The official explanation as to why the Clones have the chips at all hides the reason they actually have them. The phrase "inhibitor chip" is actually part of the deception. Basically, each Clone has a piece of tech in their brain that can prevent them from doing something, or, in the case of Order 66, make them do something. In Season 6, The Clone Wars (episodes 1-4) the technical nature of how Order 66 is carried out is explained in very specific detail. Lucasfilmīefore The Clone Wars finale (specifically the episode "Shattered") we had no real idea how Rex could mentally and physically resist the power of the commands entered into the brains of every single member of the Clone army. Otherwise, why isn’t everybody removing them?"Īhsoka helps remove Rex's Order 66 brain chip. "It was a very tricky thing to explain and justify this chip that’s in their heads," Filoni admitted. Here's how Ahsoka helped close this plot hole forever.Īccording to a recent Nerdist interview with Dave Filoni (written by longtime Star Wars journalist Amy Ratcliffe), the solution to actually depicting the moment where Rex goes against Order 66 came down to a Jedi mind-meld with Ahsoka.
It turns out, Clone Wars maestro Dave Filoni was fully aware that explaining this specific plot point was going to be tricky as hell. Rebels established that Rex and two other troopers got around it, claiming they removed their own chips, but we never saw that moment until the big Season 7 finale. The thing is, we never knew how certain Clones (okay, Rex specifically) were able to ignore Order 66. But the animated Star Wars shows, Rebels and The Clone Wars, added a wrinkle to that: Not all the Clones were bad, and a few, managed to figure out a way around their programming. Revenge of the Sith established that all the Clones became Jedi-murderers thanks to one secret code-word implanted in their brains. Or, at the very least, one specific Clone: Captain Rex. The weird thing is, 15 years after the fact, nobody expected that some of those heroes might turn out to be the Clones. The opening crawl of Revenge of the Sithbizarrely told Star Wars fans there were "heroes on both sides" of the Clone Wars.
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