10 Smartest Decisions In Star Wars History
4. Ahsoka Tries To Save The Clones - The Clone Wars
Star Wars: The Clone Wars manages to elevate the Prequel Trilogy in a great many ways, but especially when it comes to the depiction of the Clone Army.
In Episodes II and III the clones take a back seat. There's the implication that they're expendable and no real effort is made to explore the relationship between them and their Jedi generals, bar a few lines of dialogue shared between Obi-Wan and Commander Cody before the Siege of Utapau.
Revenge of the Sith didn't devote much time to unpacking the nitty gritty details of how Order 66 worked either, but thankfully The Clone Wars did. CT-5555 (or 'Fives') manages to uncover the conspiracy behind Order 66 in The Clone Wars' sixth season after one of his comrades unwittingly executes the order prematurely, and realises that every clone has a chip installed in their brain that'll activate when given the command.
Fives dies before he can expose the conspiracy, but Ahsoka uses his research to free Captain Rex from his programming in the series' final arc. The important thing here though is that Ahsoka's first instinct isn't to massacre her own troops. Instead, she endeavours to figure out what happened and tries to save as many of them as possible - a stark contrast to the way Yoda and Obi-Wan behave in Episode III, and a prime example of how Ahsoka was able to chart her own path away from the Order after she left.