(no subject)

the thing that bugs me the most with the new SW canon (which is saying something, as it’s most of it, lmfao) is how abominably lazy and fundamentally gross the ‘clones betrayed the jedi due to a brainwashing chip’ bullshit was

especially when the preexisting reason was what held together the thematic narrative of the prequals to begin with.

like, yeah, a slave army bred to be used and discarded in a war where they saw their brothers die without nearly a peep from either the Council or the general populous would ~*probably*~ have a beef with those same folks.  ( there is no hypocrisy quite like the kind from those who’ve always believed themselves as heroes. )

the issue in particular is how the chip explanation utterly robs the clone’s humanity and agency.  Suddenly any legitimate resentment at being chained to someone else’s hands is pushed aside and they can be forced back in the nice pretty narrative box of ‘well at least it wasn’t the jedi’s fault, they’re the good guys after all.  can’t have any blood on their hands. can we?’.

and like, this isn’t even going into Jango’s entire reason of creating his clone army - the clones were made to be an instrument of exacting revenge against the institution that let Galidraan happen.  What sweeter and morbid irony is that idea when the clones do turn on the jedi out of their own free will?  Granted, he’s also using their existence just like the people he hates, but …

( - and then we’ve got the grey area of the commandos, who were more or less all trained by the same mandalorians who survived Galidraan, and would probably internalize that hatred of jedi on some level and sympathize more with the likes of jango when it was time to do the job.*)

i digress.

( *ngl I wouldn’t be surprised that in traviss-ish-canon, the commandos who were trained under the more xenophobic/unprofessional mandalorians (Priest/Reau as an example) didn’t already turn on the jedi in some scattered incidents. now that is something I’d like to see more.  how would plo koon deal with that, I wonder?)