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or-te-ka-ra · 3 years

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Some thoughts I have about the first episode of the bad batch:

If you haven't watched it yet, please don't read, ****SPOILER ZONE*****

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I had a few problems with the episode in regards to crosshair and caleb, but overall it was good. I'll try and keep this short and hopefully make it make sense, but no promises.

The two problems I had:

The Canon for Kanan (Caleb Dume)

For anyone that has read the Kanan comic, we know of how he escaped order 66. The bad batch were not in the comic, nor were they even mentioned at the time. They had nothing to do with the Kaller battle before and after order 66 in the comic. This made me a bit confused since the comic is Canon and it was published during the time rebels was around. So if lucasfilm changed a part of kanan's backstory for the bad batch, does this mean we should disregard the comic's existence? Or at least try to fit the events in The bad batch with the comic's Canon?

The comic went in-depth to show how Kanan came to be with his master, the relationship he had with his clone troopers (such as styles and grey, who are very key characters in the comic) as well as how he survived and adapted during the time of the early empire when he was still a kid.

I honestly hope that the comic isn’t removed from canon, since I think it does a great job at telling kanan’s backstory. To just get rid of characters like grey, styles, and Kasmir is a waste.

I just wish lucasfilm would’ve taken this into consideration before thrusting Caleb and Depa into this. Out of everywhere in the galaxy, why Kaller? Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool to see kid Kanan animated, but seeing how the clone battalion isn’t in their usual red, but green, it just seems weird, as well as the situation and how Kanan just knew that he could call the bad batch for help knowing that Five clones would get the job done as opposed to a battalion.

(Little sidenote: I found caleb a bit weird looking. He just...didn't look like caleb. I liked depa's design though, but Caleb's looked wonky, not to mention him looking whitewashed. I love that they got Freddie to voice him again, but they shouldve just stuck with a kid. I get puberty and all but his voice just seemed way too deep. I'm probably nit-picking but this is just me)

Crosshair being turned into the bad guy

I was hoping for the whole “Cody hunts the bad batch theory” instead of crosshair. I never expected crosshair to obey order 66 and not question any order Tarkin issued as opposed to the rest of his crew. To just turn him into the bad guy and not give him time to at least show that he actually has a bit of free will from the chip and can question orders just like the other members of the bad batch irks me. I mean look at captain rex, in the finale he literally hesitated to shoot Ahsoka. He tried to fight the chip and he’s not an enhanced clone.

I honestly hope that crosshair will get some sort of redemption. I do feel he might get redeemed in some sort of “life or death” battle near the finale where he sacrifices himself for the bad batch to escape some situation, but I hope there’s some other way to redeem him that won’t cause his death (even tho i 60% believe that the bad batch may die in the end. Not sure about omega because I doubt filoni would kill a child on screen).

Some extra thoughts I have (about omega)

FINALLY, I now know that omega is a female clone. Ive been wondering this for the longest time.

But I just wanna know, why? Why did the kaminoans make a female clone? I love omega with all my heart but I just need to know. Was there some mishap when the Kaminoans were making the baby clones? Or did they purposely make omega female?

Also I want to point out how omega was literally copying hunter’s mannerisms at certain points in the show. Could that be her enhanced clone ability? She copies the actions of anyone she sees/admires? She was mainly copying Hunter from what I’ve observed, and she’s already started to connect with him and trusts him....so could it be???

Not to mention when they were standing off against crosshair and his squad, omega fired a PERFECT shot towards him and later says she's never even used a blaster before.......

Listen i know clones are engineered to have the ability to adapt and learn more quickly than regular humans bUT STILL-

The kid has never touched a blaster. She's seen them firing it, yes, but she's never done it herself..... She.mimics.what.she.sees.

I am 75% convinced.

So yes, those were my thoughts. I can't wait for the next episode and I hope some questions I have are answered later on as the show progresses. If you made it this far, congrats, here is some cake🎂

#star wars #the bad batch #omega #hunter #wrecker #crosshair #tech #echo #clonetroopers #just some thoughts I had #starwarsthabadbatchreview #review #kanan jarrus #Caleb dume #depa billaba #jedi

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pnwswiftie · 5 years

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I felt owned by an employer once. He was sexist and baited me into working for him only to turn the tables and gaslight me. And to be honest I’ve never pin pointed the feeling that has sat in my gut about him until recently; until watching my idol go through the same thing on a large scale in front of the world, until what has happened, what has been happening to Taylor Swift in her industry.

