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Didn't CIS use slave labour in the form of sentient robots?
I always hated how they handled the prequels around this issue. Sending robots into battle is apparently the evil option while the "good guys" are literally cloning people to raise them as soldiers from the day they first draw breath. Somehow, sending machines capable of independent operation into battle is evil but creating human clones for the sole purpose of sending them into battle - human beings who will literally never know anything but war - is "good". And not just the action of the side we're aligned with - the Jedi are ontologically good in star wars and they're fighting alongside the clone troopers. Really weird choice.
I remember Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, from before the prequels. Not a lot of pre-trilogy detail, but it was definitely implied that the empire had been around a long time and that the Clone Wars was fought against imperial clone troopers, not that he clones were the goodies. Some fun stuff has come out of post-prequel Star Wars (I haven't seen Andor yet but ironically I had a lot of fun with the clone wars once I got past the bafflingly bad call to make the good guys the ones using clones) but I definitely preferred the old EU in terms of the lore.
honestly calling it the "clone wars" implies it was a war against the clones so it makes sense why him and other legends writers thought the clones were evil, maybe both factions should have been given clone armies
Maybe the good guys just shouldn't have been using clones at all;)
Honestly in a lot of ways I wish we hadn't gotten the prequels. Maybe the Thrawn Trilogy wouldn't have worked as movies - haven't read it in literally decades - but I really wish that instead of prequels we got sequels based on that. It was really fun. All the stuff with an imperial defector finding the Katana fleet and handing it over to the republic was great.
Honestly I liked the Disney sequels better than the prequels. They both have shitty, nonsensical plots, but the sequels had far better acting, cinematography, characters, and overall design. It's all slop meant for kids, so might as well enjoy the pretty lights.
And yes, I am aware I'm one of those "Nobody hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans." 😄
I would love to read a tell-all book by Rian Johnson after he retires and no longer has to worry about pissing off entertainment industry VIPs. I strongly suspect that The Last Jedi was the victim of huge levels of executive meddling. There's some really solid ideas in that movie. My two favourites are the open critique of the Jedi in both their philosophy and actions, and calling out the military-industrial complex. But it's buried in overly-long and often-unnecessary action setpieces that bring the whole plot to a screeching halt and feel shoehorned-in - such as literally everything that happened after Ben offered Rey a partnership after the throne room fight.