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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE] As an aside: I still feel cheated that they're called the Clone Wars and then Lucas turns things around on us and has the Clones be the good guys. I think a more appropriate title for those wars would have been "Separatists Wars" or something similar. Secessionist Wars? [/QUOTE]Well, it would be understandable from the POV of Leia Organa to call the conflict the Clone Wars in a message to Obi-Wan Kenobi, for at least two reasons: first, the Clones were the real enemies of Kenobi in the end, and served evil interests; and second, most of the Rebel allies at the time would no doubt be former Separatists anyway. Of course, it is also possible that the Separatist war was just the first of the wars involving the clone army, and that subsequent wars in the "ongoing series" involved General Kenobi fighting under Bail Organa against the Imperial Clones. This would not be a continuity violation, since there is no story requirement for Ben to lie low at Tatooine the [i]whole[/i] intervening time, or Bail to fight a "low-profile" war (as long as his Bruce Wayne persona stays unblemished, his Batman can deploy mighty armies in successively more hopeless battles just fine). Forgetting the EU for the moment, the expression "Clone Wars" is only used twice in the series, really: once when Leia sends her message, and later/earlier when Yoda orates his "Begun, the Clone Wars have" bit. The second/first usage is frankly rather idiotic. What is Yoda really saying, and why? Is he making some sort of a Force prophecy about there being many wars involving clones from now on? Well, duh! Is he coining a phrase in the hopes that he'll get royalties? Why not say something slightly less asinine, like "Begun for no good reason, endless wars no doubt have" or "Mark my words: down the drain, the Republic now descend will"? Yoda's introducing of the Clone Wars phrase in that manner, at that time, really jars with realism. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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