Mine was a veterinary surgeon whom I worked with in the past. I left the veterinary field and started a new career. The Vet (we will call him) moved away and when he came back he contacted me with a new idea to start his own practice.

He painted me a beautiful picture of what this clinic would be like. He said he couldn’t do it without me and promised me the world. I still remember the phone call where he said the words- “you will be my practice manager, my right hand, you could run the show and have a handsome career, I’ll make sure you are set for life, you will have an opportunity to buy into the company as well, to profit share.

He offered to pay me whatever my current job paid me. I didn’t jump at saying yes. I worked so hard to be where I was and this was a big risk. My now husband was hesitant and didn’t trust him 🚩 but supportive of whatever I chose (love him). Well, im the only one of me so a month later I took the jump and put in my notice. I trusted him.

I was hired on with one other person. A male, roughly my same age, overall a nice dude. We will call him Sam. I was in charge of all operations of the front desk and all aspects of the business side of things. I started every excel sheet for income tracking, taxes, inventory. I created every document, I created the scheduling program, I set up every vendor accounts. I scanned every piece of paper that came into the clinic doors, I set up our benefits. I answered phones I handled every single client. I visited clinics and preached to people our vision, so they would refer to us (we were a referral based clinic) on my days off. I did it ALL. I also scrubbed into surgery with the Vet and Sam, as there were only 3 of us running the entire show. If the phone rang, I would answer on a headset under my face mask and handle a client or clinic call right there, scrubbed in. I didn’t mind, I felt proud to show off my multitasking skills. He would give a little wink and a joke and the validation felt nice, like I earned his approval 🚩 when I did something above and beyond.

About a year went by and I was rolling in hard earned money, that’s for sure. I was working 7 am to 10 pm some days so I always had overtime. Sam was responsible for 1 thing- patient care, and I was responsible for LITERALLY everything else you could possibly think of. 🚩Needless to say I was getting worked to the BONE 🚩 . I was cool with it tho, this is what I signed up for right? We were growing and successful and getting BUSY!

One day I accidentally found out the pay gap 🚩between myself and Sam. I had been completely naive to the fact that we were not equals, nor was I getting paid “management” but that he made SUBSTANTIALLY more than me. I gave it some energy for a couple days and vented to my husband, then I let it go. Sam was nice, it’s not his fault. 🚩Maybe he’s just worth more than I am to the company, I told myself. 🚩Maybe he has a past history I didn’t know about that made him more valuable. It definitely should have been my red flag 🚩

My relationship with the Vet was kind of like a daughter and father but 🚩 only on his terms. Fun and playful and lots of “your our boss lady!”. It would also take very odd turns, 🚩 having to do small tasks outside my morals. In the office he would call me “the office manager, the boss, it’s all up to you, hospital administrator!” yet on the phone would call me 🚩 “the front desk person” 🚩“my receptionist” to other veterinarians. It bothered me, a lot, but I pushed it away. 🚩Who am I to be that nit picky over a title? 🚩He probably didn’t mean it or misspoke, I thought.

The tricky part is that I only have little under the radar examples of his abuse. 🚩 The ones you can’t QUITE put your finger on, that you can’t QUITE justify quitting on the spot but make you feel 🚩 worthless. They continued every day. He was incredibly sweet and funny, and then 🚩condescending and cruel. It was a roller coaster to try to please him constantly. It wore on me. I came to work and to deal with it I would make lists on scratch paper. Lists of why I was starting to hate my job. Lists that I would read in the car and cry. If I wasn’t cheerful he’d come in with 🚩“PMSING TODAY?” .... I’d laugh n bite my tongue. 🚩 That’s just being friendly playful right, he knows me well enough to say that to me, we’re like family, right? But every day I felt awful. And I needed my job now, more than ever. 🚩 He knew I needed this job, too. We had just put an offer on a house and surprise! we’re now expecting a baby.

