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- Embed this noticeApparently, the next Star Wars dudebro crusade is complaining about the clones essentially having chips in their heads that activated for Order 66, making it possible instantaneously across the galaxy - no questions asked - for every single clone to kill their Jedi commanders.
From the moment I saw Revenge of the Sith I always figured there was something funky going on with the clones because if not... how would that even be possible? Could you imagine a president of any country telling their infantry to kill all the officers in the middle of a war and for essentially everyone, at the drop of a dime, to go through with it?
Their main complaint is that it is less impactful if the clones were being controlled by someone else than if they were all so keyed into following the chain of command that their own personal desire to "do their duty" or whatever, made the switch that quick. I think others prefer this idea that the clones were never truly human and were much more like droids from the start... which is contradicted by quite a bit of lore both in legends and canon.
They keep quoting this part of one of the Battlefront books where a clone is talking about the execution of Aayla Secura (whose character design has always been prime wank material even before she had any actual speaking part in the clone wars cartoon). Basically they're talking about how killing her was the hardest because she looked them all in the eye to thank them all, saluted all of them (or whatever), then they kill her. Personally that always seemed foolish to me. Why on earth would she do that? Why on earth would these clones that we know very well, do that?