Saw Gerrera: Deranged Extremist or Noble Rebel? The line becomes blurrier and blurrier everytime we see him in action😅

What we thought would happen Episode 15: The Bad Batch learn about Crosshair's location Episode 16: The Batch break Crosshair out of mount Tantis and they all lived happily ever after What really happened Episode 15: Saw Gerrera mucks everything up Episode 16: Tech dies and Omega gets captured

The character development from the so-called "filler" episodes made this all the more moving.

This is like the ending of The Empire Strikes Back, the heroes badly beaten and licking their wounds, a hero lost and an uncertain future.

The reason they returned to Cid was that they needed AZ, because of his experience with Omega. My guess is the changes to Fetts DNA meant that the biological differences forced the Batch to go to Cid, because only AZ had the knowledge to help Omega

The Empire truly won this season.....The Bad Batch has been fractured and the Clones are now more oppressed and alone. The finale was dark

Counterpoint to them giving up, remember they've always been separate from the Regs, until Echo joined, and had never lost a squad member until Crosshair, which wasn't the same cause he was still alive. Counter to Echo (who btw, I don't think was giving up, I think he was taking a moment to mourn and let the others recover) who lost his entire squad and several others along the way. They simply were not mentally or emotionally prepared for it.

It's just sad how Tech didn't got hints from Phee and then dies on mission. R.I.P. Tech. We will rememeber the coolest star wars nerd forever

None of this would have happened if they didn’t inexplicably forget AZI-3 back at Cid’s parlour. Think about that.

This season finale was heartbreaking. I honestly didn’t expect Tech to die until they got stuck with those stormtroopers. I’m looking forward to the reactions of everyone about Tech’s death, especially crosshair since I feel like he’ll be sad and even mad about it

This season was when I really paid attention to Tech, noticing him and his unique character beyond a matter-of-fact guy.

Two predictions for Tech He's actually dead He comes back under the control of Hemlock

I hope we get more of Hemlock as a villain. He has this cool, level-headed nature like Thrawn, but unlike Thrawn he's clearly a psychopath who isn't going to play games like Thrawn did.

Those "slow" episodes are the ones that made Tech's death hit that hard. After last season people were calling Tech redundant. This season built him in episodes like the racing and treasure hunting episodes.

I think the Cid part was out of desperation. They had no choice cause the only one who knew how to care for Omega has last with Cid, that being AZI-3. Also, it makes sense that AZI-3 is still with Cid cause they broke connection on a whim so they didn't have the foresight to bring him along on the mission they ended getting betrayed by Cid on. When you're loved one is in danger you tend not to think strait so rather than taking a chance on a planet that just went through a natural disaster and is probably a bit strained for recourses, you'd head to a for sure medical droid that knows Omega to help them recover.

The fact that Tech pulled out a "Plan 99", meaning that he'd sacrifice himself to save the rest of the team, just brought me some very sad memories of what 99 did for the clones so many years ago.

I will note that the main reason their mission failed was because Saw Guerra and his Partisans happened to be on planet with their own mission and they basically fucked everything up. If they had not been there it would have been easy to sneak in plant the tracker and get out before the Empire noticed them. I'll also note it was Saw's explosives that shorted out the rail line thus causing Tech to have to take the VERY risky move to restart the line manually, in addition to Tarkin deciding to be an asshole as usual and decide that danger close friendly fire was a good idea. There also is one thing you didn't mention in the video they still don't know where Tantis is, let alone know when an opportunity to track Hemlock after that one would emerge again this may have been their only shot as far as they know to actually track the guy and without tracking him there is no way to find Tantis, now we as the fans know it is on Wayland but the Bad Batch does not and hell if they adhere to EU lore Wayland may not even be in their navigation options as Wayland got removed from Republic records by a clerical error some centuries before the Clone Wars in the EU, which if that is also the case its even HARDER to find Mount Tantis. Essentially Hunter's decision to give up may just have been from both trauma and the fact that as far as they know the odds of them getting another chance at tracking Hemlock to Tantis are about as good as their odds of single-handly storming the Imperial Palace and killing Palpatine by themselves VERY low. Anyway the large issue of all this is that the Empire won this battle and not due to Imperial competance but because Saw showed up and threw a hydrospanner into the plan, once I saw him there I knew immediately the plan was ruined and not going to survive contact with the enemy in fact they'd have been better off stealing an Imperial shuttle like Saw and his Partisans did then taking the train, fly to the Marauder and transfer over and get out instead taking the train. Murphey's Law was in full effect with this mission everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong though it was not the Bad Batch's fault for it, if Saw and his Partisans had NOT been there they would have successfully planted the tracker and gotten out.

