agoraoptera I much preferred the idea that the clone troopers were fundamentally just loyal to the institution of the Republic (as they had been raised to be), and didn't need any mind control involved to turn on the Jedi.
I mean, indeed! The quotes from the Commander Bly, for example, from his wiki page, illustrate this perfectly:
"Get the order and execute it. Let the generals sort out the rest."
"Know the mission, know your enemy, achieve the mission, kill the enemy. That's all I need. It's all any soldier needs."
Quinlan Vos: "You shot at me the last time we saw each other."
Bly: "You were an enemy the last time I saw you. Now they say you're not."
Aayla Secura: "So, Commander Bly, what will you do when this war is over?"
Bly: "Whatever I'm ordered, of course."
They were soldiers, for all that holy, soldiers that were born and raised for the purpose of war from the literal day one. They were not some kind of fairies with blasters who only did bad things because mind chips.
The whole "mind chip" line simply outright kills all the rather usual yet never old human tradegy of war when one human being has to rise weapon against other human being. I just cannot understand how anyone who supports the "mind chip" arc fails to see this, as it reduces clones to mindless automatons, removing all humanity from them. Yes, you cannot blame them for their actions anymore, but you hardly can be sympathetic towards a machine either. It pretty much reduces clones to the very meat they were supposed to be, but were not, because back in the days they were still human after all, and with that very point in mind all the novels and games and animations about clones were made. Mind chips nullify decades of work of different authors, and it's just sad.
