I had envisioned the clones as actual people . Brainwashed a lot of them , anyway , but still people . And yes , it should be morally reprehensible to treat them as expendable . I forgot to mentionthe Empire doesn ' t use clones , not publicly anyway . In the EU books cloning was banned , full stop , when the Empire rose to power , ostensibly to prevent another Clone War . Your comments on the episodes are well taken . Like I said , my old manuscripts are probably lost and I ' m just roughly going over what I remember from them . I ' m also not a writer or filmmaker so these ideas are coming from a complete amateur and I have no idea if they ' d actually translate to the big screen . As for Anakin falling to the dark side , sure there can be an event that serves as the last straw but I wanted to avoid the idea that Anakin turned to the dark side out of desperation or rage . ObiWan said that Vader was seduced by the dark side of the force which I interpreted as Anakin becoming convinced that the dark side gave what he wantedin this case , the power to never be a victim again and establish a government which could put down destructive rebellions .