, and then falling off a mountain will never not be fucking hilarious oh my god.

Finally, Omega joining the Rebellion is perfect. If we ever get a show exploring that it better A) not be another Ahsoka and B) be animated. And if we don't? Well, I can always write another star wars one-shot that's basically "these two characters must have met at some point, right?" About her time in the Rebellion. Rex was there! So were Luke and Ahsoka, and Omega should have reunited with Rex and seeing her interact with the Rogues and any of Rex's jedi friends would be lovely.