The loss of Tech hurt way more then I ever thought it would, as a person on the spectrum I grew a special connection with Tech and his own clear signs of neurodivergence, seeing him process the loss of Echo and Crosshair in a way that doesn’t make sense to other people but made perfect sense to me, the way he saw life as one big mission with a ton of objectives, they did a great job writing his character, and when he fell, the world stopped for me, and I couldn’t help but break down, I know he could somehow still be alive due to the infamous “no body” rule, but it was still a devastating loss that’ll stick with me for a while

Holding on to the hope that Tech's goggles record everything, and someone (Echo? Phee?) Is going to look into them to see his last moments, only find he survived and was either captured by Hemlock or saved by Gerrera's guerillas.

I’ll bring in the classic “not dead until we see the body” line. Hemlock did say the goggles were the only thing he found but he could just be lying and using tech as an experiment like echo cybernetics, or he somehow was able to hobble away from the drop again we didn’t see a body so he could be brushed with a broken bones or he could be missing limbs we don’t know

Hunter was out on rescuing Crosshair, It was Tech that forced his hand (i don’t think he changed his mind) now he’s at “I’ve lost the one i cared most about why save someone”

This season finale hit hard bro. I'm so happy this show has gotten better and better as time goes on

This ending was like a surprise gut punch from someone you thought was a friend

I remember being a little absent minded during the train scene because i was thinking "ah he'll be fine"... and then it happened. and that is the show's genius, i was somehow lured into a sense of safety and the idea that the bad batch were in control in most situations that i never ever ever expected this to actually happen...

I'm more interested in the twist about Omega's biological sister. Why did the Kaminoans make another female clone of Jango Fett?

Let me just say I love these two episodes the season ending was so tragic

I think the reason Omega is a female clone is because she had a mutation much like other “defective clones.” She just was an XX embryo rather than the usual XY. As for that ending revelation, I have a feeling the other female clone was an experiment through the Spaarti cloning process, and she came out as XX instead of XY.

I saw Phee and Tech's little goodbye scene, and I immediately thought that was a death flag. Was crushed when it became true.

4:15 I think the reason they went to Cid was for the reason she said: they have too much heat on them. With that being the case, it's better to risk going to Ord Mantel and risk only themselves than it is to risk everyone on Pabu.

Techs gonna have the winter soldier arch happen I’m calling it here

There’s a few reason why Hunter would go to Sid instead of Pabu. 1. AZ - he didn’t know the severity of Omega injury, after just losing Tech it’s reasonable he wanted the best medical help,. 2. Ord Mantell was closest to them (again omega was in and out of conscientious Hunter didn’t know how serious her injuries were) 3. Risk of located Pabu - the Bad Batch would have been hot after their infiltration. After being on Ord Mantell (for a day it seems), Hunter thought the empire lost their trail

