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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS

“The clones, who have
been encouraged to take
names and form bonds,
recognize that while
they had been bred as
obedient soldiers, they
have the potential to be
so much more.”

on TV their dialogue pointed
to something more than just
machine in them. Tragically, they
recognized that they had been
designed with limited capabilities
and could never hope to exceed
them. When R2-D2 takes charge
of a squad of reprogrammed battle
droids in Season Three’s “The
Citadel,” they tell their astromech
leader that it has been an honor
to serve. Could a battle droid have
a true sense of honor, or simply
an awareness that such a concept
exists? Is there a difference? It’s a
subtle, throwaway line, but these
are the sort of grown-up questions
inspired by the show.
The Jedi and the Force
One of the most signifi cant events
in The Clone Wars tackled all of
these themes and more—from
questions of free will to questions
about who would survive the
series—while also expanding our
conception of the Force within the destiny. Perhaps it posed more
galaxy. Presented as a three-episode questions than it answered, but
arc during Season Three, the Mortis it fed into Yoda asking himself
trilogy introduced the Father, the similar questions in Season Six. “Could a battle
Son, and the Daughter—beings Drawn to Dagobah by the Force droid have a true
who existed somwhere outside of spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn in the
reality and who embodied aspects episode “Voices,” Yoda ultimately sense of honor,
of the Force itself. Their internecine realizes that serving the light side or simply an
struggle cast a new light on the means more than just maintaining
prophesy of the Chosen One, the Jedi Order—an epiphany he awareness that
first mentioned in Star Wars: The eventually gets to share with Luke such a concept

Phantom Menace, and played in one of the most affecting scenes
with accepted ideas about Anakin’s in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. exists?”

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