Speaking with StarWars.com, Dee Bradley Baker discusses the final season of The Bad Batch, a show he’s rightly proud of and one that has twisted and turned through its three seasons, bringing us to a pivotal point of galactic history told through the eyes of our remaining Clone Force 99 heroes. Baker touched on the heroic sacrifice of Tech at the end of the second season.
Season 2 ended with the shocking death of Tech, as he sacrificed himself to save his fellow Batchers. For a team with a knack for seemingly getting out of every life-or-death situation, it took the fandom by surprise, and Baker has heard a lot from viewers since. “I’ve been through a lot of conventions over the past year, and fans are deeply bereft and stricken and holding out hope. I tell them it’s a life well-lived,” he says. Baker has tried to comfort fans in the lead up to Season 3, focusing on the meaning behind Tech’s final act. “It’s a soldier’s life that is admirable and heroic in all the best sense. A heroic sacrifice is the end that any soldier on the clone army would wish for. They’re trained to fight and they’re trained to win and work together and problem solve and to do the right thing. And Tech does all of those things in his final gesture that keeps the mission alive and saves his colleagues, his friends, his family. I couldn’t wish the fellow any more. For me personally and for everybody else, yes, we want him to live longer, but I wouldn’t want to dull the gesture — the gesture of his final act of heroism.”
For ore from Dee, listen to tonights episode of Making Tracks, a roundtable looking at the final season that Fantha Tracks were thrilled to be a part of.