My Season 3 predictions: - we learn why Omega's so important - Hunter/Wrecker join up with Rex, Echo & co (it's not like they'll find any trace of Omega if they go back to Pabu - and by the time they get Omega & go back, the Empire may have already found it & turned it into the Scarif we know...) - Cody and a bunch of notable clones/clone commanders will link back up with Rex (Bly, Wolffe, Doom?) - an official, galaxy wide clone rebellion (empire will publically downplay it as insurgents) - the clones will work with a Jedi, together they attack Tantis and free the clone hostages, Crosshair and Omega - with any luck, cid is killed - season ends on a cliffhanger, with them (Echo or Phee using Tech's goggles to look back at what happened - maybe to show Crosshair how Tech passed?) finding out Tech survived

I personally believe Tech is alive. Evidence: 1. We see his goggles in decent condition, meaning he wasn’t crushed 2. Hunter survived a crazy fall that was technically more dangerous cause of the trees and rocks 3. Tech is the brains, he would have figured out the impossible scenario 4. There’s a video on KZfaq of a skier surviving a 150 feet fall and survived cause of snow. Tech’s fall would have been similar to that height and there is in fact snow beneath him so surviving is 100% possible.

I think I understand hunter’s reasoning for going to ord mantell. If I had to guess he figured that she was going to betray the bad batch, so he tried to outplay her. He was going to get AZI-3. Tip the Empire off about cid’s operation, and then leave for Pabu with no loose ends. no one could follow them. He simply didn’t count on the empire being as fast as they were.

you don't need dialogue from echo to know how he's feeling, that simple glance at the empty chair beside him where tech used to sit says it all

I think hunter did not thought of Pabuu because he did not want the empire to find that location due to the bad batch been on the run and injured, another theory could be that they did not saved the coordenates to Pabuu on the marauder in order to protect it is location and therefore went to old mantell

I cried when Tech died, just like out tough guy Wrecker. I love that they show these tough guys have real emotions and attachments. It's absolutely heart wrenching that Tech is gone😿💔

When Echo left, I thought that was the casualty. It had been pointed out by a lot of people that clone force 99 had two tech experts with overlapping expertise in Tech in and Echo. When Echo rejoined, I had a feeling they'd be ending with only one technical expert

In my opinion, and a few other people in a discord server i'm in. I do not think tech died. They've made us think Echo and Gregor died, when they didn't. The doctor said "Tarkin wants to interrogate you guys" So the doctor retrieving tech's goggles and dropping it next to hunters feet, what was it for? What if they found tech, and are trying to revive him to get information out of him. I wanna see your guys opinions on this and if i'm missing something.

There is a thing that gave me a slight suspicion about Tech fate: when Hemlock gives Tech's googles to Omega he said that is the only thing that he was able to salvage, which is weird considering that someone recovered them and propably did not fall far from Tech body. Could be just a far cry with a lot of copium in it, but BB writing seems to put things with a foreshadowing logic and the fact that a New Zealand VA dubbed one of the character is an evidence.

I think Hunter giving up makes perfect sense- he lost Tech and almost lost Omega, and the only way he can contextualize it is to put the needs of the squad over the needs of the individual.

The ending was just a complete kick in the balls for me. I didn't expect any of what we saw in Plan 99. The only positive I got from it was that it's at least a confirmation that this isn't the end, and that we will be getting a Season 3... eventually. R.I.P. Tech. You were the best of all of us.

In terms of Omega’s sister I had my suspicions with her accent and the way she spoke to crosshair but I had some slight doubts guess I hit the nail on the head with this one

God tech was my second favorite me ever with crosshairs bei Ng my first. He will be missed

Looks like Omega and Crosshair are gonna be cell mates in season 3. I can already imagine a scene where Crosshair still tries to make weak excuses for himself, which causes Omega to snap and unload all of her raw emotional pain on to Crosshair and chastise the f*** out of him and since he has no where else to hide, Crosshair has to face it head on.

The loss of Tech is going to hit Clone Force 99 in season 3. Everything is dire and tragic and we're left more questions than answers. Hopefully as many questions are answered in season 3. Especially with Omega.

