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Originally Posted by Duruss
Clone wars in perticular was great for showing that as powerful and formidable the Jedi were/are that sometimes it's not enough. Like when Ahsoka was dispatched to help some rebels, and got shot plus lost the leader of that rebel cell, or again when she was kidnapped by Transhodans, and she lost of of the Padawan she wanted to save.
It also showed their hubris in the trial episodes, and how callous they could be with the Carnage of Kral. Dude got clones dead left right and center but the council allowed him to remain in command because he won, but at what cost? Just some clones, the fact that they are living, breathing, feeling people did not matter.
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There was a deleted scene conversation in ROTS that tied this together nicely when Yoda and Kenobi mused about the arrogance of the Jedi.
We saw select few Jedi in the Clone Wars cartoon series. For the most part Clones sadly had no rights, most of the Jedi saw them as no better then the droids that they were fighting and used them as tools. For every Anakin, Kenobi, there were Krells and Quinlan Vos' who outright hated the clones. And frankly the government nor the Jedi Council cared all that much.
The Jedi were in a holy war casualties of non force users meant literally nothing to them.
Even Ashoka before she gained some wisdom treated the Clones as disposable. She lost an entire fighter wing due to that belief, and while she mourned them, the mind set were clones were disposable.
The funny thing is they didn't really need the inhibitor chips for anything except a plot device to make Order 66 not their fault. But in the EU Legends where the chips didn't exist, the Clones were fiercely loyal to the Republic and the Chancellor so they were going to follow Order 66, but a lot of Clones saw the Jedi as willing butchers of the Clones throwing away their short life for nothing or little gain. I think that would have in the long run been more intriguing as a plot point that the Emperor didn't need chips to ensure the death of the Jedi.
Even in the rise of Darth Vader book the Clones that disobeyed Order 66 did it not because of some affection of their Jedi General's or Commanders. But they felt that the order didn't sound right, there was no logic to it, but when it was explained, it was like, wait the Jedi tried to kill the Chancellor and they were behind this war all the time, then yeah, they probably deserved to die.
I was watching Generation Tech the other day by the way which is a great youtube channel. And he as an another discussion talked about the chosen one prophecy. He theorized that Anakin was meant to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the force. But was bought forth to destroy the Sith and Jedi as both of them were continually fighting to influence the force and shape it, and change destinies and the Force responded by birthing their executioner. It makes sense because if Anakin destroyed the Sith and left just the Jedi as the practitioners of the light side, the force is out of balance. When Anakin killed the Jedi off, the force was out of balance. But if Anakin wiped them both out you'd have one force user in Anakin who would be the balance of light and dark like the Father in the Clone Wars story.