Being pregnant changed things. I couldn’t assist in surgery and xrays like I used to. 🚩He would scoff when I would have to leave for prenatal appointments. 🚩 He would be caring and kind one minute, giving me hand me down baby clothes and gifts, and then cold and dry the next. 🚩Sam could and often would sleep in and no call/no show. He would roll in at noon and jump into surgery, acting like nothing happened, they’d joke together about women in front of me and being hung over. I was 5 min late once because of a traffic jam and had to have a “sit down meeting” about attendance. 🚩 I felt so ASHAMED and EMBARRASSED. 🚩 I had never once, NOT EVER, had work problems, attendance problems, behavioral problems, in my entire history of working. This job was my LIFE. 🚩 Was something seriously wrong with me???

The last straw came when I was 6 months pregnant. He claimed that everyone was having a private “check in meeting”. He told me at mine that 🚩him and Sam talked 🚩 and agreed that I’m not the happy bubbly girl I used to be. I sat with him in the shade of a big oak tree in the grass that has since fallen in a wind storm (ironically. He said I would be getting a $1 raise and that he wanted me to take on MORE responsibility since I could no longer assist in surgery and listed basically anything he could possibly think of to tack on to my job to make up for that $1. 🚩 all I could think was... how???? I was already drowning. I finally got courage this time and said NO. My lip quivered and tears ran down my face with 🚩 stress. I brought up valid arguments but looking back I wish my voice wasnt so timid. Or that I had the courage to call out just one, ONE instance of his inappropriate behavior. But lastly, 🚩 I asked why is my title “FRONT DESK PERSON” when Sam is now “Lead Surgery Operations Director (Who Does No Wrong)??

His response sticks with me to this day. It was painful and degrading and I will never forget it. After working my ass off and building this place from the bottom, the long nights and everything I gave them... I also will never forget his 🚩 smirk . “Well you see, giving you a title like that would be like rewarding a BAD DOG with a BONE” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

🚩I was devastated. 🚩And confused. 🚩I’m a BAD DOG???

I stuck it out for the remainder of my pregnancy, working the 12 hour days up until I went into labor at work. I trained a new girl on every process, excel spread, schedule I had developed and created. I put on a fake smile and wrote my scratch lists and re-read my lists on the way home and cried. I couldn’t just quit. I couldn’t let my family down.

We had our baby and stared at his tiny toes and fingers and cried every single day that I may have to go back to my hell job. I interviewed for different clinics while on leave. I was desperate. The vet was on a sweet streak- 🚩 sending us gifts, having his wife cook us meals and checking in on us all the time. He frequently asked what date I was coming back. He informed me that when I came back I would need to take the later shift and give the new girl my current shift. 🚩She needed it, he said. He said we could discuss the title of “lead receptionist” now and could 🚩 continue to work towards my goal of hospital manager. 🚩 I accepted but I felt sick. 🚩 I felt like I had to go back to work for someone who I couldn’t trust. I felt like he owned me in the worst possible way. (At one time he even tried to tell me I had half of the PTO that I actually had saved up for maternity leave, another 🚩🚩🚩 but I saved my paystubs as PROOF)

Today I work for the clinic that we shared the building with. When they heard I left they immediately offered me a position. The Vet left to purchase his own facility. He acted shocked and surprised and in disbelief that I wasn’t returning. At first it was tough, not gonna lie. We literally ate noodles for a year because I went down to part time. But the bravest thing I ever did was RUN ♥️ I now LOVE my job and they treat their employees wonderfully and equally and have real life morals.

I actually didn’t intend for this to be a novel LOL but even if not a single soul reads this, it’s therapeutic for me to actually get my thoughts down after almost 6 years now. My advice is to ALWAYS trust your gut. TRUST THE 🚩 RED 🚩 FLAGS. Don’t let anyone make you question your character. Never EVER ACCEPT being controlled and manipulated against your morals. Choose the future over time spent in the past (thanks T @taylorswift) and work somewhere that respects you. That pays you FAIRLY. Don’t be afraid to TELL your story too because this has to STOP (I’ve almost deleted this whole thing 13x) If it happened to me I can’t imagine how many other women it happens to. Anyway if you read this then holy shit here’s a hug and CHIN UP YOU ARE WORTHY, YOU ARE NOT A BAD DOG. ♥️

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