I don't entirely agree with one of the points in this video. That point being Echo giving up along with the others. I never thought he did, he never voiced that, and we only see him sitting in the shuttle distraught for a few seconds before the empire shows up and he's thrown back into the fray. I think Echo's only reason to go back to Pabu would have been to make sure his brothers got there in one piece before boarding his own ship and rejoining Rex, Riyo, and the others (because he did leave his ship on Pabu too so he has to go back there no matter what). Another thing I'd like to add too is unlike the others who have never really had a team member die, Echo has gone through way more trauma than they have, so as sad as he would be about Tech dying, I don't see that being enough to deter him, if anything I think it would fuel him to continue his efforts.

I like how Saw’s master plan was to blow up the building and bring the high ranking officers down, when instead he just blew up their ships, preventing them from finding the secret lab and indirectly killing tech.

Firstly, love the content of the channel as always. Secondly, I've a few observations from the finale & predictions of what we might see in the future of "The Bad Batch". === Observation: My opinion or hypothesis on the matter of the squad travelling to Sid's is because of distance vs severity of injuries. Sure, the new homestead the squad is thinking of settling down and remaining in is safe, and they most likely have all amenities needed for recovery. Sid's business/planet was probably closer in regards to hyperspace jumps required or length-of-time in hyperspace. Just so happens Sid was tired of the bad batch and called the empire when they arrived. ==== Predictions/Theories: Moving into Season 3 I'm sure in the prediction that Hunter & Wrecker will most likely go all in with Rex & Echo with those efforts. What else have they got until they find a way to get back to Omega & Crosshair at Hemlocks lab? --- I also predict at least a small time-jump because of the earlier prediction, or possibly some moving back and forwards in timelines (like with "Tales of the Jedi" portraying Ahsoka & Dooku respectively). I'm also curious what types of experimentation we'll be seeing on the clones. A theory I have is that Hemlock is one of the minds behing the "purge troopers" we had seen in Jedi: Fallen Order. Those troopers' helmets strongly resemble Crosshair's, and there's at least 2-3 varients of Purge Trooper that I think fit the "mutations/motifications" of the Bad Batch clones. And if I recall correctly, the Purge Troopers are canonically clones (be they original Fett clones or later productions is another question). ==== Sorry for the long post, and may the force be with you.

The worst part for me was that the scene leading up to Tech death i just thought to myself how tense this moment is because we never saw the Bad Batch in chronologicaly later series... welp needless to say that hit twice as hard :(

6:50 I think Echo will still go back to his squad with Rex to help Crosshair and the others. The other members are most likely going to lay low, seeing as how they don't want to risk losing their very dwindled numbers.

The reason why they seemed so sure they needed to settle down is because Clone Force 99 had NEVER lost a member yet. Through all the grueling days of the clone wars, the 3 long long years, not one of them died. They ALL lived. Then someone dying for something so comparitively mundane, it must be DEVASTATING.

I kind of felt this would happen as soon as people began thinking clone rebelion I had a bad feeling the batch wouldn’t make it through the whole show

"I never wanted this. I never wanted to unleash my legions. Together we banished the ignorance of Old Night, but you betrayed me. You betrayed us all."- Anakin during order 66 probably

He went to Ord Mantell bc AZI came with Omega and was best suited to help her. That decision qas made bc Hunter the father wanted the best possible care for his daughter. If he took her to Pabu, he didn't know what kind of care was there. He needed AZI. It makes sense knowing that. It wasn't contrived. It was emotional. Those slow episodes showed Hunter transitioning from Hunter the rational soldier to Hunter the over protective father.

I'm just glad there was finally a casualty. Didn't expect it to be who it was, but I think that that made it better.

Great episode and ultimately I would just choc up the contriviances to the Bad Batch being rattled after losing Tech

3:51 they went back to Cid's because AZ-3 was the only one that can heal Omega. The only one.

I knew the second Phee said goodbye to tech at the start that he was gonna die. It was like knowing a bomb would go off, but not knowing when.

