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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CrimsonReaver" data-source="post: 5722344" data-attributes="member: 91729">I think I hate Lucas most of all for spoiling the mystery of the Clone Wars.  It was a throwaway line in Star Wars, just an offhand remark, but it was such a wonderfully cool thing to imagine just what, exactly, the Clone Wars were...  I much preferred my youthful imaginings of a secret underground lab housing dozens, if not hundreds of cryo-tubes (similar in appearance to the bacta tank from ESB) filled with cloned Jedi who were created so their powers could be twisted, corrupted to the Dark Side (because clones have to be evil, damn it!), and that's what led to the near extinction of the Jedi Order: Jedi fighting evil clones of themselves.  Because what else but another Jedi, a Dark Jedi, could kill a Jedi?Seeing Jedi - Jedi Knights and Masters, anyway - being taken out by Clone Troopers, the progenitors of the grossly inept Stormtroopers, was even lamer and more embarrassing than Boba Fett going out like a punk as part of some stupid slapstick-y gag.Some things truly are better left to the imagination.</blockquote>