Bad Batch S1:E9 Chat (SPOILERS)
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@FofoBett
I won't suggest for a moment that I am more expert than you are in actual biology of actual humans, but perhaps this is a failure of your imagination?
There are plenty of species where sex is mediated by environmental stimuli (like temperature) and every (healthy) individual has the full complement of genes necessary to become a fertile male or a fertile female.
It's also possible that Omega can be **genetically** unaltered, but gene antagonists (or agonists) can be used to prevent a gene from functioning for a crucial time during development (or to switch on during a crucial time of development). The genotype would then be pure even if the phenotype is not.
Similar solutions (environmental mediation and/or gene suppression/activation without gene deletion/alteration) are available for Omega's much lighter skin and hair (as compared to Jango).
All that said, I think this was a terrible move. Most people aren't going to have the understanding of environmental mediation of phenotypic traits that you do. Most people won't even understand the difference between genotype and phenotype. So even though this is fiction and the beings of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away can't possibly use all the same mechanisms as humans to establish important traits like sex and coloration, when you're telling this to average people in the real world, they'll get hung up on exactly the same issues that you identified. And for them it won't be as easy to fix as someone reminding you that non(earth)humans determine sex in lots of different ways.
For ease of communiction to the masses, just make Omega the only clone of a completely different original person, and make her not "pure" but the only clone that had certain modifications done to their genetic structure, thus producing valuable traits that only she has.
Then Jango and sex and whiteness and all that goes away, but the essential plot element remains: they need her for her DNA. Easy peasy.
I'll put this out there, in case I missed something, but if Omega is female and she is an unaltered genetic clone of Jango Fett (like Boba - who was described as Alpha), correct me if I am wrong (but a degree in Biology suggests I know my subject) - Jango is male, Boba, is male; Omega is female....the problem is the term unaltered clone.
I won't suggest for a moment that I am more expert than you are in actual biology of actual humans, but perhaps this is a failure of your imagination?
There are plenty of species where sex is mediated by environmental stimuli (like temperature) and every (healthy) individual has the full complement of genes necessary to become a fertile male or a fertile female.
It's also possible that Omega can be **genetically** unaltered, but gene antagonists (or agonists) can be used to prevent a gene from functioning for a crucial time during development (or to switch on during a crucial time of development). The genotype would then be pure even if the phenotype is not.
Similar solutions (environmental mediation and/or gene suppression/activation without gene deletion/alteration) are available for Omega's much lighter skin and hair (as compared to Jango).
All that said, I think this was a terrible move. Most people aren't going to have the understanding of environmental mediation of phenotypic traits that you do. Most people won't even understand the difference between genotype and phenotype. So even though this is fiction and the beings of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away can't possibly use all the same mechanisms as humans to establish important traits like sex and coloration, when you're telling this to average people in the real world, they'll get hung up on exactly the same issues that you identified. And for them it won't be as easy to fix as someone reminding you that non(earth)humans determine sex in lots of different ways.
For ease of communiction to the masses, just make Omega the only clone of a completely different original person, and make her not "pure" but the only clone that had certain modifications done to their genetic structure, thus producing valuable traits that only she has.
Then Jango and sex and whiteness and all that goes away, but the essential plot element remains: they need her for her DNA. Easy peasy.