Seeing wrecker banged up was a good show at how they aren’t invincible. Hunter has become omegas father figure and techs death couldn’t have been better written

Honestly, while it's not the finale I expected, I'm genuinely quite okay with that, I expected the typical "The heroes get the information and go rescue people!" But this was much more realistic, honestly, and I'm sure it'll make next season all the more rewarding when they pull it off, honestly we'd pretty much seen the Bad Batch run circles around the Empire for a while, it was kinda refreshing to see them take a substantial loss, obviously the loss of Tech was VERY unexpected, and I'll miss him, but I'm sure they'll make his sacrifice worthwhile

It's strange, the art of the Bad Bach on the Disney platform, Crosshair is the more separate of the team, follow by Echo and Tech, and only Wrecker and Hunter really close, on the series they started to get separate from the team at the same pattern...

They are totally gonna have a season 3 given to how it ended in a cliffhanger

I gotta say, I thought that they where setting up Techs death but I didn't think it would ACTUALLY happen

This was a sad ending, I definitely think Crosshair and the other clones are in the phase zero dark trooper program

I think they went back to Ord Mantell because they didn’t want the Empire to track them back to Pabu

I believe Sid was a far closer to them and they needed immediate medical attention, he knew Sid would likely punish them but wasn't expecting a straight up turn in whilst they're suffering like this. Echo is likely planning an rescue of the clones and will of went back to Rex after helping the bad batch. Echo being accepted as a clone was probably normal the kaminoas have done plenty of cloning in the past and most people either thought she was an experiment or all clones just consider themselves siblings by simply being related by kaminoas cloning

On the note of Echo, Hunter, and Wrecker completely giving up, you also gotta remember that Tech’s loss was still fresh on their minds. When you lose someone, especially in the context of fighting for something you believe in, suddenly the goal you were fighting for doesn’t matter to you anymore. Not right after the fact, at least. Yes, new resolve can bloom afterwards, but the loss is still devastating and apathy tends to take control until the fog clears. As for Echo being a bit cold about it, I kinda see it as a testament to what he’s been through already. The Bad Batch have never lost one of their one before. But Echo? Echo’s lost a lot of brothers and been through unspeakable trauma. It makes sense to me at least that he’d be a little numb to it all, even if he and Tech were close. Plus… he’s Echo. He’s always been pretty unemotional.

I’ve been saying the exact same thing how the sister plot twist at the end made no sense. It didn’t help that it came completely out of nowhere, with little to no buildup or foreshadowing. Throwing in sudden plot twists like this at the last minute tends to throw the narrative flow off-course and add complications where they aren’t needed. (And personally, I was really hoping Omega’s origins tied to Jango Fett’s long-lost sister Arla from Legends.) That being said, I’m not optimistic that this Emery twist will improve the show.

This finale was sooo tragic and it made me cry, and that's why it's so good because it insights emotion. I am heartbroken that Tech is dead (he was my favorite 99 clone), but I have mad respect to Filoni for daring to give us a tragic ending. Sometimes a happy ending isn't the best ending.

I think Tech is alive. They did not find his body, only the goggles. Keep in mind this is the same universe where Echo was "dead" for a few seasons in clone wars.

Does the opposite of MVP exist? Because if it does, that title belongs to Saw Gerrera. It was his fault everything went wrong and his plan didn't even accomplish shit. I'm going to rewatch Rogue One just so I can watch him die again.

I have devleoped a theory on Omega; she has been induced with the Turner Syndrome (People with that condition just have 1 X chromosome) by the Kaminoans, that's how she's still geneticly identical with the clones, despite beeing female. I have studied base-level biotechnology, and there's a few reasons why the Kaminoans would want that ... and those are pretty dark, as you would expect from them. Thaught I'd leave this short and sweat, have a nice day:))

Can we all agree to hate Saw Garrera for screwing things up? I legit cried for Tech's death, I never saw that coming.

