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The Grand Inquisitor: *talking about Ezra* Is that your kid?

Kanan: No, that would be weird.

Grand Inquisitor: It’s weirder if it’s not your kid.

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Zeb is such a great character. On one hand, he's a genocide survivor and feels immense guilt over apparently failing in his role as Captain of the Honor Guard , but on the other, he regularly throws hands with a teenager and thinks that calling Chopper "Shopper" is the pinnacle of comedy.

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he's a monstrous heartless villain to YOU. he's a pinup girl to me

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an understanding

happy mace windu appreciation day! i painted my favourite clone wars au: mace befriends the zillo beast after it eats the chancellor, and they go on adventures in the outer rim looking for a place for the zillo beast to live

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ᴋᴀɴᴇʀᴀ + ʟʏʀɪᴄs 03/??      » wait by m83

SET YOUR DREAMS WHERE NOBODY HIDES GIVE YOUR TEARS TO THE TIDE

JEDI NIGHT & DUME aired February 19th, 2018. Remembering Kanan one year later.💔

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okay but seriously the clones are terrifyingly competent soldiers.

They are trained from birth by some of the most skilled people in the galaxy. They have a huge budget so there’s no lack of equipment. They also have the technology to do simulations more realistic than anything we could possibly imagine in the real world. And the clones are trained for ten years, day in, day out, no breaks, no days off, no vacations. Just training.

AND there’s also flash training, where they just get concepts and facts and figures and muscle memory pumped straight into their brains by Magic Space Tech. AND they’re genetically engineered to learn faster, learn better, and retain knowledge and skills perfectly. And they train for TEN YEARS.

Let’s do a real-world comparison with some real-life elite troops. Like the Navy SEALS. Those are pretty elite. How much training do you have to go through to become a navy seal? According to wikipedia, after bootcamp (7 weeks), there’s Naval Special Warfare Preparatory School (8 weeks), then Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (24 weeks), Parachute Jump School (3 weeks), then SEAL Qualification Training (26 weeks), after which you get assigned to a SEAL team. Then, you cycle though deployments, and when you’re not deployed, you’re doing one of three 6-month blocks of further training. But you’re already a SEAL by that point. 

So, total amount of training to become a SEAL and get deployed (i’m not going to count the 18 month training blocks after you become a SEAL because clone troopers also presumably spend time training after they’re deployed): 68 weeks of training, or 17 months. Or about 1.5 years. I know precisely jack shit about military careers, but i’m guessing most navy SEALs didn’t just speedrun the whole process, and probably interspersed some of the steps with regular Navy deployments while doing push-ups wearing scuba fins in their free time or something.

BUT clone troopers don’t spend time on regular deployments in between training, at least not while they’re growing up. They absolutely do speedrun their training, and essentially spend a decade straight in intensive training courses. During which they learn faster, retain better, pack on muscle mass faster, ingrain muscle memory faster, and remember better than regular humans, AND have knowledge and skills directly downloaded into their brains like Neo learning kung-fu in The Matrix. And these super-human brainiacs train for OVER SIX TIMES AS LONG as the US’s most elite force.

Fellas, we were ROBBED. Star Wars did an absolute SHIT job of showing how terrifyingly competent and unnaturally skilled the clones should be. Even Domino Squad would easily tear their way through a SEAL team. Even with Fives being a clumsy dipshit. An “incompetent” or “failed” clone would still likely be miles above the most highly-skilled military badass the real world can produce. Like, come ON, star wars. You had a real opportunity here. You coulda shown us WHY the whole galaxy was terrified of clone troopers, and WHY they were so much better than battle droids, and WHY an army of millions was unquestionably superior to the alternative, i.e. the Republic drafting it’s own civilians and forming a regular army of TRILLIONS. And how DESPITE the fact that they were Technology’s Perfect Killing Machines, they were still so achingly human. And young. And also i think it would be hilarious to watch Shiny!Fives parkour his way up an exploding building, dodging canon fire, take down six commando droids like he’s Jason Bourne, and then trip over his own feet and faceplant. star wars PLEASE. DAVID. i am BEGGING

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Temuera Morrison is such a beautiful man whose face was done so dirty by TCW and I can't get over it

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you want to die by his hand so bad it makes you look stupid

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if anyone's ever curious why i gave maul a clone it's basically just that i think maul would be the most obnoxious clone haver ever

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Why do I adore the idea of Ahsoka going… not feral, really, but very laddette, I guess? Halfway between space and soldier as she gets older, being the kind of person to kick up her feet on the table as she drinks a stein of Something, laughing and swearing with the best of them, cocksure and so used to death that she doesn’t heed it anymore.

Just. Ahsoka who spent years having hundreds of brothers, all of whom were dead set on teaching her Questionable Life Skills and all the worst words.

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siblings will mess with you just because, like telling you that the paper in Hershey's Kisses is edible.

is it Wednesday yet?

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he lived. served cunt. died. got resurrected. served even more cunt

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First Kaminoan: *decanting baby clones*

Second Kaminoan: *manning the random number generator*

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also I get why fix it fics usually have Dooku and the separatists just kind of fold over when Sidious is out of the picture since they are fix its and usually it’s about the HEA but I’m vaguely interested in the concept that Dooku, upon loosing his pathway to the seat of power that would be the empire, deciding to actually build a separatist empire for real instead of pretending to, and the fake war very suddenly becoming a very real one.

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I’ve always wanted to go to a house party like you see in movies but I never found out about any. Was too busy in the monastery where I was trained to kill

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After watching rebels and most of the clone wars, I’m sure of only one thing:

While Chopper may not have the highest kill count of any droid, he certainly enjoyed it the most.

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Rebel Rex had brown eyebrows as well, even when the rest of his hair had turned white.

More and more evidence that Rex dyes his eyebrows and not his head