Being a Star Wars fan is exhausting. There’s a sense of entitlement to being heard in the fanbase at large that results in attacks on every single element of every piece of SW media as if the actual war is here on earth. If you love it more than you hate on it, you’re expected to be able to defend and justify what you love. And then you’re mocked anyway. You can’t just love something without random passerby informing you why that thing sucks. You can’t just be a fan- you have to prove you’ve always been a fan, that you hate the right things at the right times, that you fit into the carefully outlined rules of hating the majority of what Star Wars has to offer in the name of being someone’s definition of a proper fan.
As a Star Wars fan you have to hear about why your favorite characters are overrated, or why someone hopes they die, or why they didn’t deserve the attention they got from the story. You have to be bullied and stand your ground, again and again, just to preserve any of the happiness this universe makes you feel. You have to watch those bullies turn on the creators of the movies and shows and characters you love, and the actors that bring them to life, and you have to worry about what such a response means for the continuation of a story that means so much to you. “But that story shouldn’t matter to anyone,” they say. “It wasn’t the story I wanted.”
Listen. No one has the right to tell you what you can enjoy. If you love something, don’t let anyone make you afraid of loving it wholeheartedly. Ignore them. If something meant a lot to you, even if it seems like it meant a lot to just you, it has all the value it needs to have. If something moved you, or helped you through, or gave you a means of coping with how much life sucks out of you, it did what a story is meant to do. And that’s beautiful. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says about it.
And yes, I’m writing this as a reminder for myself just as much as anyone else.
I’m sorry, but I cannot feel sorry for Nala Se. Did everyone forget about what happened to Fives? Tup?… Yes, I am worried about Omega, but Idgaf about Nala Se or Lama Su.
I’m sorry, but I cannot feel sorry for Nala Se. Did everyone forget about what happened to Fives? Tup?… Yes, I am worried about Omega, but Idgaf about Nala Se or Lama Su.
the point isn’t that Hunter is a bad leader, the point is that he tries to be a leader at all. The clone wars are over and the Bad Batch are deserters. They’re not in the army anymore. They hold onto the command chain simply out of habit, not out of necessity.
When Crosshair tells Hunter he’s a bad leader, he voices his hurt in the shape of hierarchy, cuz that’s all they’ve known so far. But what he’s really saying is that Hunter is a bad friend/brother.
Ironically, the way for Hunter to be a better friend would mean for him to drop the power play hidden underneath his soft empty phrases of togetherness, and treat his team mates as equals instead of holding onto a command chain out of insecurity.
The way it is, Hunter can fulfill neither role; both the leader and the friend. That’s why the role of a father takes up most of his attention, the father-daughter dynamic with Omega having a built-in power imbalance that feels so familiar to him even though it’s different from military hierarchy.
And because Hunter is neither leader, neither friend, Crosshair has trouble to voice his own need appropriately. Crosshair thinks he wants a leader (and hierarchy), when in fact he yearns for a friend meeting him eye to eye.
I just have to say that Hunter’s father role immediately starts to overshadow everything else from the “Cut and Run” episode. On the one hand, taking care of Omega is correct and natural - she is a child, she does not have the experience and methods to protect herself, unlike the 99s. Of course, she needs protection and support.
However, in Hunter’s case, all this protection and support comes at the cost of feeling like he literally doesn’t care about the rest of his brothers. They don’t need to be defended, but damn it, they need to be understood and still taken into account.
Talk to them when they say they miss Crosshair instead of changing the subject. Talk to them when they say that a child does not belong in the squad, and do not drop the dry “she is one of us.” Talk to them when they’re anxious, when they’re lost, when the ground is slipping from under their feet - not just to Omega. She is a child and needs support, but you all find yourself in a completely new incomprehensible world where you are missing one member of the team, and all of you feel weird about it.
They don’t need a leader, they need a brother. Not a category B father, where B stands for Buir. Not a sergeant. Literally brother.
Hunter was ready to spit in the face of the Empire and move mountains because Omega was being hunted and because she was part of the squad, but did he do anything when it became clear that Crosshair had defected to the Empire because of the chip and not his free will? Had he made an attempt to stun him during that shootout on Kamino to take him away and find out what was going on, especially when Tech and Omega knew about the chips?
No wonder Crosshair chose to stay on the platform in the middle of the ocean instead of running away with the 99s. I think any of the squad in his place would have done the same.
I don’t know a fuck about human proportions or digital art and here I am learning what I was supposed to learn in college because in my job they commissioned me to do the concept art for a new project and I am having a panic attack. Send help. I don’t know how to draw. And people are expecting to me to do stuff that I don’t know how to do 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
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