gffa:sailor-arashi:gffa:THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT ABSOLUTELY MURDERED ME.The episode was explicitly

gffa:sailor-arashi:gffa:THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT ABSOLUTELY MURDERED ME.The episode was explicitly clear that Ahsoka was the one who freed Maul, because she needed a diversion and Maul even brings it up as his final words to her–”You wanted this chaos!”She doesn’t want to kill the clones, because they’re good men, and more importantly she knows about the chips in their heads, she knows that this isn’t their choice, she and Rex are the only ones who know that this isn’t a choice on the clones’ part.  It doesn’t matter that they’re willing to die, she doesn’t want to be the one to kill them.But the thing is, those clones that died?  Died because of Maul.  Because she threw them over ledges or flung their blaster bolts back at them or he dismembered them or crushed them or they died in the ship falling out of hyperspace that he caused.And all of that happened because Ahsoka freed him for a diversion.There are no good choices in this war, there’s no way to avoid death, unless you just lie down and die yourself.  Ahsoka’s lucky (in as much as anyone in this war is lucky) that she only has herself to think of, she doesn’t have a planet being leveraged against her choices, she doesn’t have a bunch of Jedi (including the Padawans, as we see with Caleb and Cal! they both get Obi-Wan’s message about how they can’t go back home) being called back to the Jedi Temple being leveraged against her choices, they don’t have Padawans being gunned down in front of them, like we saw when Bail went to the Temple.Ahsoka and Rex get to choose for themselves, they don’t have to stop the clones from murdering more people, it’s only about themselves.So, she chooses to try not to hurt them.  But she already was the one who unleashed Maul, their deaths at his hands are going to weigh on her because she made that choice because she needed the diversion.  It doesn’t matter that she didn’t do it herself–and, just as what happened to the clones was on Palpatine’s hands, not the Jedi’s hands, what happened to the clones here is on Palpatine’s hands and Maul’s hands, not Ahsoka’s hands–she’s still going to feel like it was her fault, that this is a weight she has to carry.That’s the really brutal thing about the prequels–there’s no choice to be made that’s not either just lying down to die yourself (and thus you cannot protect people who need it) or someone is going to stand in your way, and there’s very, very rarely a way around that, no matter how hard you try.Ahsoka did everything she could to leave those clone troopers alive–and they died anyway because that’s what this war was.  Not even the droids that chose to help Ahsoka, more weights on her conscience that she doesn’t deserve, because she didn’t pull the trigger, because they were there for her.I mean, she followed up saying she didn’t want to kill anyone by doing this:Yeah, those guys are 100% dead.  You don’t survive a foot-thick metal door hitting you in the face with the force required to send it careening down a hallway. Not to mention that she had no problem killing them in the last episode:This episode had some pretty bad writing in it, unfortunately.  Especially compared to the previous one.Good catch on how she shot the deadly blaster bolt (instead of the rings that are stun shots) back at the trooper, but I actually like this because it’s something that’s kind of really important to keep in context–Ahsoka doesn’t know about the chips at that point.Yeah, those troopers in the first gif should be dead, given that a foot thick door just slammed into them, but I’m willing to give the show that physics is not their strong point and narrative intention will trump realistic physics for me.But also because it fits so well with something that breaks my heart–Ahsoka is the ONLY (former) JEDI WHO KNOWS ABOUT THE CHIPS.And it’s only once she knows about them that she realizes they’re still the good men they always were and she doesn’t want to kill them.I’ve seen people give the other Jedi (like Yoda especially) shit for killing clones when attacking them, but he doesn’t know that this isn’t their fault.  From his perspective, they just suddenly turned on him and betrayed him.When Obi-Wan and Yoda get to the Jedi Temple, they have to attack, because the beacon is on and it’s going to lure in more Jedi to murder them, as well as that’s the site of where we have seen clone troopers literally murdering children, like the Padawan that was shot down in front of Bail.Ahsoka only finds out because Rex got her a warning, she wouldn’t have figured it out on her own otherwise.  And it’s only then that she stops deflecting clones’ blaster bolts back into them and says she doesn’t want to kill them.Had Yoda and Obi-Wan and the other Jedi known, of course they would have done the same thing. -- source link

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