Bad Batch Episode Three Cody Rant-

Senior Year things to appreciate apart from Gilderoy (who I think we've been doing plenty of well deserved appreciating this week):

Brian Holden as Hagrid - so fucking funny, I remember squealing my absolute head off the first time I saw this bit. I completely understand why Darren is just creasing throughout the whole scene.

The way that learning about Voldemorts backstory isn't necessary to appreciate his plot in AVPM but when you know it it adds so many more layers. Starkid literally said Voldemort is like that because of homophobic parents and we were like fuck me up fam.

This has already been discussed at length but obviously the last scene. "I hope you find that swimming pool". Albus Scarfy Potter. Quirrelmort. Wang Mu. Okay is wonderful. All of it.

Tyler as McGonnagall - seriously what can't that man play?? He embodies her.

YOU GOTTA GO HOME, YOU GOTTA GO HOME - you know what I'm on about

Jeff Blim's vocals in Get in My Mouth. Also would recommend looking up Nick Strauss' cover from a Leaky Con in I think 2013. It's on YouTube and it's fucking incredible.

I Was and Tonight This School is Mine are both complete bangers and the fact that they're still audiably bangers even with the microphone issues says a lot. The fucking poetry in I was, and the fucking sass in ttsim

The many layers of Always Dance. The beautiful bit at the start with Dylan, then the fucking dance off between Voldemort and Lucius which is everything and finally the evil last verse when he's waltzing with Ginny

Sidekick.

Joey Richter's actual real ass human tears that he manages to squeeze out

Everything Ends continual ability to make me bawl like a baby. Goddam you Brosenthal why is your voice so good.

"I think we FOUND each other". It should be illegal for a line so funny to come in the middle of a scene so emotional. I distinctly remember when I watched it as a teenager having to pause to howl with laughter (tigerfucker and Santa Claus is going to high school are the only other scenes I remember having to do that for on first watch). Lilly divorcng James in heaven and remarrying Cedric is just an inspired concept

Evana Lynch smoking a fag - it was really cool that they became big enough to get an actual Harry potter actor in the show but just watching her smoking while washing blood off her hands made it so worth

The fact that AJs commitment to being in both the band and the cast means there are so many moments where the camera pans across and it's just oh look there's Gilderoy Lockhart just casually playing keyboard with Clark

The death day party scene - Ron and Lavenders date, Harry and Cho's date and then Seamus and Dean's double date with Ginny all 3 of them fucking hysterical. Also the bit with the ice sculpture and the roller skates

Brant Cox - he has like 5 lines in this play but they're the funniest 5 lines

All of the boo boos - most specifically 'fuck the tie' and 'a floating diary? Ah shit'

"sssssnake ssssnake I'm a snake where are my arms gone, only kidding I'm a ssssnake"

"sparkles, sparkles, I'm gay!" ~ Lord Voldemort

"I drew a majestic owl" - watching the SK10 livestreams and apparantly this comes from when they were doing a 24 hour story writing thing (a Hackathon for humanities students??) and Jim got bored really early on so spent most of the time drawing a realistic owl

And finally that it actually happened in the first place because I remember how initially it was going to be right after the sequel but then everything got thrown into disarray, and it kept getting pushed back. But thanks to us being absolute impatient assholes who commented 'give us threequel' every time they so much as breathed on social media we got it and it was wonderful!

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I was thinking about how the real beauty of Codywan is that they are only really allowed to exist in the quiet parts of the war and then I remembered the quote from Everything, Everywhere, All At Once which I think describes them perfectly.

“I wanted to say… in another life I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.”

Except replace laundry and taxes with paperwork. I think this is Cody’s perspective in particular. This idea of this being the most boring part of his day but it’s a privilege for him because he gets to do it with Obi Wan but also because it’s so completely ordinary. He doesn’t see Obi Wan as this all-powerful Jedi, he just sees him, and that is who he loves. It’s not that his abilities as a Jedi aren’t impressive, but Cody loves the person behind all of it and he would’ve loved him without any of it too. Even though he never took these moments for granted during the war, after Order 66, he still feels like he has. He’d do anything to get that back but it’s his fault that he can’t (or so he believes).

IM SO ABSOLUTELY SICK OVER CODY’S IMPERIAL ARMOR BECAUSE YOU CAN STILL SEE HIS SUNBURST PAINT. THE STRIPES ARE STILL THERE. BUT THEY’RE GREY. THEY DON’T REPRESENT THE SUNRISE ANYMORE- THEY’RE A LITERAL SHADOW.

HE’S NO LONGER THE SUNRISE. HE’S ALSO BECOME A LITERAL SHADOW.

tbh I dont care for the plot. but I do care for Adam bringing chainsaw to Ronan because he thought it would wake him up and so he wouldn't be all alone

Just watched Rebels s3e5 and Rex thinking the Clone Wars haven't ended and i m m e d i a t e l y saying "Cody" gave me fucking whiplash

being a swiftie nowadays is so chill like homegirl just disappears for months and then suddenly shows up and drops something with 24 hours notice, does 5 interviews and 3 performances in 2 days, and then disappears again for half a year

me deluding myself into believing that they pushed Bad Batch season 2 back so they could make Cody live and go find Obi-Wan on Tatooine and then show them together in Kenobi season 2 (which has not even been announced to be happening)

If Cody dies, I die too.