The treatment of Clones is just weird in Disney Canon. In the Bad Batch, the Empire is just weirdly fucking eager to throw out the completely devoted, brainwashed super soldiers and replace them with far less experienced, far less efficient and far less loyal conscripts who'd probably cost more in the long run than maintaining the clones.
Again, this is Filoni trying to wipe away nuance and make the Empire into unappealing idiots. He's already made them into clowns in Rebels and the Mandalorian, now he seeks to remove any nuance with the Empire and just make them all jerks, even though if Crosshair was in the OG canon, he'd wind up in the 501st Legion because of his skills, and he'd probably be honored by Vader and the Emperor for his dedication to duty and his efficiency. But in the new canon, it's opposite day, so dumb officer twits who can't get shit done treat effective and loyal soldiers like shit because they're the bad guys and you're meant to hate them. This feels less like a lived-in world with people who have realistic motivations, and more like a cartoon for a four-year-old. It's even more childish than TCW.
Because again, Filoni hates Empire fans, and he has to attack Empire fans, because every other faction has been deconstructed to hell and back and proved to be useless in the new canon. The Jedi? Hypocritical, corrupt fuck-ups who deserved to be annihilated. That's what Dooku and Ahsoka's stories show us in the new canon, and that's why they're the WOKE ones who left the Jedi. The Mandalorians? Idiots who fight each other, leading to the destruction of their homeworld. They even have stupid rules that either allow the enemy to manipulate them (trial by combat) or are downright idiotic (the Creed of the Children of the Watch). The Alliance to Restore the Republic? Useless twits whose fight against the Empire accomplished nothing, since an even stronger Empire comes to power in the Sequel Trilogy right under their noses; the First Order, which annihilates the Alliance's New Republic in a single blow. Every faction worth talking about has been undressed and exposed as fools, and now, it's the Empire's turn.
They are unwilling to build up a faction for the people to like and be inspired by, so they'll just tear the existing factions down, be they Jedi, Rebels, Mandos, or Imperials. Which is funny, since these morons also sell toys of these guys, yet they want us to see these people as fuck-ups, assholes, or clowns.
To be fair, that was some random depot in the middle of fucking nowhere, you're not going to have your best and brightest in a place like that.
Even so. The officers should at least show some minor respect for the clones, since they're human. I'd expect these officers to hate aliens instead.
The reason Palpatine used a clone army is because it's incredibly expensive to do so and that means that the creation of an army would also result in a massive economic crisis in which he could accrue even more emergency powers and once he had full control the Clones weren't need anymore, though in that case the brass should be given the memo that the clones are being replaced so they might as well use them up before they'll need pensions, which would have the added bonus of an army of experienced yet disposable soldiers that the Empire could throw at any Seperatist holdout or revolt against their rule. Filoni's favouritism and immaturity prevent him from realising this and so the Empire are a bunch of dumb meanie-heads.
A smarter writer could've written a more nuanced plot based on how the Empire adapts Stormtroopers because of how freaked out the galaxy would be at Order 66. All of a sudden, these clones who have served for years with the Jedi frag them at a moment's notice? Because of what some politician on Coruscant told them to do? And these clones all came from some artificial environment, which would make the galaxy wary of them. You can have plots where many Mid-Rim and Outer Rim worlds do not react positively to the clone presence in their lands, and some even see them as hostile occupying armies, since they don't know these people. Riots start to flare up in the rim worlds, and there's just not enough clones to keep them quiet, especially with some clone units still occupied with fighting Separatist holdouts and occupying Separatist worlds with hostile populations.
Palpatine reacts to this by killing two birds with one stone, opening up the Stormtrooper corps to allow recruitment from local populations, which then opens up more jobs for rimworld yokels and serves to put the people of the galaxy at ease, when they start seeing their neighbors, brothers, and fathers patrolling their streets alongside the clones. You can even have it so that the clones go along with it due to them being promoted to officer-class, with many clones becoming squad leaders for birth-born Stormtroopers, while others become drill sergeants who whip the recruits into shape.
They should've gone with what Rampart originally proposed with Project War Mantle, where experienced clones pass on their skills to a new generation of loyal soldiers recruited by the government. The only negative part is that the clones do what we see Crosshair did back on Onderon; they impose the brutal "good soldiers follow orders" upon the new recruits, which would explain why later soldiers are OK with committing war crimes, because the clones taught them to. But given that Filoni gave the clones the "DINDU NUFFIN" treatment, he obviously couldn't do that, since the clones that he turned into heroes in TCW can't possibly become villains, now can they?
Again, it's a morality play being told to a fucking four-year-old, as opposed to the movies, where even fucking Palpatine scores some sympathy points in the PT because the government he's a part of in TPM is basically a mix between the ineffective UN and fucking Somalia, which would explain why even the evil politician/space wizards who can just mooch of the system like parasites for their whole lives would risk everything to create the Empire just to instill some order in that broken galaxy........
I mean that the show is trying to say she's more deserving of it because she can wield it better whereas Din's barely been able to hold it up so far. Seems a bit weird for her to lose it, have everyone ghost her and lose power only to get it back again. Then again, status quo and all that.
My point exactly. It seems that the arc the show is headed to is make her worthy to wield it, and for Din to just give it up to her, either willingly, or by fighting her and losing on purpose so she can claim it fair and square.
