enough of my mutuals tagged this post as “bo-katan” so ofc being a Certified “Clowning on Bo-Karen” Blog i just had to pause on schoolwork to doodle this.
Yoda found that expired birthday cake under Qui-gon’s spare cloak. —- There was this little boy, who kept sending him birthday cakes for over forty years, never skipped one year. “For Yoda, the galaxy was so rapidly becoming emptier and emptier.”
Yoda found that expired birthday cake under Qui-gon’s spare cloak. —- There was this little boy, who kept sending him birthday cakes for over forty years, never skipped one year. “For Yoda, the galaxy was so rapidly becoming emptier and emptier.”
Yeah, okay, the ‘Rex resisted the chip and Cody just started blasting’ thing is a joke and all, but it’s important to remember that Rex was the only living clone not in a stasis pod that had any knowledge of the chip’s true purpose.
Cody had no idea that it existed, and therefore had no way to recognize what was happening when his free will started slipping away and the chip’s programming started to take over. I’m sure he and all the other clones were terrified and fighting it with all of their might, but they were doing so without a clear concept of what, exactly, they were trying to overcome. They could panic and struggle and scream all they wanted, but in the end, they had no more choice than Rex ultimately did.
Cody wasn’t weaker than Rex for ordering his men to fire on Kenobi. Obi-Wan didn’t mean less to Cody.
The chips took away their free will – and therefore their capacity to choose. That’s how it works. It wasn’t a matter of ‘who loved their Jedi more.’