Underrated accidental horrifying implication by The Bad Batch: Deke, Stak, and Mox
So, we all know that current Star Wars canon is kind of doomed to gloss over the clones' accelerated aging. It wasn't touched on much if at all in The Clone Wars, and with the release of Rebels showing our boys as biological senior citizens, we can assume there was never a "cure" found. Not that it ever really seemed like they were looking.
And then we get The Bad Batch: finally, the clone show. Maybe we'll get some elaboration on that, or- never mind, let's not talk about it, also Hunter is old, also Rex's position at the forefront of the clone rebellion further confirms that they never found anything because we know he and the men closest to him will have aged exponentially in the next 15ish years.
We're also introduced to three cadets who were transferred from Kamino before its bombardment for further experimentation by the Empire. Based on their height range and other cadets we've seen, let's call them about 13 biologically, or between 6 and 7 chronologically. They have lived their entire lives as a part of a slave army, and even with that purpose no longer ahead of them, the thing they've spent their entire lives building towards, they're still used.
So when they're finally given a chance at a peaceful life on Pabu, that should be... a good thing, right? It is a good thing. It would be an even better thing if current canon had not TOTALLY SWEPT THE AGING THING UNDER THE RUUUUUG these boys are going to grow up around children who aren't clones, finally free to live and be boys, and they are still going to be robbed of those things because they have been altered to be used as products and not human beings. And as far as we know, nobody ever even tries to fix it.
In two years, their peers will be 15 years old. They will be very nearly men grown, but more than ever before, only in body. They will not have an environment structured to feed them as much information and experience as humanly possible to prepare them to be used as weapons. They'll just be living normal, peaceful lives on time that is running out right in front of them. And nobody ever does a thing. They will watch their bodies drift away from the lives that they're living, and the gap will grow wider by the year. If any of them are lucky, they'll see 40.
And let me reiterate, again: as far as we know in current canon, nobody does a thing. Nobody really bothers to try. Yes, we finally get to kind of explore the clones getting their lives back in the form of freedom and rebellion, but they are inherently having it stolen again every second by the Kaminoans and hell, by the Republic that was chill with letting the accelerated aging CONTINUE being coded even after the army was revealed. I am genuinely not too much of a hater of current canon. I do not care that much. But holy shit, this is one of the only things that makes me lose it. The implication that everyone, the clones especially, saw three young boys with their freedom in reach, and decided that their lifespan was just a sad reality, a cruelty better unspoken than rallied against.
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