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CLONE WARS 2x10 REACTION! (Patreon)

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2024-09-19 09:03:06
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2026-08
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Andrew

one of my personal favorite episodes, i've been looking forward to you getting to this one kim! you've been picking up on the existential questions of the clones since the beginning and this episode really rewards that attention or if you're a younger viewer perhaps that hadn't thought about it, it makes you start to ask those questions. think back to the episode where slick was spying for the separatists and he said he wanted freedom, and none of the other characters acknowledge that idea in any way. they just say he's defective. and now we get to see rex actually have to confront the issue. although he does side step it. it doesn't matter whether he's choosing to serve, there is no choice. that's the point. cut is right. but the idea has been presented to him which is important. we're also introduced to jesse in this one, which is fittingly ironic, as he has the republic insignia painted on the front of his helmet and a matching tattoo underneath on his face. which is nuts, when you consider they're the republic's war fodder that have no real connection to what they're fighting for. and rex says he's fighting against an evil he can't imagine, but we know he's actually helping cement one in place as the republic turns to empire..

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It was a cute episode!

Hallie Raymond

Accepting the clones as what they were created to be—a disposable army not too different from the Separatist droids—was the biggest, most obvious symptom of the moral corruption at the heart of the Republic and the Jedi Order. If it wasn't widespread slavery (did they get paid? Certainly their service was mandatory.), it was way too close to it. The first thing the Republic and the Jedi should have done when they found the clones on Kamino is form a colonization program to settle these people who didn't ask to be created on a new world or worlds and grant them citizenship rights, NOT put them to work in a war they didn't ask for either. Probably a lot of them would choose a life of military service or mercenary work. They're clones of Jango Fett. I think they have some level of Mandalorian culture, and they'd already been trained in fighting techniques. But they absolutely should have had the option from the jump if the Republic and the Jedi Order were going to retain any measure of the moral high ground. Because the Republic and the Jedi opted to use the clones as a quick solution to the Separatist problem instead, they are no better or even worse than the Separatist forces and became morally vulnerable to the Imperial takeover which was the whole point of the war to begin with. An interesting note: While it is biologically possible for a human to reproduce with a Twi'lek—they are considered Near Human in the universe and these kids aren't the only examples of hybrids happening—I don't think the timing works out for Cut to actually be the biological father of Suu's half human kids. There were only three years from the Battle of Geonosis where the clones were first deployed to the fall of the Republic. This is not anywhere close to the end of that timeframe, and Suu's kids (though they do look half human) feel more like five and six than the babies they would be if Cut was their bio father. I don't think that makes him any less their dad. I actually think it makes the love story between him and Suu more interesting. I wish I knew it. Rex is absolutely one of the most individual of the clones. He's one of the oldest. He was there on Geonosis. He's survived and survived and survived, and he's kept learning all the time. (The way the Republic justifies clones over droids—still easy to produce, but they learn and think creatively in ways only the most expensive, or broken, droids can.) With everything Rex has seen and learned, this is an essential part of his story: Why am I doing this? An oath to the Republic is no good if he was forced to take it. Does he want something else for himself someday? If Rex truly believes in the Republic, if he wants to fight for his brothers or his friends in the Jedi, just like Cut said—Perfect. But he can't rest on "it's what I'm for." He's alive.