9th October 2004, 1:38 PM
Notice all the imperial starship crew officers are not clones why would Palpatine do that?
Well obviously there will always be some evil people who want to join the badguys. All of the officers, and technical crew are such people. The grunts, however, are the ones who would need to be clones. When it comes to doing evil, immoral, dangerous work they'd have to be clones. And there voices are almost, so far as I can tell, all the same. And they have numbers instead of names or ranks. Furthermore, when Luke walks into Leia's cell in ANH, she reacts "aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?", suggesting that they're all the same height.
Don't get me wrong, I hope I'm wrong; I think the notion of clones serving the Empire ruins a lot of it. It isn't as great a feeling to have blown up a ship full of mindless robot-like clones, as it is to blow up a ship full of evil bad guys who want to kill you.
Back to the point--come on, you think it was a blooper? SOMEONE told that stormtrooper extra to take off his helmet and pose with his hands up. He didn't just arbitrarily choose to do it while they were shooting.
Well obviously there will always be some evil people who want to join the badguys. All of the officers, and technical crew are such people. The grunts, however, are the ones who would need to be clones. When it comes to doing evil, immoral, dangerous work they'd have to be clones. And there voices are almost, so far as I can tell, all the same. And they have numbers instead of names or ranks. Furthermore, when Luke walks into Leia's cell in ANH, she reacts "aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?", suggesting that they're all the same height.
Don't get me wrong, I hope I'm wrong; I think the notion of clones serving the Empire ruins a lot of it. It isn't as great a feeling to have blown up a ship full of mindless robot-like clones, as it is to blow up a ship full of evil bad guys who want to kill you.
Back to the point--come on, you think it was a blooper? SOMEONE told that stormtrooper extra to take off his helmet and pose with his hands up. He didn't just arbitrarily choose to do it while they were shooting.
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