gffa:THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT ABSOLUTELY MURDERED ME.The episode was explicitly clear that Ahsoka

gffa:THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT ABSOLUTELY MURDERED ME.The episode was explicitly clear that Ahsoka was the one who freed Maul, because she needed a diversion and Maul even brings it up as his final words to her–”You wanted this chaos!”She doesn’t want to kill the clones, because they’re good men, and more importantly she knows about the chips in their heads, she knows that this isn’t their choice, she and Rex are the only ones who know that this isn’t a choice on the clones’ part.  It doesn’t matter that they’re willing to die, she doesn’t want to be the one to kill them.But the thing is, those clones that died?  Died because of Maul.  Because she threw them over ledges or flung their blaster bolts back at them or he dismembered them or crushed them or they died in the ship falling out of hyperspace that he caused.And all of that happened because Ahsoka freed him for a diversion.There are no good choices in this war, there’s no way to avoid death, unless you just lie down and die yourself.  Ahsoka’s lucky (in as much as anyone in this war is lucky) that she only has herself to think of, she doesn’t have a planet being leveraged against her choices, she doesn’t have a bunch of Jedi (including the Padawans, as we see with Caleb and Cal! they both get Obi-Wan’s message about how they can’t go back home) being called back to the Jedi Temple being leveraged against her choices, they don’t have Padawans being gunned down in front of them, like we saw when Bail went to the Temple.Ahsoka and Rex get to choose for themselves, they don’t have to stop the clones from murdering more people, it’s only about themselves.So, she chooses to try not to hurt them.  But she already was the one who unleashed Maul, their deaths at his hands are going to weigh on her because she made that choice because she needed the diversion.  It doesn’t matter that she didn’t do it herself–and, just as what happened to the clones was on Palpatine’s hands, not the Jedi’s hands, what happened to the clones here is on Palpatine’s hands and Maul’s hands, not Ahsoka’s hands–she’s still going to feel like it was her fault, that this is a weight she has to carry.That’s the really brutal thing about the prequels–there’s no choice to be made that’s not either just lying down to die yourself (and thus you cannot protect people who need it) or someone is going to stand in your way, and there’s very, very rarely a way around that, no matter how hard you try.Ahsoka did everything she could to leave those clone troopers alive–and they died anyway because that’s what this war was.  Not even the droids that chose to help Ahsoka, more weights on her conscience that she doesn’t deserve, because she didn’t pull the trigger, because they were there for her. -- source link

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