As a brown girl who is rarely ever represented in cinema, except to be a unique love interest, I understand why people feel so angry about the clones being whitewashed in tbb.
However, when I first came across the tag #unwhitewashed i could not understand what it all could be about. I only fell into this fandom about a month ago, within that time I have consumed all the animated content that exists... (well almost). (I had already seen the movies tho). And I loved the clones the moment I laid my eyes on them in The Clone Wars. And one of the biggest reasons for that insurmountable love that had lit within me, was because they were ... different. Not white... so pretty, with their prominent noses and dark skin that I had never seen before... being given the importance that they were. It was just amazing... and I had been swept off my feet no question about it
Then when I saw the unfortunate tag, I realized it wasn’t all that great and Star Wars racist past opened up and it was terrible for me. The Bad Batch was tainted and I felt sick to my stomach. I understood the fans’ anger but the thing is I also really didnt understand those emotions... cuz I stopped expecting shit from white people. There was this on dude Siddiq in some random episode... and that man is white. I mean for gods sake man, thats a pakistani name. You cant do this... and then they gave indian accents to one senator and a few creatures... and I am just like... thats it? And teh item song playing in Hondo’s bar... i mean... so sexy south-asian girl trope returns? Blekh... What I am saying is i dont expect better, but thats my problem. I think its great that the people are voicing their anger... Temuera is perfect and every clone should resemble him. The first time I saw Temuera was in the Mandalorian... i almost cried he was so cool... it looked like he was wearing a kameez... and welll... i didnt know i could get that emotional tbh
Whitewashing the clones was the worst decision Filloni and crew made. I’d have loved them no matter what they looked like, and its sad that the creators cant see that we dont care. we just want our clones to look like actual clones..
I mean, HOW THE FUK IS THAT KID KANAN??? THEY CHANGED HIS FUKING NOSE.
And whats worse is I have Kanan’s nose and they just took it away. Like why the fuq man Shit hurts...