I wonder if they will introduce Jango's sister in season 3. Perhaps that's what might be revealed.

I'm really confused about the vibes I get from Tech's death. On one hand he couldn't survive such a fall, which should make the matter pretty clear, on the other hand if this is his death, it could have been made more clear to the viewers that this is really his end. Falling down and disappearing into the clouds makes it very ambiguous if he actually died or not. I think he's dead and would prefer it that way, but it's not clear enough for me to completely buy into it and that makes it very difficult for me to decide how to react to it. I feel I should be sad about his death, but I just have too many doubts about if he is actually dead or not to be capable of having the weight of the moment set in. Star Wars has been doing so many fake-outs and brought so many characters back from the dead recently, that with every major death that does happen, I just immediately doubt if this death is actually legitimate and that kind of ruins the weight that such scenes would probably carry.

I don't think Tech is dead. He's alive and either in hiding or under the control of Dr. Hemlock. I love how they went full Empire Strikes Back on this one plus the "No I am your sister" You could see Omega's expression her heart rate went up really fast hearing that.

I bet they’ll winter soldier tech. Not only that but I bet we’ll also see Cody but both as brainwashed assassins like the other clone because of the cannon introduction of the mind wipe tech introduced in the mandelorian

I don't think Tech actually died. It just feels weird that only his glasses were found

"this is getting out of hand, now there are two of them"

I think they’re going to pull a switch on us. Everyone was expecting crosshair to be the first dark trooper and that the BB would have to face him, but I believe they are going to make tech the first dark trooper and have crosshair and the rest of BB have to face a rebuilt dark trooper tech.

Saw Gerrera just dropped in, screwed up their plans. Then bugged out. I was sure he would swoop back around with his ship to help them out. (Maybe he did.)

I think this really plays up that “filler” episodes are a great way to build character in odd situations. Especially when their conflicts are really insignificant, it creates breathing room for character development in more casual or calm environments. I kinda like them lol

I don't think Echo had given up on rescuing his brothers after losing Tech. He only got enough screen time to sigh as mourning before the empire arrived so he couldn't have made another plan.

What an ending, yet it does make us want to see how this will work out in Season 3. Yet we all know there will be no clone Revolt, but what WILL happen to those who are left!

As a whole, I think the season was pretty good and these last two episodes were some of the best ever. I think that your predictions at the end of this video could very well come true, and let's not forget that Cody is still out there somewhere meaning that his story is far from unfinished.

Hunter's mistake was to take Omega on board in the first place. She was safe and happy on Pabu. During the whole episode I was like : "leave her there you're idiot"

Mark my words, I'm predicting it rn: Cody. Cody not only re-appears, but helps in the break out

Maybe Omega got a concussion or something worse that the bad batch didn’t want to leave to chance on a planet that didn’t seem as advanced in their opinion. But other than that, it was a great episode.

We need season 3 ASAP after that.

This is an Empire Strikes Back level season finale. Ending something in tragedy is so powerful and makes it more enticing to watch the continuation of the story.

I think the ending was so good and new and fresh, them being betrayed by one they trusted, and them experiencing loss and wanting no more of that they gave up it was beautiful.

The last two episodes were just consistent emotional slaps, I think Hunter was just not going to risk anybody anymore. He isn't sure he can even get Crosshair back so he probably just thinks its pointless. Also I agree the sister thing kind cringe.

Loved the season. All the eps that involved Crosshair were the best. I hope season 3 brings some closure.

My reaction is tech’s demise: PAIN My reaction to Omega’s capture: ANGER My reaction to that ending reveal: Idris Elba hot wings coughing

Came off the mandalorian smiling. That changed very quickly.

Empire Strikes Back level of ending

The ending twist with Emerie was a bit stupid ngl, but honestly, the rest of the finale hurt my soul

I had the most complex roller coaster ride in these two episodes alone than in the entirety of my life

You could argue that technically, at least in terms of lived experience, bad batch is still essentially adolescents.